Sam Kestenbaum
skestenbaum.bsky.social
Sam Kestenbaum
@skestenbaum.bsky.social
Journalist covering religious life in America

www.samkestenbaum.com
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NARRATIVE STORYTELLING, DIV 3

Honoring a single story told with literary flair.

🥇 1st Place: @mrdanzak.bsky.social
🥈 2nd Place: @skestenbaum.bsky.social
🥉 3rd Place: Staff, @bloombergbusiness.bsky.social
🏅 Honorable Mention: @wordbobby.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
For LA: a one-of-a-kind show this month, with demons, ghouls and much-needed deliverance… A special live reading, from my Harper’s story, with music, actors, puppetry, poetry, short film, and more Nihil & Friends present ART IS LIFE IS ART: RED HOT Variety Show! www.eventbrite.com/e/nihil-frie...
April 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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On messianic soundscapes, by @skestenbaum.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Hollywood ugliness, a Beckett biopic, cult music, the sly devices of the English sentence, and an increasingly timely stand-up special — five Mentions from @izzyampil.bsky.social, Dimitris Passas, @skestenbaum.bsky.social, Tanner Stening, and @cryinmeehan.bsky.social

www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
www.thedriftmag.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A mini review from me in the new issue of @thedrift-mag.bsky.social… on a series of outré musical soundscapes made by a pyramid-loving, deity-channeling New Agey shaman www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...
December 23, 2024 at 10:55 PM
I trekked up a crumbling California hill to sit under a crystal-studded pyramid and bask in the spacey, far-flung soundscapes of a New Age shaman… a (very) short culty music review of mine in the new issue
December 19, 2024 at 12:46 AM
More storage digging
December 5, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Going through the storage
December 2, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Headed to San Diego? I’ll be at the American Academy of Religion meeting this weekend, speaking on three panels
November 22, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Many have written about Mt. Juliet pastor Greg Locke's emerging mass deliverance ministry. But only @skestenbaum.bsky.social immersed himself in the Locke Media/Demon Slayers apparatus and came out with this eloquently written narrative for Harpers: harpers.org/archive/2024...
The Demon Slayers, by Sam Kestenbaum
The new age of American exorcisms
harpers.org
July 30, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Headed to my alma mater (!) next week to deliver the annual Martin Lecture in Religion ✍️ If you’re in the Wheaton area, info here
February 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
February 2, 2024 at 4:53 AM