See You at the Pole, the Columbine massacre, and Christianity on campus with Amy Laura Hall

Muscular Christianity and its various forms on the campus

References and suggested readings:

• Amy Laura Hall. 2026. Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump. Bloomsbury.
• Theodore Roosevelt. 1899. The Strenuous Life speech.
• From the vault: [Lawrence] Wright talks to Alec Baldwin about Scientology and Tom Cruise. October 10, 2022.
• Darren Dochuk. 2019. Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. Basic Books.
• Bethany Moreton. 2010. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press.
• Daneil Silliman. 2021. An Evangelical Is Anyone Who Likes Billy Graham: Defining Evangelicalism with Carl Henry and Networks of Trust. Church History, 90(3): 621-643.
• Darren E. Grem. 2014. Christianity Today: J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism. Enterprise and Society, 15(2): 337-379.
• Ahmanson family’s Institute on Religion and Democracy Wiki
• Adam Laats’s research on K12 schools 
• Geoffrey Canada’s Wiki 
• Waiting for Superman trailer on IMDB
• Dana Goldstein. September 23, 2010. Grading Waiting for Superman. The Nation.
• Julie A. Webber. 2002. Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Frank Deford. September 8, 2010. Football Fans Ignore Increasing Violence. NPR.
• Audre Lorde. 1982. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Crossing Press.
• Ayoush Lazikani. 2025. Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing. Yale University Press.
• Amy Laura Hall’s faculty page, Twitter, Bluesky