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Sam Kestenbaum

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Journalist covering religious life in America

Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2010
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Sam Kestenbaum
1 year
For @Harpers, I join a group of exorcists to stage a mass revival in Tennessee. These are live-streaming, telegenic demonologists, waging spiritual war with the algorithm in mind. And there I was, backstage among the whirring cameras and trembling bodies
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Sam Kestenbaum
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RT @SamBuntz: Society has really left behind the One World, One Love, One People Baha’i inflected ethos of this ice cream. Now, we have ice….
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Sam Kestenbaum
10 days
When I worked on lobster boats, as a young guy, I kept a list of our rituals and superstitions… no pork onboard, no boat shall be painted blue, a certain unutterable number shall not be uttered, whistling brings the bad winds, never praise your catch till the day is done.
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Sam Kestenbaum
15 days
RT @moonandmouth: nature is healing (the girls are identifying as witches instead of catholic, again).
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Sam Kestenbaum
26 days
Got catcalled by a sidewalk psychic…. a sign, an omen.
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Sam Kestenbaum
1 month
Movie night
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
Raise vibrations
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
RT @Harpers: We're hiring a Senior Editor to assign and edit reported features, investigations, essays, and memoir. The position is full-ti….
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
Would love to see ~for fun~ as qualifying/follow-up question for other types of practices too.
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Pew Research Center
2 months
Most Americans who engage in astrology, tarot cards or fortune-telling say they do it for fun, rather than for insights or guidance on life decisions. 🔮 ⭐
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2 months
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SFJ
2 months
🎉 Big congrats to the 2025 Division 2 winners of SFJ’s Excellence-in-Features Awards! 🎉. Nearly 1,000 entries. $300 prizes for 1st place. ✨.SFJ, thanks all who were involved! . Read more here: .
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
RT @jordan_castro2: They're called "takes" because they "take" everything from you. Your mind, your art, your love. And destroy eve….
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
RT @opheliasbathtub: snoring is mark of the beast coded.
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
Disenchantment isn’t real but in this case just maybe a little.
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Sam Kestenbaum
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RT @abndesigns: Taking my They Live glasses on and off but it’s the same thing.
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
Covid changed the mystery schools.
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
RT @AsILayPoasting: aura farming out side my house i said "good evening" he merely replied ". "
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@LAPressClub
LA Press Club
2 months
Congrats finalists of the 67th Southern California Journalism Awards! Join us for the Gala on June 22.at Millennium Biltmore! Get your TICKETS before June 1st for early bird pricing.Q: info@lapressclub.org
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Sam Kestenbaum
2 months
There are sunflowers painted on the pulpit and embroidered on the wall and real ones drooping in a vase, and today’s medium says boy it’s hot! no AC! and he hopes the stifling heat won’t prevent him from bringing forth the spirits as he wipes his brow and rises to his feet.
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Sam Kestenbaum
3 months
RT @notjessewalker: I'm happy for the homegrown Catholics, but I'm glad to see the other American religions getting some stature this week….
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