A shooter killed two children and injured 21 people —three adults in their 80s and 18 children between the ages of 6 and 15—at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis last week. The shots came through a…
Rachel Wagner
Rachel Wagner is Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Ithaca College. Her latest book, Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah (NYU, 2025) charts the myth of the “good guy with a gun,” connecting America’s frontier beginnings with visions of the end of the world.
