Pop Culture & Theology (& Religion, too) @popandtheology.bsky.social The Bloomsbury Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/theology-religion-and-pop-culture/
Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social Death Scholar. Book Blogger. Co-host the Death Studies Podcast. I review books on death, dying and the dead. Dutchie 🇳🇱 living in Finland 🇫🇮 See: deadgoodreading.com
@cmnd.bsky.social @cmnd.bsky.social
Charlotte Johnson @revcharjohnson.bsky.social Episcopal priest, spiritual director, reader, knitter, and lover of mapless travel. She/her.
www.revcharlottejohnson.com is my spiritual direction site.
Sabina Ali @sabinawearsblack.bsky.social she/her. PhD candidate, religion, race, and settler colonialism. union member. Green Party organizer. free Palestine 🍉
The Center for the Study of Evangelicalism @cse-uccs.bsky.social CSE @ UCCS
Research center for the academic study of evangelicalism.
Free public programs featuring authors & scholars.
📍Colorado Springs
The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com New England's leading source for breaking news and analysis.
bostonglobe.com
Candi K. Cann @ckcann.bsky.social
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social Systematic Theologian sojourning in Texas.
Pics of dogs and foster dogs.
Alex Istok @alexistok.bsky.social Classics PhD. Teaching at Samford University. Writing about early Christian apologies and Roman legal spaces (real + imagined).
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Joseph (Joe) K. Gordon @josephkgordon.bsky.social Prof of Theology, certified Tennessee Naturalist, Southern Appalachian Naturalist, Master Herpetologist, and Venomous Snake Training (Lvls 1 & 2). Scholarship and snakes. Views mine.
josephkgordon.hcommons.org
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; PhD from UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
Dr. Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social PhD Hebrew Bible, newly minted
Scholar of race, class and gender
Anarchist
Any pronouns
Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social Hebrew Bible professor/priest, author: Daughters of Miriam, Womanist Midrash, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Commentary:Nah|Hab|Zec, Veteran, Cat property #BlackSky wilgafney.com
Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social Theologian writing a book on the political theology of the New Apostolic Reformation. Websites: https://stephenwaldron.substack.com/
theologyandsociety.com
Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar, Organizational Entrepreneur. My views however misguided, are always my own. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social settler theologian finishing a book on Bonhoeffer, and starting one against AI. Lifelong fan of #LFC and #Canucks. he/him
🎬 http://letterboxd.com/joncoutts
✍️ http://thissideofsunday.blogspot.com
Mithos @mithos343.bsky.social passionate about history, religion, trivia, game shows, cosplay. I've survived things you wouldn't believe. I write horror and I'm really bad at video games
Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social PhD, scholar of Hebrew Bible and ancient eastern Mediterranean, feminist, settler-Canadian. http://christine-mitchell.ca
Personal site.- B Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social PhD in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East from Brandeis, postdoc at Stanford. Interests in disability, myth, economics, and materiality. More at www.blindscholar.com.
Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social Winnipeg Enthusiast. Noted idiot. In the war on cars.
linktr.ee/rkturnbull
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social American Studies PhDStudent: squeamishly fascinated by religion, capitalism, energy/environment, critical regionalism.
Mom of 2 young adults, 2 cats, about 102 plants.
God-stalker. Grace-freak. Rebel. Union member.
Cats, coffee, chocolate, cheese, chile
CJ Schmidt (he/him) @cjosephus.bsky.social historian of (late) ancient Mediterranean religion + medicine | PhD dropout | #FirstGen | #Neurodivergent | #SOTL + pedagogy nerd | horror aficionado | Whovian | washed-up lacrosse player 🥍 | @vox-magica.bsky.social stan | 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇮🇹 (Rome)
Phil Thomas @philthomas.bsky.social Father, Husband, Theologian, Gardener, Reader, Author ("Hope for A Tree" and "In A Vision of the Night") Low-level Theological Educator
Esther Brownsmith, PhD @brownsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Dayton. Studying dead languages and living ideas. Interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, fanfic theory, and accessible, liberatory pedagogy. She/her.
Jason Pudlo @jasonpudlo.bsky.social Religion, environment, and disaster researcher. Public administration professor. Mountains, then prairie, now pirate coast.
(My posts most certainly do not represent the views of my employer)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4123-8413
Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology.
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights
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Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
Bob Cornwall @drbobcornwall.bsky.social Disciples of Christ minister-at-large, ecumenist, author, and historical theologian. I blog at https://www.bobcornwall.com/
Jimmy Parks @jimmyparks.bsky.social I prefer to be in the mountains, but usually I’m behind a computer. Senior Data Curator @Logos. I’m interested in post-classical Greek and the linguistic tools of the digital humanities.
Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social I care about ideas doing work in the world
Professional humanist and book editing person
Seeking to enter by the narrow gate.
Religion | History | Indigeneity | Music | Sport
MN born NC by choice
Always #GDTBATH | #DurhamNC #BullCity
Laura Duhan-Kaplan @onsophiastreet.bsky.social Rabbi Professor Dean. Recovering philosopher. Reluctant singer. Cat & crow fan. Recent Book: Biblical Animals http://amzn.to/3j1ftQD. Blog: www.sophiastreet.com
Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him.
“Read some fucking apocrypha.”
https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk
Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social Ph.D. Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Black Lives Matter. Views expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer.
he/him
Nichole M. Flores @nicholemflores.bsky.social Associate professor of religious studies at UVA. Author of The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (Georgetown 2021). Writing a book on Advent & Christian political imagination. Esposa de @jamesdarynhenry, mamá of 2.- A Adele Reinhartz @adeler.bsky.social I work on New Testament, in relation to Judaism, with sidelines in film studies and Holocaust memoirs.
Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. I'm probably in my camper.
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Chris Jones @profchrismjones.bsky.social Topekan. Religion professor. Teacher. I study Hebrew Bible, pedagogy, and trauma.
Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social PhD in queer & trans studies in religion @UCRiverside | Lecturer in LGBTQ studies @SDSU | lived religion, ethics, gender, sexuality, religion, pop culture, practical theology | sometimes tall ships and nerdy things | https://www.transgendercatholics.com
AAR/SBL Women's Caucus @aarwomenscaucus.bsky.social The Women’s Caucus is dedicated to representing the concerns of women in the AAR/SBL. We aim to provide networking possibilities among women and to foster a culture of collaboration and mentoring among women in Religious Studies and sister programs.
Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social “Crypto-liberal Laudian.”
Episcopal priest, cat feeder, ballroom dancer. Spent 15 years toiling in the fields of academe: teaching religious studies and researching early modern religious history.
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Daniel C. Smith @dcsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Writing on bodies, rituals, and social history in the Roman Empire
Brandon Massey @mbrandonmassey.bsky.social PhD NT and Early Christianity | Independent Scholar | Historical Jesus | History of Scholarship | Synoptic Gospels | https://hcommons.org/members/brandonmassey/
Erin Galgay Walsh @eringwalsh.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social Settler. Religion, media, & culture scholar. Writing on digital hate & extremism, ritual, & Hindu/tva publics. Animal lover, anti-caste, anti-racist, anti-hate, anti-fascist. No response to trolls. RP ⍯ Endorsement; BLM, FREE PALESTINE
all posts personal
Sam Freney @freney.org Nerd. Also: translation consultant at BSA, NT PhD, frisbee player, musician, and that coffee guy. Interested in many languages.
Andrew Krinks @andrewkrinks.bsky.social Educator, writer & movement builder at intersection of religion, race, carcerality & abolition. Book: White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism & the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization (NYU Press 2024). Nashville, TN. linktr.ee/andrewkrinks
Ryan Halloran, Ph.D. @halloranphd.bsky.social He/Him | Religion Ph.D. from @temple.edu | Researches Catholicism, Masculinity, & Sports in 20th c. U.S. | Philly Sports fanatic | History geek
Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools.
https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Sissel.Undheim
Paulina (Paula) Kolata @paulakolata.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, US. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food.
Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com Associate Professor and Director of Anglican Formation and Studies at the Vancouver School of Theology
PhD in theology from St Mike’s, Toronto. History of exegesis, ecclesiology, sacraments, etc. Anglican priest.
charlesmeeks.com
Steven M. Vose @thejainguy.bsky.social Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Chair of Jain Studies, Dept of History, CU Denver. Book: Reimagining #Jainism in Islamic #India (forth., Routledge). Religion, Politics, Boston sports. He/Him. Anti-fascist. Mainer.
collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social theological educator posting about god, bible, climate, transit | he/him | houston
www.fuller.edu/faculty/collin-cornell/
Leslie Baynes @lesliebaynes.bsky.social Assoc. prof of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at Missouri State University. My new book forthcoming from Eerdmans: Between Interpretation and Imagination: C. S. Lewis and the Bible (2025). #academicbluesky
Bethany Grainger @bethanyjoanna.bsky.social Ph.D. in New Testament, Wheaton College | Female patronage & benefaction in Greco-Roman world & Southern Levant | Epigraphy & Material Culture
Jennifer Guo @jenniferguo.bsky.social PhD candidate in Christianity & Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame
Rebecca Janzen @rebeccacsjanzen.bsky.social Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Deutsches Bergbau Museum (2025-2027). Views my own.
Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social Displaced Southerner. Historian of American religion, gender, women’s ordination, & Methodism. Ordained UMC Deacon. BU Theology PhD. Perkins/SMU Faculty. UAB Blazer alum. ❤️: Cuppas, BBQ, porchsits, southern things, cats.
Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social US Religious Historian with focus on MBC (migration, borders, citizenship), Asian America, US Imperialism | PhD Candidate @Harvard Religion & Fellow @Weatherhead | Every Thu.@BOS.Symphony | Reading Now:📚 How Our Days Became Numbered
🔗 seokweonjeon.com
Nicole Oesterreich @noester.bsky.social PhD NT Studies, Research team leader of Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti digital: cjhnt-info.saw-leipzig.de | 2nd temple literature, NT within Judaism, cognitive Studies/emotions | #AcademicMum of 2, sometimes preaching 🏳️🌈-Ally
Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social Historian of religion and politics in the US specializing in Gilded Age and Progressive Era, reform movements, and religious debates about American democracy.
Views are my own, not my employer’s. Likes and reposts are not endorsements.
Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social librarian
ritual studies, phenomenology of religion, queer theology
also: hockey, fiber arts, pugs, yoga
keeganosinski.com
stschorey @stschorey.bsky.social writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
Chris Miller @cmillerphd.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow with the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto
Studying death, dying, and nonreligion
https://chrismiller.ca/
becky hammon’s crucifix @real-point-god.bsky.social glory to (the point) god for the #wnba. spreading the good news about women’s basketball + eating the rich.
Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
She/her.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Emily Gathergood @emilygathergood.bsky.social New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, embodiment. Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK.
Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social Historian of transnational politics & religion between the US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, @histcatmex.bsky.social. Social Media Officer, @iehs.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie.
https://nathanellstrand.com/
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social #BLM | Professor in Mountains of NC | Nerd about Religious Studies - Mediterranean Antiquity | I study how ancient and modern Christians imagine history | Cycling | he/him | Writes @RDispatches | OpinionsMine
Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social HB/OT PhD; all things Bible, trauma, feminism, and migration.
David Shervington @dshervington.bsky.social Publishing Director at Hymns Ancient & Modern (including SCM Press and Canterbury Press); Licenced Lay Minister; cricket badger. Post on a heady and unhinged mix of topics.
Ryan Collman @ryancollman.bsky.social NT PhD (Edinburgh) | Early Judaism, Circumcision, Paul, Early Christianity |
Check out my book with De Gruyter
Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social Christian Ethics & Women Gender Sexuality Prof-Sartorial Scholar-Pop Culture Enthusiast-Couch Potato Commentator-Funny girl, Soca Lover, Cerebral Carnivalist 🇯🇲
FAMU 🐍 Emory 🦅
*Don’t need no holleration in my DMs*
Thorn Mooney @thornthewitch.bsky.social Religious Studies PhD candidate: paranormal, secularism, magic, spiritualism, ethnography. Lit MA. Publishing production day job. Witch author, Gard priestess, guitarist, fountain pen person, Swiftie, probably a werewolf.
https://linktr.ee/thornthewitch
Jessica Tinklenberg @drtink.bsky.social Executive Director, Pima Community College Teaching and Learning Center. Former Director, University of the Pacific CTL and Claremont Colleges CTL. Mama and Wife and Dog Wrangler.
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
Dr. Nick Elder @nickelder.bsky.social Assoc Prof of NT | Ancient Media | Papyri | Positive Vibes Critical Pedagogy | Un/Specs Grading | 2000–2020s Dad Rock | Midwesterner
Joel Baden @joelbaden.bsky.social Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale University.
Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
Joel Mayward @jmayward.bsky.social Associate Professor of Christian Ministries, Theology, and Cinematic Arts @ George Fox University, OR • PhD, St Andrews • Pastor-Theologian • 🍅 approved Film Critic • Author (books on Christopher Nolan, Sufjan Stevens, Dardenne brothers) • Human (he/him)
Andy Rowell @andyrowell.bsky.social Ministry Leadership professor at Bethel Seminary. Learner. Former coach. Three kids in high school and college. Wife pastors at City Church in Minneapolis. andyrowell.net
Brandy Daniels @brandydaniels.bsky.social Assistant Prof. Political theology, queer-feminist theory, ethics. Skilled procrastinator. Mostly re-posts…
PJ Wilson @pjwils.bsky.social PhD candidate in NT & Christian Origins (migration & Acts) at the University of Edinburgh § coordinating refugee and asylum seeker support projects with the Naz § usual caveats: views are my own, etc.
J. Andrew Edwards @jaedwards.bsky.social academic book editor (UVA Press) | digital content producer (Society of Christian Ethics) | background in theology & religious ethics (Toronto, St Andrews, & Union RVA) | jazz aficionado & bassist | haggis chef
@levenda.bsky.social @levenda.bsky.social
@d-b-oblivion.bsky.social @d-b-oblivion.bsky.social 28
Pan 🏳️🌈
Trying to be a Writer.
Both Personal and NSFW account. No seriously, I'm an unapologetically horny bastard. Minors DNI. Will repost NSFW stuff from time to time.
Authoritarianism does not have many forms, but wears many masks.
Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religion, St Mary’s University, Calgary (Treaty 7 territory). Eco-Religious Studies and Philosophy Scholar. Opinions are my own. Shares ≠ endorsements. (he/him)
Gregory M. Clines, PhD @gregoryclines.bsky.social South Asian Religions, Jain Studies, Sanskrit Literature. Assistant professor Trinity University.