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Kelli Midlife Mom @midlifemom.bsky.social Love gardening (roses, orchids and bonsai trees to name a few), nature photography & writing
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Ron James Hampton @rjhamptonjr.bsky.social BlueSky looks like a great place for the Arts.
I thought I would make an account and check in from time to time for inspiration / motivation.
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Oof. @unwelcomeopinion.bsky.social No more forks left to give. I paint so I don't kill people.
Life is mostly absurd, punctuated by profound beauty.
Yes, I ate the last piece of pie, and I'd do it again.
PacificNorthWexican 🌱 🫘💚🐼 is at #ATmosphereConf @mandertang.bsky.social GenX, PacificNorthWexican, Democracy Voter, mom, dog lover, vegan, Atheist, Feminist. Not here to make you comfortable or happy in your horse shit. 🚫 DMS/Crypto
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Matt Evers @mattevers.bsky.social Getting to be quite old - artist (abstract expressionist) - often distracted by toy trains, bug pictures, RC helicopters etc. etc. - Residences Sebastopol and Big Sur - Lifetime spent working on a buzz; no regrets..
Magats Are DESTROYING America @kharmabyavelon.bsky.social Gemoligist jewelry designer Writer Empath Witch of the Woods Sea & Air actress ARMY VET Combat Medic Glamma Homesteader Super Woman
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Mary Beth Bellon @mbbellon.bsky.social
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@revjanetedwards.bsky.social @revjanetedwards.bsky.social Ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1977, schooled in organizing and ministry by the LGBTQIA+ faith community during the constitutional change prompted by the gospel truth that there is no "but" in God's love for all.
Jaymichael48 @jmp1956.bsky.social Rants, humor, photography. Conscientious objector, 1971. Yeah I’m old.
No financial requests please-I’ll be sending out my own soon.
Markfry🍁 @markfry.bsky.social Canadian anti-fascist. Liberal to the core. Diehard Trump hater. Need a shoulder to lean on, I’ll be that guy. 🏳️🌈welcome here. #BlueCrew #BLM #SlavaUkraine #BringBackRoe #climateaction 🚫Porn🚫MAGA🚫Crypto
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Suzanne Minarcine @drsuzannem.bsky.social Storyteller, writer, coach, entrepreneur, RN, artist, avid reader. Happily married to Bob. Cat mom. Former airline pilot. Unapologetically liberal. Fighting for the rights for our children & grandchildren #voteblue #resist #writers 💙💙💙
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David Valley @sonicdave2112.bsky.social Film Composer, Songwriter, Progressive coffee enthusiast and music nerd, Ally to all. No DM's🚫 No crypto🚫
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Rich Weeks @ohshititsrichweeks.bsky.social A work in progress-Lowbrow Liberal-Gen X'er-Boston-Atheist-Dad-husband-NO DM's
Cathy @cathymichelle.bsky.social Thank you to all the friends on Blue sky! I want to express how proud I am of American people taking back our rights our lives by the beautiful example from Bernie Sanders and AOC! Keep it up Americans! With the Truth we will have our justice! No DM's, 🙏
Taste the Biscuit @tastethebiscuit.bsky.social Feminist, SNA, Progressive Democrat, Anti-TERF. Pro-LGBQT. Vegetarian. Artist. Writer. Actor. Traveler. Human Rights proponent. Anti-Fascist.Trans Rights Advocate. Science gal. Psychology, traveler, Maker of music. Poet. Writer.
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Jo Carruthers @jocarruthers.bsky.social Writing a long book on roughness & class in Victorian Britain & a short book on biblical allusion in Victorian Lit; otherwise: Bible & literature, aesthetics & politics; sand & coastlines; teaches Eng Lit at Lancaster Uni, UK. Cat convert. She/her
Rachel J Kirkwood @drkirky.bsky.social Academic library manager-researcher, bi mum, singer, Quaker, European; #DH, languages & linguistics, #QuakerStudies #EarlyModern stuff #metaphor #GoodOmens #DoctorWho #SpeculativeLiterature #fanfic
Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; and our cat. My views.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
Darren Dyck @darrendyck.bsky.social English Prof. Likes words, phrases, sentences. Barely serious.
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint 
Steven M. Foster @drstevenmfoster.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Religion & Politics. Husband to Dr Lynnette, Father to Isaac & Joseph. Human to Gino the Beagle. Associate Lecturer at OpenUniversity. My views, not my employers. #KirkElla #Hull
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Holly Pickett @hollypickett.bsky.social ❤️: Shakespeare, early modern drama, religion, letterpress, linocut
Department Head & Prof of English at W&L
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
Jeff McLain @jeffmclain.bsky.social Lead A Quiet Life | Recovering a rooted Christian way of life through the Lord's Prayer, ancient habits, and simple Jesus communities.
Dad · Writer · Pastor · Doctoral Student
Dr Adrea Johnson @adrearj.bsky.social Early Modern Historian - poetry, theology, & women’s writing | Teach @UFV & Lecturer @ Regent College | Fond of 📚 & 🐝| @adrearj 🇨🇦
Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social librarianship | theology | religious studies | philosophy | book reviewing | #BlackLivesMatter | #STLCards
"the face of (theological) liberalism and creeping infidelity"
https://hcommons.org/members/astout/
Dr Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social PhD in Religious Studies
Living liminally between Yorkshire and Lancashire, fairyologist, jinnologist, supernaturalist, ECR, jejune philosopher, socialist. #TheGreenParty https://open.substack.com/pub/drmericdickson
She/her 🔯☪️✝️🕉️☸️☯️🪯🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🏳️🌈
Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started.
#17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes.
https://elizabethstjohn.substack.com/
www.elizabethjstjohn.com
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @revdrjacquilewis.bsky.social Senior Minister & Public Theologian @Middle Church
Author: Fierce Love; Just Love Story Bible
Convener: Freedom Rising Conference
Love. Period.
Womanist-Love my communities, God, all the peoples & the planet
Wife-Married to best friend John
Gina M Stewart @drgmstewart.bsky.social Faith Leader, Pastor, Preacher, Sister, “Auntie Rev.” Lifelong Learner
CantBeStill @milestribble.bsky.social Professor. Womanist. Servant Leader. Justice seeker. Traveler. Walker. Ocean passion. Foodie. Can’t be Still.
Dr. Melva Sampson @pinkrobedpastor.bsky.social Curator of The Pink Robe Chronicles. Afrocentered. Afrofuturist. Womanist. Virtual Pastor. Professor and Public Theologian with interests in Digital Black Religion.
Rev. Dr. Irie Lynne Session @thedreamstrategist.bsky.social I am a Spiritual Entrepreneur, TEDx Presenter, Award-Winning Minister, Certified CEU Instructor, Author, Pastor, Adjunct Professor, and Womanist Practitioner, with 35 years experience in ministry and social work.
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*
Monica A Coleman @revdrmonica.bsky.social Theologian. Writer. Speaker. I teach people of faith how to understand suffering without questioning God’s love. Learn more at MonicaAColeman.com
Kimberly D Russaw @kdrussaw.bsky.social 
Cassandra G. @publicsquarepastor.bsky.social Pastor in the Public Square | Womanist | Public Theologian| Curator of Black Faith Liberation Spaces| Community Organizer
Kimberlee Johnson @drkleejohnson.bsky.social Flawsome. Educator. Preacher. Activist. Jesus lover. Dean. Organizer. Ministry Leader. Gardener. Loc’d. Black. K-lee.
Maisha Handy @maishaprez.bsky.social Womanist CEO/President, Musician, Collaborative Leader, Pastor, Tootsie’s Mom, Renaissance Woman, Unbox Me! 💜
𝒟𝓇. 𝒦ℯ𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒰. ℱ𝒶𝓇𝓇ℴ𝓌💜 @drkellyfarrow.bsky.social www.DrKellyFarrow.Org
Jennifer Watley Maxell @jwm100.bsky.social Free People, FREE People!
Wife, Mother, Preacher, Teacher, Leadership Consultant, Author, Lover of all thing’s liberative.
Dr. Tamisha A. Tyler @theopoet.bsky.social Theopoet. Lover of people. Professionally unserious.
Natasha L. Robinson, J.D. @nlrobinson.bsky.social Womanist Legalogian
Creator and Curator of Legaleaze Please
👧🏾 G’s Mommy
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Candace Laughinghouse, Ph.D. @drlaughinghouse.bsky.social Anti-Speciesist Ecowomanist Scholar, Musician, Preacher and Friend
Dr. Lisa Allen-McLaurin @therealdrlisa.bsky.social thinker. afrofuturist. womanist. process theologian. worship and music pedagogue. author. abolitionist. comrade in the struggle for transformative liberation.
Indhira M. Udofia, PhD, LCSW @drindyu.bsky.social (She/They) Researcher and Clinician (LCSW). My thoughts are my own. Trust me, my institution does not represent me.
My Day Job: Shaping Feminist & Quare leaders through teaching, jegnaship, & mattering
My life's work: Being a Virgo that betters community
@annemariemingo.bsky.social @annemariemingo.bsky.social Bringing the wisdom and faith of Black women to the academy & the street. Justice is at the core of my work to help folks get free. #Harriet #Ella #MyMama
Leslie D Callahan @fifthpastor.bsky.social I am a friend, parent, and pastor.
BoozyBibleScholar @boozybiblescholar.bsky.social Angela Parker, PhD, Womanist New Testament Scholar, teacher, preacher, trying to make a difference in her corner of the world. I am the author of If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority.
Mitzi Smith @womanistprof67.bsky.social Flora’s Daughter, Author, Professor of Religion (NT), Womanist, Podcaster, Traveler, Stroke Survivor
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social Editor at large for Commonweal magazine; writing at https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/users/mollie-wilson-oreilly-0 and sometimes other places, too. She/her.
kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us working at the intersection of culture, theology & justice. comms professional. nonprofit executive. mission driven consultant. 1881. 1908. Alabama raised me. ATL made me. Thoughts and opinions are mine.
KiaSpeaksAlso.com
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social priest, theologian, teacher, police chaplain, monastic, dog person, New Jersey convert, ham radio operator KE2APB
not in the Epstein files
Courtney Ellis @courtneyellis.bsky.social author. birder. pastor married to a pastor. author of Weathering Change, Looking Up, and Uncluttered. host of The Thing with Feathers podcast, about birds and hope. stubbornly kind.
Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social Reader, writer, dog lover, Ph.D. Most recent book: You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful. Find me on Substack at The Priory.
Susannah Black Roberts @suzania.bsky.social Magazine editor @Plough, married lady, Manhattanite, Anglican
Madison N Pierce @madisonpierce.bsky.social Lecturer in NT and Early Christianity (St Andrews) • NT Editor (@rbecs_org) • Cohost (@TheTwoCities) • PhD (Durham) • Hebrews is my thing. I don't know who wrote it.
https://linktr.ee/madisonpiercephd
Bethany Grainger @bethanyjoanna.bsky.social Ph.D. in New Testament, Wheaton College | Female patronage & benefaction in Greco-Roman world & Southern Levant | Epigraphy & Material Culture
Brandy Daniels @brandydaniels.bsky.social Assistant Prof. Political theology, queer-feminist theory, ethics. Skilled procrastinator. Mostly re-posts…
Carmen Joy Imes @carmenjoyimes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Old Testament, Talbot School of Theology; Author of Bearing God's Name, Being God's Image, and Becoming God's Family. YouTuber: Torah Tuesday.
Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik.bsky.social Farm wife. Mother to 6. Author of "Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted." Co-host of the "Freely Given" podcast.
Kait Dugan @kaitdugan.bsky.social Director, Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary
Love pizza, cats, tv shows, and people who are kind.
Michelle Knight @michelleknight.bsky.social Associate Professor of OT and Semitic Languages at TEDS. PhD from Wheaton College. I geek out about tech and the Former Prophets.
Author of *The Prophet’s Anthem.*
https://linktr.ee/michelle.e.knight
Becky Castle Miller @bcastlemiller.bsky.social Chicagoland PhD student researching emotions in the Gospel of Luke. Dark academia, cats, thrift stores. Whimsical purveyor of ephemera.
Amy Julia Becker @amyjuliabecker.bsky.social Author | Speaker | REIMAGINING: Family Life with Disability • Church Life with Disability • The Good Life | Disability. Faith. Culture. | MDiv, Princeton
https://amyjuliabecker.com/
VanessaL @womanisthbscholar.bsky.social Transition leader in graduate theological education. Author of A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within. Loves the outdoors, traveling, and the colors salmon pink and apple green. 
Emily Richardson @emjric.bsky.social Tired most of the time thanks to #hEDS & #LongCovid
I co-wrote a book on Disability & Church.
Likes reading, words, Disney, Marvel, radio, musicals and funny things.
She/her, but they's OK 👍
Nadya Williams @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social Homeschool mom, historian, author, perpetually sleep-deprived. Writing books, editing book reviews for Mere Orthodoxy. Weekly newsletter: https://nadyawilliams.substack.com/
Ms. RG @ms-rg.bsky.social Mom, friend, teacher, theology nerd. My patron saints are Óscar Romero & Rich Mullins. Suspicious of capitalism. she/her
Katie Sawade Hall @bluesawadeshoes.bsky.social FMC pastor. Keeper of 2 small humans & a golden retriever. Married to a Brit. Waiting patiently for an edit feature. (She/her)
SueJeanne Koh (she/her) @sjkoh.bsky.social Assistant Director of Graduate Futures and Research Engagement at UC Irvine's Humanities Center; scholar and teacher of Christian theology and ethics.
Ellen Richard Vosburg @ellenisbusiness.bsky.social There are too many books in the world and not enough time. Senior Editor of Bibles at Tyndale House Publishers. Anglican postulant. Bible/church nerd.
Jennifer Powell McNutt @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social Rev Dr Prof Mom | FrHistS, Dyrness 🪑Professor of Theology and History of Christianity | 📚 Author (2024) Know the Theologians, The Mary We Forgot, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Reformation | Presby Pastor McNuttshell Ministries