David Patterson @monogramdp.bsky.social Literary Agent. Recommendation Engine. Paid for with words/and tended with love. 🇵🇷
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
People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com Mom 'n pop bookshop in downtown Takoma Park, MD. New books, hot zines, and Sunday storytimes. We're DC City Paper's Best Bookstore of 2026, 2025 and 2024. 👍 See upcoming events and membership options here: https://wfr.bio/peoplesbook
The Immanent Frame (SSRC) @immanentframe.bsky.social The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. It was founded in October 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program @religionssrc.bsky.social.
Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com Democratic Socialist, Unapologetically Snarky, and I like my Oxford commas | he/him | Professional site: https://ineedufg.com/agent/79DFC8A6
Jessica Mesman @jessicamesman.bsky.social Senior editor of The Christian Century
Writer specializing in religion and culture
Amanda Hernandez, Ph.D @uhmanduhdawn.bsky.social she/her | assistant professor of sociology Southwestern University | feminism, sexism, racism, and US Christianity | author of The Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States
https://sites.google.com/view/amandadhernandez/
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
KtB Magazine @ktbuddhamag.bsky.social An online literary magazine of religion, culture, and politics, founded in 2000. www.killingthebuddha.com- R @radicalcraft.bsky.social @radicalcraft.bsky.social
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com Working at the intersection of art and neuroscience. Exploring sleep, memory, and perception.
🗓️ Nocturnal Worlds Opens Oct 1 @ Waterstone Gallery, PDX
waterstonegallery.com
🦋 Nature explorer & 🍄🟫 mushroom forager
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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner.
https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
Practical Astros ⚕️ @practicalastros.bsky.social Timing is Everything ✨Astrologer 🐉 Tarotista 🫧 Lucid Dreamer🤘 Christa Joy ⛩️
https://youtube.com/@practicalastros?si=76o9jEoVQoToAiEV
https://open.substack.com/pub/practicalastros
Beer Study Carrboro @beerstudy.bsky.social Bottle shop/bar that is open in its new spot in Carrboro. Contact us for any questions
Brandon Bayne @bbayne.bsky.social Historian | Religious Studies | Indigenous Studies | UNC Chapel Hill
Matthew J. Smith @smithmj303.bsky.social I study and teach on race religion sexuality ecology & science in the U.S. empire.
On the territory of the Anishinaabeg, Three Fires Confederacy.
Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com Freelance journalist in North Carolina who writes longform stories about political, social, and environmental issues. Web site: http://barryyeoman.com. Newsletter: http://barry-yeoman.beehiiv.com. Teaching: Duke University.
@lisahowley.bsky.social @lisahowley.bsky.social 
Smalljones aka Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social No longer a person of interest.
@smalljones on most social networks.
Something Wonderful (2021), Something Necessary (2024)
Recent publications: smalljones.com
April & The Commons @april-cc-commons.bsky.social APRIL advocates for social justice and inter-religious work. Checkout our online magazine “The Commons” and quarterly journal CrossCurrents.
Sonya Posmentier @posypoet.bsky.social 
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social The SSSR is an interdisciplinary academic association that promotes & communicates social scientific research about religious institutions and experiences. Founded in 1949. sssreligion.org Flagship publication: JSSR @jssreligion.bsky.social
Beth Shakman Hurd @bethhurd.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
Elizabethshakmanhurd.com
Sarah Dees @sarahdees.bsky.social Professional nerd. American & Indigenous religions. History of museums + science + politics + race + empire (+ Dolly Parton). Editorial team @ Material Religion. My views. she/her.
Peter Ryan @drpeterryan.bsky.social Sociologist of religion and social movements. Dabbler in creative writing and board games.
Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
Laura Marsh @lauramarsh.bsky.social Literary Editor, The New Republic
Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com)
Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
Rose D'Amora @rosedamora.bsky.social managing editor at The Nation. I'm just lurking.
@lizzyratner.bsky.social @lizzyratner.bsky.social Executive Editor at Jewish Currents. Former Deputy Editor (for print) at The Nation. Always Editor of
@ElieNYC. Tweets my own. She/her/hers
Sarah Rense @sarahrense.bsky.social deputy features editor @ GuardianUS; used to be jezebel + esquire
Joan Greve @joanegreve.bsky.social Comms at the Center for Election Innovation & Research (@electioninnov.bsky.social). Former political journalist. Get in touch: jgreve@electioninnovation.org.
@franlawther.bsky.social @franlawther.bsky.social Digital editor of Guardian US
Jessica Reed @iamjess.bsky.social Head of narrative, The Guardian. I edit US long form and essays. How to pitch me: see below. French. Based in Montana.
‘We can't stop here, this is bat country' - Hunter S Thompson.
Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social senior editor at Guardian US
Kira Lerner @kira-lerner.bsky.social Deputy Washington and democracy editor @us.theguardian.com
Betsy Reed @thebetsy.bsky.social Editor, Guardian US
Jenna Amatulli @ohheyjenna.bsky.social Deputy head of news at The Guardian US. Adjunct professor. Book hoarding New Yorker.
Guardian US @us.theguardian.com With 200 years of history and staff across America and the world, we offer a global perspective on US news.
We keep our fact-based news paywall-free.
Become a Guardian supporter: support.theguardian.com
Jane Greenway Carr, PhD @janegreenway.bsky.social Editor, Writer, Scholar. Alum of CNN Opinion and New America. Co-editor of THE CASE OF LIZZIE BORDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS.
Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social Helping religion scholars communicate with the public since 2018.
www.sacred-writes.org
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
Kaya Oakes @kayaoakes.bsky.social Writer of nonfiction, Oakland kid, faculty in writing at UC Berkeley. Book #6, Not So Sorry, is available now. Ask me why breast cancer sucks. Missives: kayaoakes.substack.com
stschorey @stschorey.bsky.social writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈- A Andrew Ali Aghapour @andrewaa.bsky.social
Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social Writer/doodler
Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social writer and dogsledder, host of story podcast “what to carry, what to burn”
Quince Mountain @quincemountain.bsky.social Adventure Athlete: 1st openly trans person Naked&Afraid/Iditarod - Musher: ’22 Rookie of the Year, Sportsmanship Award, Best Kept Team x2
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.coop/@ntnsndr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social pyrrhic victor, enemy of fun
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
Ben Zeller @zellerben.bsky.social Professor of Religion, scholar of new religious movements, Fulbright Finland alum, cross-country skier, hiker, partner, parent, sometimes-cheesemaker
Religion & the Public Sphere @religionssrc.bsky.social A program of the Social Science Research Council, R&PS fosters research, discussion, and engagement around religion, secularism, spirituality, and belief. Publisher of online publications Intersections and @immanentframe.bsky.social.
Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org bringing you religion, culture, and politics since 2008
* award-winning
* independent
* non-profit
* justice-minded
* irreverent
RD is a @praeyesright.bsky.social publication
want to write for RD? check out https://religiondispatches.org/submissions/
Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
https://megan-goodwin.com/design
Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social Historian of U.S. foreign relations, human rights, & religion. Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University. Musician and sci fi fan. 
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social Historian @ UCBerkeley | Author: Enlisting Faith http://tinyurl.com/yyh2p4tq | current project: religious hospitals & conscience rights | sometimes quilts, sometimes climbs | posts my own | she/her
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social Historian.
Author, Methodist Connections: Early American Religion in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (forthcoming, Cornell UP).
Now researching global history of religion + soccer.
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Rachel B. Gross @rachelbgross.bsky.social Studying U.S. Jews and finding religion in unexpected places | Assoc. Prof. at SF State | Author: Beyond the Synagogue | Now: Mary Antin’s spiritual adventures | https://linktr.ee/rachelbgross
Kathryn Gin Lum @kginlum.bsky.social Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
Austin J. Clements @clementsaustinj.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame | PhD ‘26 Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | ASU West alum
Taylor Petrey @taylorpetrey.bsky.social Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College.
Early Christianity, Gender Studies, Mormonism
Jenny Caplan @jennycaplan.bsky.social Associate Professor and Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Sports fan and professional geek.
Author of Funny, You Don't Look Funny
Editor of Wit Happens
drjennifercaplan.com
Peter J. Thuesen @peterjthuesen.bsky.social Historian of American religion. Writing a book on Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing (1895-1970), who was loved more for his humanity than his consistency. Previous books: Tornado God (OUP), Predestination (OUP), In Discordance with the Scriptures (OUP).
Spencer W. McBride @spencerwmcbride.bsky.social Historian & Writer
Gale Kenny @galekenny.bsky.social Historian of US religion // knitter // author of Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire (NYU Press)
Katie Ludlow Rich @katieludlowrich.bsky.social Award winning Historian • Ghostwriter
Centering Mormon women in their history and helping clients tell the stories that matter most—their own. Co-writer Fifty Years of Exponent II.
https://linktr.ee/KatieLudlowRich
AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social Historian, Mother, Redhead.
Author Imperial Zions: Race, Religion, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
Robin Jensen @rsjensen12345.bsky.social Historian, archivist, documents lover. Let's talk Mormon historic print culture, shall we?
Rachel Lindsey, PhD @rmclindsey.bsky.social mom, associate professor of American Religion and Culture at Saint Louis University, lives in STL
wants to read books, lift weights, and hang out with my doggos
Ben Wright @ben-wright.bsky.social Historian. Teacher. Author. Cheesehead. Springnut.
drbenwright.com
Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social Here to talk about all the officially prohibited things: religion, politics, race.
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Kate Carte @kecarte.bsky.social Early Americanist, mom, runner, fiction buff, yarn arts for meditation, but not with much skill.
Daniel Vaca @danielvaca.bsky.social assoc. prof. @ Brown University | author of *Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America* (Harvard, 2019) | writing about religion + inequity + taxes + visions of the common good | danielvaca.com
Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social American historian, religion, environment, pop culture, the South. Author: The Devil's Music (Harvard, 2018). Prof of Am & Brit Studies, Univ of Oslo. Fulbright alumnus.
Paul Harvey @pharvey61.bsky.social History, religion, books, basketball, coffee, yerba mate, wine, music, cats, academia, ongoing bonfire of the humanities. https://paulharvey.org
Max Perry Mueller @maxperrymueller.bsky.social Widower, father, writer.
Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social Ardis E. Parshall - 17 years blogging, 8300+ posts. Century of Black Mormons contributor. Mormon History Association has endowed its Public History Award in my name. Returning history/opinion columnist at the Salt Lake Tribune
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)