Christopher B. Zeichmann @cbzeichmann.bsky.social biblical scholar and comic book enthusiast (he/they)
https://torontomu.academia.edu/ChristopherZeichmann
@lolobeansy.bsky.social @lolobeansy.bsky.social 
Dr. Jimmy Hoke @jimmyhoke.com AKA QueerBibleNerd
www.jimmyhoke.com
Queer Feminist New Testament Scholar
Author: Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and Romans: Under God? (https://cart.sbl-site.org/books/064531P)
Creator: Queering the Lectionary (patreon.com/queerlectionary)
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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.
Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social I host Unscripted Moments: A Podcast About Propagandhi, The Classical Ideas Podcast, and like to ride my bike. I live in Buffalo and I'm from Missouri.
https://linktr.ee/UnscriptedMomentst
@rebeccathewolfe.bsky.social @rebeccathewolfe.bsky.social Sociologist of mental health, the body, gender, and labor.
Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion & Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. Mahabharata & Bollywood & Star Wars Fan. Dog Mom. she/her/hers
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/
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
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Tazeen M. Ali @tazeenmali.bsky.social scholar of islam & gender in the US • currently writing on US & UK Muslims on TV • author of The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam NYUP • she/her • views are my own
Jacob Barrett @jakebarrett25.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill | Thinking about Religion, Sex, and Governance | Host at New Books Network - Religion | All Taylor Swift opinions are my own
https://thereluctantamericanist.com
Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me National Reporter for Religion News Service. "Workaday writer." — The New Yorker. Author of "American Prophets," a book on the religious left. Tips? Try me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Website: jackjenkins.me
Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social Contributing writer, TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sarahposner
Host, Reign of Error podcast: https://www.axismundi.us/podcasts/reign-of-error
Author, Unholy
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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social Senior writer, Intelligencer/New York Magazine. Bible Bonkers professional
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social Critic @nytimes.com. The kind of girl who goes to a late movie in the middle of the week, I'm crazy. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (paperback out now!), SALTY (2022), AFTERGLOW (forthcoming). Teaching at NYU XE.
Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social National correspondent at The New York Times covering religion, faith and values. ~Texas~. Ruth.Graham@nytimes.com
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian
ContrarianNews.org
Portland, Oregon
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Natalie Fertig @natsfert.bsky.social Writing about America’s states for POLITICO | 🌲In D.C., from the other Washington 🏔️ | Jesus fan, small town kid | Alum of McClatchy, CUNY Jschool, Portland State University • nfertig@politico.com
huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social “guards, seize he/him!”
managing editor @sojo.net.
nyc
Sewell Chan @sewell.bsky.social Journalist
Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social Writer/doodler
Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social Journalist covering the right. Author of The Child Catchers & Quiverfull. Writing in various places.
kathrynajoyce@gmail.com
Signal: kathrynajoyce.01
mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com i'm a very religious religion journalist. (news editor @sojo.net / writing a biography of Clarence Jordan)
based in Chicago
Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social New Yorker executive editor; author of “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America” from Doubleday.
Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social Formerly: Crank theologian known as pastordan
Now: A nice guy, actually
Sam Kestenbaum @skestenbaum.bsky.social Journalist covering religious life in America
www.samkestenbaum.com
Jonathan Merritt @jonathanmerritt.bsky.social Author | Columnist | Uncle | New Yorker 
Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social National writer Religion News Service. New grandad. Author of Reorganized Religion. Enthusiastic Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Sci-Fi fan. Ridiculously Gregarious 
Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social Covering religion and politics in Germany as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship.
Past: Religion reporter at The Tennessean. From New England to D.C. to Colorado to Tennessee.
Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social Senior news editor | Christianity Today
ebelz@christianitytoday.com
📍NYC and from the mountains of NC
fan of baseball, chess, McDonald’s apple pie. Opinions mine.
Daniel Burke @burke13.bsky.social Senior Editor of Religion & Spirituality @NPR. Past lives @CNN and @RNS. Co-wrote a new biography of Pope Leo XIV. Find me here: https://danielburke.org/
Kevin Clarke @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social Chief correspondent, America Media. Send me tips and pitches at clarke@americamedia.org: www.americamagazine.org/dispatches
Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social Once and future journalist • Religion, politics, gender • Alum: TIME, Yahoo, Washington Monthly, Harvard Divinity, University of Michigan
Heather Greene @heathergreene01.bsky.social editor. journalist. witch. author of "Lights, Camera, Witchcraft" Byline:
@religionnewssvc, @religionunplugged. Acquisitions Editor: Llewellyn Worldwide. Co-Founder of Mystic South Conference. Co-Host Podcast: Witch's Movie Coven.
Kathryn Post @kathrynpost.bsky.social National Reporter for Religion News Service. I cover exvangelicals and religious 'nones,' Christian higher ed., abuse and religious trauma, religion and culture. Find me on Signal: KathrynPost.08 https://religionnews.com/author/kathryn-post
@yonat.bsky.social @yonat.bsky.social Religion nerd. @RNS
Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social "I don't need an agenda — I just tell the truth. Let it off the leash and don't touch it. It knows what to do."
Investigative reporter covering immigration + more at CT Insider.
New Haven now; Athens, Ga., always.
Signal: jeaton.04
Cathleen Falsani @godgrrl.bsky.social Author | Creative consultant | Occasional journalist |
Alumna @chicago.suntimes.com @sojo.net @rns.org OCRegister et al | U.S. ex-pat in rural Ireland
Porfolio: clippings.me/cathleenfalsani
Substack: Falsani.com
Biz: SinnersAndSaintsCreative.com
Tiffany Stanley @tiffanystanley.bsky.social Associated Press editor & reporter on the global religion team
RNS @rns.org Covering the world of religion. https://rns.org
National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social National Catholic Reporter: Bringing you independent reporting on the Catholic church and justice issues since 1964.
Roxanne Stone @roxyleestone.bsky.social 🗞executive editor, Religion News Service (@rns.org) | 🎙co-host, #SavedbytheCity podcast with KatelynBeaty
BrianFragaNCR @bfragancr.bsky.social Staff reporter for
@ncronline, covering news in the Catholic Church. Portuguese-American, US Army veteran, Boston sports fan. News tips: bfraga@ncronline.org
Betsy Shirley @betsyshirley.bsky.social Editor in chief at Sojourners.
Sarah Stankorb @sarahstankorb.bsky.social Journo and author:
Disobedient Women (Nat. best seller)
FORTHCOMING 📕: Damned If She Does: Why Women Quit Church & What It Means for the Future of Religion
I cover religion, politics & gender sarahstankorb.substack.com | Insta/Threads: @sarahstankorb
Mary Gladstone @marygladstone.bsky.social Freelance editor with clients and interests ranging from religion/faith in public life to national security. Nature enthusiast, dog lover, fair-to-middling pickleball player.
Sarah McCammon @sarahmccammon.bsky.social Host, ‘Unmoderated’ Podcast
Senior Fellow, Third Way
Former NPR Political Correspondent + Co-host, NPR Politics Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller, ‘The Exvangelicals’
Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social Money, Lies, and God & other books
Katherinestewart.me, https://substack.com/@katherinestewartbooks
Media & speaking requests contact goodnewskatherine@gmail.com
@paulodonnellrns.bsky.social @paulodonnellrns.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, RNS
Kaya Burgess | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 @kayaburgess.bsky.social Science Correspondent & Religious Affairs Correspondent at The Times of London | Shortlisted for Specialist Journalist of the Year for religion work at the 2024 Press Awards and for Science Journalist of the Year in 2025 and 2026 | My account
@clairegiangrave.bsky.social @clairegiangrave.bsky.social 
Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org Vatican correspondent for Reuters. I travel with the pope sometimes. Dual US/EU national. Web: joshmcelwee.org.
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
https://aftermath.site/
Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social Journalist. Historian. Church deacon. Raising cats, chickens, and bees in Appalachia.
Richa Karmarkar @richakarma.bsky.social Reporter @ Religion News Service
Phoebe Petrovic @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social now: researcher chronicling threats to democracy @ Documented. then: investigative reporter @ Wisconsin Watch & ProPublica fellow. send me tips about the anti-LGBTQ movement or authoritarianism on signal: phoebe.411
J. Woodward @jwoodward.bsky.social 
Deborah Caldwell @djkcaldwell.bsky.social CEO of @ReligionNewsFdn, Publisher of @RNS. Previously @TimeInc, including @Money @Fortune. North Stars: fact-based journalism, the power of pluralism, connecting people=greater understanding, rainbows, unicorns, and kitties.
Jackie Hajdenberg @drjackiemrshajd.bsky.social Reporter at JTA covering Jewish news.
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
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
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.