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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well I am happy to say I did just turn in a manuscript! It’s not a devotional but a memoir and guide to having joy in tough times is set to come out in spring 2028 with HarperOne 🩷🩷 truly — thank you for reading!!

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The way we talk about Mary’s consent MATTERS, because she was not a child — and I need preachers to stop referring to her as such. revlizzie.substack.com/p/could-moth...

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Could Mother Mary Consent?

The Virgin Mary, a Victim? Our Lady + our culture of sexual violence

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh my goodness! I’ve been off bsky for a while so this was delightful to see when I logged back in!! 🩷🩷🩷

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

ME: Lord, I just pray that you send a hedge of protection. GOD: Say less.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Hey #Houston! I’m finally doing a book event in your city, 6pm Monday January 12 at Palmer Episcopal Church! Hope to see y’all beloved babes of God there 🌸 #exvangelical #deconstructing #loveyourneighborchristian #goddidntmakeustohateus

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Turns out my sincerely held religious belief is that LGBTQIA+ couples deserve sacramental access AND legal protection, so I will continue to officiate LGBTQIA+ weddings in Texas!

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Also, this ✨feminist ✨ working mom who adores her husband and kids is really hoping Taylor gets her Wi$h li$t for all the reasons… including that I need a life of a postpartum momgirl album #tloas #swiftie

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

To say that taking joy in family life, raising kids, and loving your partner is inherently “trad wife coded” is exactly what they want you to think. It means the only “legitimate” way to be a family is to adhere to patriarchy and white supremacy. #tloas #wishlist

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

America: demands all women *desire and easily become* mothers **WHILE ALSO** offering absolutely no structural support FOR mothers. It’s an engine of patriarchy that creates a false dichotomy between childfree people & parents that profits on us being divided, instead of being the village.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Honey I am HOMEEEEE … for two book events! See ya 10/3 and 10/4 #CharlotteNC 👑

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A correction: I realize saying “Father in Heaven” is confusing …. Even though I lean towards universal salvation, I’m not trying to claim one way or another where Dobson is. I meant “Heavenly Father” as a name for God & play on parenthood. Clarifying now. Thanks!

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

When James Dobson meets our Father in Heaven, he won’t be spanked the way he taught generations of parents to hurt their kids. But I deeply believe Dobson will be very, very surprised at how very, very wrong he was to do such harm in God’s name.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

No better feeling than walking into a library WITH my kids and asking the delightful librarian if they have my book in their collection … only to find out it’s currently checked out 🥹🥰🤩 #GodDidn’tMakeUstoHateUs

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

It is 8am on Saturday. In motherhood terms, I’ve already lived 6 of my 9 lives for today.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

(This is obviously also true in same gender couples, and with non-birthing parents!)

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

In a country where maternity leave is seen as a luxury, don’t even get me started on how paternity leave is also a women’s health issue. It is a lie that women have to do all the childcare AND work for less pay AND have no inconvenient needs.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Also yt Christian nationalism: “how dare women need time off to heal, care for baby,endure emotional & physical changes that make you ‘unattractive,’ & then have children that are seen & heard in public!”

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

White Christian patriarchal nationalism: “the only way women can fulfill divine purpose is to have babies!”

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

One of the biggest traps laid in America is the expectation all women *should* be mothers, without any institutional or structural support *for* mothers.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Grief has the power to do one of two things in your life: One choice is to become more self-protective. The other, more difficult, choice is to let this pain break your heart such that your heart is more open to the grief of the world. substack.com/@revlizzie/n...

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail on Substack

Grief has the power to do one of two things in your life: One choice is to become more self-protective, more insulated for fear of the pain of the world and the pain inside yourself. The other, mor...

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

But I believe in a God who listens to our prayers. And if you feel helpless I beg you to pray for the grieving and the dead. It’s not useless or dumb or trite. It’s lifting your soul up to its natural bent towards crying out with all whose souls are breaking. Do not let that be taken from you.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I’m obviously critical of the empire power misuse and abuse of “thoughts & prayers.”

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Loving and being loved by Christ sets us free from the endless loop of a charming and entrapping violence that corrodes every thought, peace, and dream.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

To be free in Christ is to believe there is MORE than the utterly reasonable choice to choose fear in a world full of endless, seductive violence.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🩷 praying for you. I was told “not yet” in my ordination process and it felt like the end of the world. But it was the greatest pivot that lead to where I am now. Praying there is something unseen that magnificently will unfold.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

As is true every year, I ask your prayers for my congregation’s safety this morning for our Pride Eucharist. 🌈🩷

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The reason I need the Church is this: I need to practice resurrection hope in a garden with friends and strangers who are full of fear and trembling ... but looking for the empty tomb, anyway.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The reason I need the Church is this: I need to practice staring death in the eyes without fear -- and I can't do this without being in a community of people doing the same thing, imperfectly, hand in hand.

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The Sacred Slope @thesacredslope.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

✨ During Pride—who will be the stone catchers? Out soon: Ep 7 of The Sacred Slope features Alexis & @revlizzie.bsky.social talking joy, allyship & who stands in the gap when harm comes flying. Follow @thesacredslope for the drop #Christianity #LGBTQ #PrideMonth #LGBTQAlly #OpenAndAffirming

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

God is bigger than any question we can ask. God delights in inviting us in to deeper mystery. White supremacy, however, depends on compliance without wonder, clarity without delight, and binaries without beauty.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Part of why white Christian nationalism doesn’t want you asking too many questions is because you CAN break open white supremacy, and nationalism, and compliance by asking questions. But you CANNOT break God by asking too many questions.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I know the Gospel's call to liberation, love, & joy and justice for all is still good news someone needs to hear.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I have so much faith in God, and I have so much faith in my incredible, nimble, curious, big-hearted, bigger-dreaming colleagues. Being Christian has never once been about being aligned with mainstream power, but I am so heartened to see more conversations like this RNS piece because

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

And to everyone who fears the “death of the church” … Are we Christians?? Y’all!! What comes after death?? RESURRECTION. Life beyond our wildest dreams and more colorful than our bleakest fear. I am not afraid. And resurrection is already interrupting all our doom, every day.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

So proud of my friend, The Rev. Charles Graves IV & his beautiful church Christ Episcopal Church, Shaker Heights for this profile in the Religion News Service! And I am delighted that my colorful and joyful church, Jubilee Episcopal Church got a shoutout too! religionnews.com/2025/06/16/m...

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Meet the gay millennial priest on a mission to pull the Episcopal Church out of 'free fall'

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio (RNS) — The Rev. Charles Graves IV is part of a younger, more diverse generation of Episcopal priests who believes the denomination can thrive — as long as it continues to evolve.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Leviticus 19:33 -34 “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A reminder that Jesus’ parents didn’t flee “legally” to Egypt when Herod wanted their baby boy dead. Mary and Joseph, with their infant son, Jesus, followed God. And that meant directly disobeying the law.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I just remembered tomorrow my favorite singer is coming to my church and so are you 🥰🌸🌻🌼

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

But I do … pray. And prayers led me to feeling like the right time to finally dive deep into the Bible’s best book about what an apocalypse teaches us. So here’s my first sermon of four on Revelation, as I’ll be dwelling here for the remainder of Eastertide. open.substack.com/pub/revlizzi...

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How to have joy when the world is falling apart

Revelation, and the hope letter from the apocalypse (Sermon from Jubilee on May 11, 2025)

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The #1 question I’ve been asked on book tour & been asking myself this year has been this: how can we have joy when the world is coming apart at the seams? To be clear, I don’t have this hacked. I’m terrified. I’m sleep deprived. I’m mad and scared too. /🧵

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Me: *splutters* Well, yes … but Jesus doesn’t *stay* dead, he comes back. The glow stick doesn’t. *she tilts her chin in her defiant, thats-not-real face* Tot: Mmmm… I bring to my room. It not dead. Like Jesus.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Scene: my toddker is holding up a long-deceased glow stick Tot: Mama, I bring this to my room and it glow? Me: Well, baby, I don’t think it will glow. Because the thing about glow sticks is they glow for a day and then stop, because they die. Tot: Like Jesus!!!!! Me: *splutters*

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very excited to be in #Manhattan tomorrow night for #GodDidntMakeUsToHateUs at Imagine Worship at Saint Bart’s! 6pm event, 7pm service, free dinner after. And then I’m preaching at 10am & 5pm at St. Luke’s in Darien, CT on Sunday !!🦋

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Hey #NYC! I’m going to be preaching at St. Bart’s Imagine Worship this Thursday & St. Luke’s in Darien, CT this Sunday! See you there!! Xo

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This one if for my church people 😭🥲😅🫡 #holyweek

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I was a silly little goose and forgot I spent a month upcycling a whole chasuble for Lent until … tonight 🥲 at least I still can wear it tomorrow!

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (she/her) @revlizzie.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

oops I got really into reading about laetare sunday for what was supposed to be a cute IG caption for my church and… well… new substack post drops tomorrow morning lol 🎀

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