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Helping religion scholars communicate with the public since 2018. www.sacred-writes.org

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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Christopher B. Zeichmann, lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University. Welcome Chris! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Ramisuddeen Vypukaran Muhammed Mansoor, Master’s student in Religion in the Public Sphere, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Welcome Ramisuddeen!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Raj Kumar Singh, PhD researcher in Anthropology at University of Delhi, India. Welcome Raj! www.linkedin.com/in/dr-raj-ku...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Mayuri Patankar, Independent Research Scholar. Welcome Mayuri! www.linkedin.com/in/mayuri-pa...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Seth Palmer, Assistant Professor at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. Welcome Seth!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Marie Olson Purcell, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) www.linkedin.com/in/marie-ols...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Lauren K. McCormick, postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion at Princeton University. Welcome Lauren! bsky.app/profile/lolo...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Terence Mayo, Coordinator of the African American Roundtable at Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion, Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Welcome Terence! www.linkedin.com/in/terence-m...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Paula Landim Nazaré, a graduate student at Federal University in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Welcoime Paula! www.instagram.com/paulinhaland...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Jimmy Hoke, Independent Scholar & adjunct faculty at United Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Welcome Jimmy! bsky.app/profile/jimm...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Samantha Carwyn, M.Div., with the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Welcome Sam! www.linkedin.com/in/sam-carwyn/
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Esther Brownsmith, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at University of Dayton, in Ohio. bsky.app/profile/brow... Welcome Esther!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Claudia Alvarez, PhD student in Religion & Society at Princeton Theological Seminary. x.com/Claudia52602...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A belated but no less grateful & enthusiastic introduction thread for Sacred Writes public scholarship training Summer Cohort, for scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality! Meet them below and here: www.sacred-writes.org/2025-carpent...
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2025 Carpenter Cohorts: Summer — Sacred Writes
Sacred Writes’ trainings provide scholars with opportunities to acquire skills, identify resources, push disciplinary boundaries, and build communities of accountability and support to produce public ...
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Dr. Jimmy Hoke @jimmyhoke.com · 20/08/2025
Also huge kudos to @sacredwrites.bsky.social for training and encouragement to create more public scholarship.
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Applications due by end of day 7/7! You can fill out yours here: forms.gle/3REKf4CH8eaH...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The training will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays in August from 12-1pm, and will pay each selected scholar a stipend. For more details, see: www.sacred-writes.org/apply
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Hello there scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality. Tomorrow--Monday July 7th--is the deadline to apply for Sacred Writes online public scholarship training August Intensive!
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Esther Brownsmith, PhD @brownsmith.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Is the Bible fan fiction? A thread. 📜 ​​
A "Fleabag" screencap that depicts a white brunette woman in the bathtub, reading a Bible.  She looks aghast at the camera with a hand over her mouth.
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Today's the day! Get those training applications in to join Sacred Writes online in May and June scheming about how to get your expertise in religion, gender, and sexuality out into the public conversation.
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hi there! Applications to the May-June online session of Sacred Writes Public Scholarship Training for scholars of religion, gender, and/or sexuality are DUE MONDAY! Take a second and apply, it will be fun I promise :) forms.gle/xeJWXcnQYw1x...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Welcome to our first Sacred Writes Classical Ideas scholar interview from our new trainings focused on religion, gender, and sexuality! Thank you @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social and @gregsoden.bsky.social
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rebecca Wolfe @rebeccathewolfe.bsky.social is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, with a PhD in Sociology from UCSF, where she examined bodily experiences of disordered eating and sexual dysfunction among people raised as women in Protestant purity culture. Welcome Rebecca!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Lucas Wilson, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga, is an award-winning author and the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy. Welcome Lucas! www.instagram.com/lukeslamdunk...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Tess Starman is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Howard University studying intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and power at the nexus of religion and politics. Welcome Tess! www.linkedin.com/in/tess-star...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Khanum Shaikh is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies & Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at California State University, Northridge. Her research on gender in contemporary Pakistan is funded by the NEH and the Fulbright Foundation. Welcome Khanum! www.instagram.com/khanums50/
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Saraswati Pottekkatt is a Masters student in Sutra and Tantra atThe Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Thought, and a member of the Western States Center’s inaugural Commons Cohort which brings together faith and civic leaders to respond to oppression. Welcome Saraswati!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sohini Sarah Pillai, @sohinipillai.bsky.social is Assistant Professor of Religion, Director of Film & Media Studies, and Marlene Crandell Francis Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Kalamazoo College. She studies Hindu traditions, epic narratives, Indian cinema & women in religion. Welcome Sohini!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Cathy Melesky Dante, is a PhD candidate in Theology at Marquette University, has served as a social worker doing child abuse prevention trainings in Catholic parishes, a campus minister, and currently as a spiritual director. Welcome Cathy!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Shantanu Mehra, PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at York University, Canada, studies how the Twelver Shia Muslim community of Toronto navigate Islamophobia in the Canadian multicultural public sphere. Welcome Shantanu! x.com/shantanumehra
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Celene Ibrahim, PhD, a faculty member in Religious Studies and Philosophy, The Groton School, a scholar of Qur’anic studies, gender studies and interreligious relations, and author of the award-winning Women and Gender in the Qur'an from OUP. Welcome Celine! www.linkedin.com/in/celene-ibrahim
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Amanda Hernandez @uhmanduhdawn.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology & affiliated with Feminist Studies, Race & Ethnicity Studies, at Southwestern University. She studies how white supremacy and sexism show up in U.S. Christian groups. Welcome Amanda!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Swasti Bhattacharyya is professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Buena Vista University, who is writing a book about the women of the Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram, an intentional, spiritually-focused women’s community in rural central India. Welcome Swasti! www.linkedin.com/in/swasti-bh...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Please join me in welcoming the members of our Spring Semester public scholarship training cohort for scholars of religion, gender and sexuality! Learn more about them all here: www.sacred-writes.org/2025-carpent...
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2025 Carpenter Cohorts: Spring Semester — Sacred Writes
Sacred Writes’ trainings provide scholars with opportunities to acquire skills, identify resources, push disciplinary boundaries, and build communities of accountability and support to produce public ...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Apologies, that's Kelsey Hanson Woodruff! @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Aisha Lovens is a PhD student in African American Preaching & Sacred Rhetoric at Christian Theological Seminary, where she studies sex rhetoric in Black churches and the liberative possibilities of womanist theology. Welcome Aisha!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Dana Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University, where she writes about how law and religion construct mothers and motherhood. Welcome Dana!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Mahruq Khan is Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she researches LGBTQ+ Muslims; Islamic feminisms; anti-Muslim racism and xenophobia in the U.S. www.linkedin.com/in/mahruq-kh...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Peach Hoyle is a PhD student in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, where they conduct ethnographic research into the dynamics of resistance and compliance in women’s interfaith organisations. Welcome Peach!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Beck A. Henriksen is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Rhodes College, where they are examining trans artists’ responses to medical care in the context of politicized Christianity. Welcome Beck!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Kelsey Hanson Woods @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate in Religion at Harvard University, where she is working on an ethnography of digital communities of post-evangelical feminists. Welcome Kelsey!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Alexiana Fry is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, where she studies the intersections of gender, sexuality, migration, and trauma in specific biblical texts. Welcome Alexiana! www.linkedin.com/in/alexiana-...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Amy Fallas is a PhD Candidate in History at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social and the Orient Institut in Beirut, where she researches religious difference, charitable networks, and historical memory in the Middle East. Welcome Amy!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Mickey Correa is Senior Director of Behavioral Health at The LGBT Community Center in NYC, and a PhD student in Social Welfare at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/in/mickey-co... Welcome Mickey!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Destinee Bates, is an MDiv student in Religion and the Black Experience at Union Theological Seminary, where she thinks about perceptions of beauty, desirability, and self-expression within racialized contexts. Welcome Destinee! @unionseminary.bsky.social www.instagram.com/teawithdesti...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Jacob Barrett @jakebarrett25.bsky.social is Phd student in Religious Studies, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill @reliunc, where he studies how the Supreme Court co-constructs religion and sex. Welcome Jacob!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Tazeen Ali @tazeenmali.bsky.social is Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, where she studies how American Muslim women negotiate the Islamic tradition to cultivate religious authority and build gender-equitable worship communities. Welcome Tazeen!
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Please put your virtual hands together for the intrepid cohort of religion, gender, and sexuality scholars selected for our January Intensive Public Scholarship Training, funded by the Carpenter Foundation! 👏 meet them below and www.sacred-writes.org/carpenter-co...
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2025 Carpenter Cohorts — Sacred Writes
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Applications are due Monday, December 16th, and we will tell you if you got into the program by December 20th. The app is a brief Google Form you can find here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is a 4-week condensed version of our program, perfect for scholars wanting to start the new year with some new energy, a community of accountability for public writing, and a $500 stipend :) Learn more here: www.sacred-writes.org/apply
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