Chrissy Stroop’s Less Churchy Exvangelical Pack
Less “ecumenical” than Blake Chastain’s Exvangelical/Religion and Society Starter Pack (which is fine—no beef with him!) because I am allergic to defensive Christians (some of whom have PhDs) and maybe you are too. Exvie/adjacent folks who won’t constantly defend the Bible as a “progressive” text
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@leeperetti.bsky.social
💙 EX-vangelical--non-believer (no gods, no superstitions, no bumps in the night); using my indoctrinated knowledge to push back daily on the continual dominance religion demands-and receives. Separation of church and state is a civic virtue. 💙
@alexdemarco.bsky.social
project editor, Baker Academic • nontheistic, polydox Protestant & fledgling Mahayanist • MDiv, Princeton • Reflecting reverently & irreverently on religious stuff & other stuff • I like it when people say things well • Views strictly my own • he/him • 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌿
@slyprofessor.bsky.social
#BLM | Professor @AppState | PhD Religious Studies - Mediterranean Antiquity | I study how ancient and modern Christians imagine history | Cycling | he/him | Writes @RDispatches | OpinionsMine
@joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social
Very (un)serious person who, occasionally, makes friends along the way… (also an addiction researcher/psychologist)
@joshuawood.net
geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky ⎯ software • information • systems • dystopia • hope signal: joshuawood.17
@themadlibs.bsky.social
🎓 CMU Heinz (MSPPM), FTS (MDiv), and Westminster, PA (BA) 💻 Program Director 📣 Cleveland ⚾ 🏀 and D2 🏀 🙋🏻♀️ Sarcastic, Opinionated, Observant, and tired 😫
@kejames.bsky.social
Environmental geneticist & outdoorswoman into eDNA, botany, evolution, space, sci-comm, skiing, Outlander & kindness • she/her 📍Unceded Wabanaki land (aka Maine)
@missahaarstad.bsky.social
Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s zemblanity ✨✨✨ Visual Function/Eye to Brain Chain Nerd, she/her
@alexander-nowhere.bsky.social
Trans, bisexual, tired. Always thinking about sci-fi and fantasy. A very serviceable squire. He/him
@dlmayfield.bsky.social
I grew up white evangelical and I’m tired. New book project STRONGWILLED out on Substack now : https://open.substack.com/pub/strongwilled. All things pagan and healing adjacent here: https://open.substack.com/pub/dlmayfield
@melaniepierce.bsky.social
writer, reader, Grendel’s mom | ex-Evangelical | debut novel: THE UNDERTOW GIRL (Red Hen Press, 2027) https://melanie-pierce.com/
@jennasaisquoi.bsky.social
Leftist prepper, gardener, knitter, regenerative ag stan, legal professional (but NAL) #EmotionalSupportCanadian, #Exvangelical, Green Ajah Posts are my own views.
@brucewilson.bsky.social
Studying, writing on, & warning about the Christian Supremacist right since 2004. Before that, in late 90s I warned of global warming. Now, I'm hunkering down to weather the storm, also scheming with the Leguminati for our eventual world conquest.
@paulrosenberg.bsky.social
Words. At Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/paul_rosenberg & Random Lengths News: https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/author/paul-rosenberg Election take: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xy5et7tjp2m5vcse6ky23v2x/post/3lajp4jwy2s2n
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Exvangelical. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@novicsara.bsky.social
Author TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR 🧏🏻 deafie | 🌈 they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly https://linktr.ee/Novic
@maudnewton.bsky.social
Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her. https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
@louisathelast.bsky.social
Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
@elmcitytree.bsky.social
Professor at CUNY, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, & popular culture writ large, leftist & left handed. 🇰🇳 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7 Personal account
@gwensnyder.bsky.social
Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member. She/they.
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/
@eladn.bsky.social
Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
@ryanboren.bsky.social
Co-Creative Director @stimpunks.org I helped start WordPress.org, WordPress.com, WordCamp.org, and Automattic.com.
@ryanmulkowsky.bsky.social
hopeful psychotherapist • wannabe podcaster • aspiring writer • dope humanist • cool dad • awesome husband
@hereticmasked.bsky.social
Exvangelical, atheist, DiY religious studies, cult studies, failed-apocalypse cringe-posting, weird shit, counter-extremism School of Making Poor Life Choices Only Slightly Doomed She/They/bad at gender My apologies for continuing to be relevant
@artistsali.bsky.social
RGG Studios please notice me -Yakuza/Like A Dragon Streamer -Artist -Occasional YouTuber -Creator of Ok2BeFat -Fat Activist (mostly retired) -Bisexual 💗 AuDHD 🕺 -Exvangelical 😱 Watch me on Twitch- https://twitch.tv/artists_ali
@anoosh100.bsky.social
Organizer, writer, campaign manager. Queer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, brown ✊🏽, & disabled ♿️. Work with immigrants & youth. Lg: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇸🇳 All work: bit.ly/m/link2Anoosh Political t-shirts: bonfire.com/store/downtown-angry-brown/ Parent. Armenian 🇦🇲 Filipinx 🇵🇭 American. ❤️🐕
@tlecaque.bsky.social
Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. He/him.
@jeannecasteen.bsky.social
ED @secularaz.bsky.social. Advocate for social justice, dog lover, avid camper, didn't know that my love for dystopian fiction was essentially me reading a guide book. #SecularActivistLady #UnionStrong #LiberalAtheist; posts belong to me and me alone
@lizkineke.bsky.social
Writer + TV Producer + journalist Casting producer - Speak. documentary, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival Religion is always in the room lizkineke.com
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@jillianhanlon.bsky.social
The most important tasks before us are to reduce suffering and to encourage thriving
@vox-magica.bsky.social
historian of ancient christianity | researcher of magic & heresy | neurospicy | author of smoke & mirrors (OUP 2025) and magic and heresy (CUP 2025) | she/her
@daviddark.bsky.social
believes radiohead / tenured talker /author of We Become What We Normalize, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, & Explain All These Controls: U2 & the Inner America (forthcoming)
@davidmluebke.bsky.social
Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊
@megaforte84.bsky.social
Housewife (she/her) and unpublished amateur writer. Grew up a Southern Baptist in GA, currently an Episcopalian in MA after several stops along the way.
@crddouglas.bsky.social
American literature, Bible scholarship, Christian Right, apocalypse now and then. Univ of Victoria. My latest: "What If God is a ‘Pagan Amalgam’: Marilynne Robinson and Historical Bible Scholarship" https://academic.oup.com/litthe/article/37/2/67/7208648
@robmajor.bsky.social
Lawyer, husband, dad, stepdad, liberal, ex-vangelical, National Park fanatic, traveler, science fan, amateur photographer, drummer, surfer, love dogs & birds, Twitter refugee. (No DM’s)
@devanseli.bsky.social
🌈 Author ✍🏾 Podcaster 🎧 Poet 🎭 Storyteller 🗣️ Dope ✊🏾 Down to Earth 🌍 Don’t play with me ♒️ 🙏🏾 DMV 📍 https://devanseli.substack.com/podcast
@praeyesright.bsky.social
Political Research Associates. Social justice research and strategy center since 1981. Publishers of The Public Eye magazine
@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/
@abbottalynn.bsky.social
@nancywgonzalez.bsky.social
M.Ed., wife, mom, retired from a career in family policy and academic advising. INFP. Aspiring Battleaxe. Political lefty, progressive Christian. Minneapolis, MN USA.
@ryezuul.bsky.social
Goth artist, writer, editor, reviewer, pet appreciator from North West England. https://ryezuul.substack.com/ Art commissions and editing services available at zuul.art@outlook.com. SFF, horror, occultism, religion, philosophy. Any pronouns. 🖤
@nicolec.bsky.social
My job is just...teach. Associate Teaching Professor of Writing Arts, Assistant Coordinator of First Year Writing. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD collecting dust on my shelf. Amateur birder, voracious reader. Philly Philly.
@ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the US & globally. 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social Agent: Landwehr & Cie Events: Paula Döring
@lukeslamdunkwilson.bsky.social
PhD | Writer | Editor of SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS’ STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/shame-sex-attraction-survivors-stories-of-conversion-therapy/9781805011323.html
@llmunro.bsky.social
PhD, historian, writer, Latin America, returned Peace Corps volunteer (Guatemala, 04-06), #adoptee, #studyabroad & intellectual dilettante. Nachos. She/her/Dr.
@trans.bsky.social
Trans enby woman into tech, queer rights, pop culture, & alt-text. writer/artist/product manager. she / they/ fae. 🔞minors dni🔞 —— 🎯𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴: Electrolysis⚡️ —— Tip Jar ☕️: https://ko-fi.com/trans_sage Merch👩🎤: transgender.gay
@thelifeshewrote.bsky.social
AuDHD • exvie • podcaster • blogger • ex-church staffer • 🩷💜💙 • she/her • https://linktr.ee/thelifeshewrote
@seatbooks.bsky.social
Inclusive, LGBTQ-owned bookstore, cafe, and community hub in Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento.
@skipsandwichdx.bsky.social
🥪Puts a little skip in your step | ✝️Games, queer stuff, Methodism | 🏳️⚧️She/Her/Fastest Mario | 🐘Fedi: @SkipSandwichDX@Dice.Camp 🏛️Equality Arlington
@sadie728.bsky.social
Facts Rule / 2 ADHD 4 a PhD / linguistic & biomedical anthropologist / former Soviet Studies nerd / atheist / 🟩 pragmatic progressive / feminist / DEMOCRACY REQUIRES PARTICIPATION
@eringreen.bsky.social
Director @ REAP LGBT l BA Biblical Studies l M.Div. l Queer activist, gentleman, scholar. She/They
@madolynhenderson.bsky.social
She/Her | Psych grad student 👩💻 | I research homeschooling | Exvangelical | Children deserve rights. #MakeHomeschoolSafe
@jmrives.bsky.social
#DigitalArt #Reading #Cats #Tea #FountainPens #Migraineur #TransNonBinary
@emilyjoyallison.bsky.social
Writer & scholar of religion, gender & sexuality, focusing on Christianity in the US, sexual violence & reproductive health care. Author of #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse & How to Find Healing. Views & swears my own 🌈
@celestefinally.bsky.social
Pro-justice, anti-bully. Christian-ish, trying to follow love. Writer. Married. 2 kids. Survivor. She/her, trans/lesbian, polyamorous 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Substack: https://www.celestefinally.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Celestial-Navigation
@kathrynajoyce.bsky.social
Investigative editor @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social & journalist covering the right. Author of The Child Catchers & Quiverfull. Writing in various places. kathrynajoyce@gmail.com Signal: kathrynajoyce.01
@soraaad.bsky.social
SORAAAD.org, allowing people to gather w/o being religious since 2011. Qual Research on Religion, Religion-like stuff, and Religion & stuff best not studied as religious but key to understanding those doing, being, saying & feeling stuff labeled religion
@ichatterjea.bsky.social
#ProductStrategy #UX #ServiceDesign @rendezvoux.bsky.social @soraaad.bsky.social "Teaching the Study of Religion w/o a Church: SORAAAD as Punk Pedagogy" https://search.worldcat.org/title/1368270665 🏴☠️ TDPR's Navigator 🏴☠️
@mpgphd.bsky.social
✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America 🙄 also "cults" 💻 senior editor @religiondispatches.org 🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF 📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020) pitch me! https://tinyurl.com/mpgphd
@richterscale.bsky.social
Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more
@kellyjbaker.bsky.social
writer. mother. little gremlin. PhD. MFA student. author of Gospel According to the Klan, The Zombies Are Coming, Grace Period, Final Girl, etc. co-host of @podonlyknows.bsky.social newsletter: https://www.kellyjbaker.com/newsletter/
@swordsjew.bsky.social
journalist, author, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
@rlstollar.bsky.social
Child liberation theologian, child and survivor advocate. Learn more about my work: www.rlstollar.com. He/him.
@muzach.bsky.social
Recovering certainty addict. Co-host, Veterans of Culture Wars podcast. Musician, former worship leader, helped destroy Mars Hill Church, not really sure what I believe anymore, and ok with that. He/Him https://linktr.ee/vcwpod
@neiljyoung.bsky.social
Writer & historian of US religion, politics, and culture. New book: COMING OUT REPUBLICAN: A HISTORY OF THE GAY RIGHT (2024). Los Angeles. http://tinyurl.com/8vps3y82
@julieingersoll.bsky.social
Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. Providing updates from the Florida dystopia, I'd rather be in my camper.
@hcexvangelical.bsky.social
Product Manager. Proud Papa. In love and married. Learning viticulture and oenology. Brewer. Ex-evangelical apostate. Returning to life in the Rio Grande valley.
@thephatic.bsky.social
@cortland.me
soft bi boi | he/him @thepursuinglife.bsky.social 's co-host on @thereafterpod
@thepursuinglife.bsky.social
she/her, cohost of Thereafter Podcast w/ @cortland.me, PNW🌲, agnostic, enneagram1, professor, BLM, feminist AF, bi🩷💜💙 #deconstruction, pro-therapy, runner🏃🏼♀️NEW PODCAST Scidentity Crisis
@bradleyonishi.bsky.social
Research on Christian nationalism and the American Right. Co-host of @straightwhitejc and founder of Axis Mundi Media. 4th Gen Lakers fan. www.axismundi.us
@bisexualkaiju.bsky.social
Rowan. 30 year old Cuban-American writer. Lover of horror. Articles found on Signal Horizon and Unwinnable. Creator of Dark Intersections, the horror book review blog. (They/Them) https://linktr.ee/lyanarodriguez
@rsokamoto.bsky.social
I like writing, fishing, cooking, and baseball. Creator/host of the Chapel Probation podcast. Author of Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University.
@rickpidcock.bsky.social
Weekly contributor for Baptist News Global | Currently writing "Worship Warfare" (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Host of BNG's "Highest Power: Church + State" | Stay at home dad | He/him | www.rickpidcock.com | rickpidcock.substack.com
@laurenoneal.bsky.social
Nonfiction editor at Penguin Random House. I put the chic in Chicago Manual of Style.
@thecheath.bsky.social
Sometimes the king is a woman. #ProgressiveChristian #Lesbian #Black #Christian (and I love cartoons) Download Our Bible App on iOS and Android www.ourbibleapp.com 😇
@jayepool.bsky.social
Author of the literary fiction novel MAKE ME FREE, Book 1 in the Losantiverse duology. Short story writer, indie author. Website: http://jayepool.com Newsletter Sign-Up: http://www.jayepool.com/newsletter #booksky #Blackbooksky #litfic #exvangelical
@thesnarkygent.bsky.social
alias Matt • chaotic good • agnostic, autistic, bisexual • probably playing a board game in his head right now
@bv-pdx.bsky.social
he/him. 1w9, INFJ, JS and Kotlin coder 👨💻,☕🏃🚴 🎸🏀🥏📚. Married with 2 kids and 2 cats (I post about my cats a lot 😆). “Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one).” LLAP 🖖
@benjaminfaye.bsky.social
Co-Host of the White Homework podcast. Exvangelical. Adoptee. Former educator. Writer. Musician. Speaker. Advocate. Philly born. ATL dwelling. @heytherebenji on IG & TikTok.
@toriglass.bsky.social
co-host of White Homework, co-host of @gohomebible. former conservative antiracism educator because i like reading. community > everything. exvangelical, 🏳️🌈 | 📍PDX (but probably hiking)
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
Cofounder of The Flytrap (@theflytrapmedia.bsky.social). Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches. Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy. Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum. Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road