Meg Mercury (they/them)
@megmercury.bsky.social
M.A., Religion & Theology. Ph.D. student at GTU Berkeley in Historical & Cultural Studies of Religion (Religion & Literature). Follow me for pantheistic heresies.
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
Any of y’all going to AAR this year?
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Any of y’all going to AAR this year?
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The wait is almost over! Join us tomorrow evening at 7:00 PM (November 19) on campus or online to celebrate the launch of Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green II’s ground-breaking new book: “Playing the Game: Embodied Brilliance beyond the Moral Limits of Race in Sport.”
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The wait is almost over! Join us tomorrow evening at 7:00 PM (November 19) on campus or online to celebrate the launch of Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green II’s ground-breaking new book: “Playing the Game: Embodied Brilliance beyond the Moral Limits of Race in Sport.”
Just finished: The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. I think the last time I read this was in high school.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just finished: The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. I think the last time I read this was in high school.
Just finished: On Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just finished: On Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt
I mean, you know where they live.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I mean, you know where they live.
Losing my dad has tied my throat up in knots & I’m afraid of what snakes & bugs will come falling out when it comes loose. None of them are at my dad but my anger is so fierce. So hot. So fucking hot. My grief is so hot.
I want to teach seminarians for a reason & it isn’t because I hate my dad.
I want to teach seminarians for a reason & it isn’t because I hate my dad.
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Losing my dad has tied my throat up in knots & I’m afraid of what snakes & bugs will come falling out when it comes loose. None of them are at my dad but my anger is so fierce. So hot. So fucking hot. My grief is so hot.
I want to teach seminarians for a reason & it isn’t because I hate my dad.
I want to teach seminarians for a reason & it isn’t because I hate my dad.
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When I was in grad school, Soyinka was the artist-in-residence at my university. I was in rooms of fewer than twenty-five people to hear his thoughts on literature and society.
He is a genius, and only America loses by this attack on brilliance and depth to save the ego of a paper-think intellect.
He is a genius, and only America loses by this attack on brilliance and depth to save the ego of a paper-think intellect.
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says his US visa revoked
The 91-year-old Nobel laureate in literature has been a critic of Trump's immigration policy.
bbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
When I was in grad school, Soyinka was the artist-in-residence at my university. I was in rooms of fewer than twenty-five people to hear his thoughts on literature and society.
He is a genius, and only America loses by this attack on brilliance and depth to save the ego of a paper-think intellect.
He is a genius, and only America loses by this attack on brilliance and depth to save the ego of a paper-think intellect.
1st week back in class after 3 weeks away (bereavement & break). Had @lennyaduncan.com give a great guest lecture for the students on Ifá influences on Alice Walker’s pagan-pantheist The Color Purple. It’s a gift to have generous wise & loving friends, & curious dedicated students. A balm.
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
1st week back in class after 3 weeks away (bereavement & break). Had @lennyaduncan.com give a great guest lecture for the students on Ifá influences on Alice Walker’s pagan-pantheist The Color Purple. It’s a gift to have generous wise & loving friends, & curious dedicated students. A balm.
Every time I get on social media it ties my stomach in knots. I’m so tired. In the wake of my father‘s death I might finally be ready to delete.
October 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Every time I get on social media it ties my stomach in knots. I’m so tired. In the wake of my father‘s death I might finally be ready to delete.
I’m catching up on Love is Blind (as all religion scholars should do) and what bakes me is how casting pits these 8-10 women against 5-7 men and then make them compete. The head games are wild.
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’m catching up on Love is Blind (as all religion scholars should do) and what bakes me is how casting pits these 8-10 women against 5-7 men and then make them compete. The head games are wild.
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This is really, really bad in ways we haven't even begun to consider, like the most obvious one is if you take this in conjunction with Trump's plan to reopen asylums it's the most direct path to us being put in camps that exists so far
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
September 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is really, really bad in ways we haven't even begun to consider, like the most obvious one is if you take this in conjunction with Trump's plan to reopen asylums it's the most direct path to us being put in camps that exists so far
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
edition.cnn.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
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Thoughts (derogatory) and prayers (imprecatory)
August 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Thoughts (derogatory) and prayers (imprecatory)
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An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Can I ask why the younger generation likes weak jawed greasy ratty looking men as their handsome ideal? I don’t get it. Can’t grow facial hair and look like they’d lure your nine year old into a van. ??? Predator gross aesthetic?
August 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Can I ask why the younger generation likes weak jawed greasy ratty looking men as their handsome ideal? I don’t get it. Can’t grow facial hair and look like they’d lure your nine year old into a van. ??? Predator gross aesthetic?
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“James Dobson, 89, died this week after a long battle with children,” writes @samthielman.com
James Dobson, Godfather of Child Abuse, Finally Dies
The radical cleric leaves behind a legacy of sanctified torture, destroyed children and broken families.
www.forever-wars.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“James Dobson, 89, died this week after a long battle with children,” writes @samthielman.com
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"I feel like a reincarnated 17th century artist. Some part of me expects patronage." - @megmercury.bsky.social
What a mood. I just want to create, and not have to worry about selling all of it. Someone pay me money to make weird shit.
What a mood. I just want to create, and not have to worry about selling all of it. Someone pay me money to make weird shit.
August 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"I feel like a reincarnated 17th century artist. Some part of me expects patronage." - @megmercury.bsky.social
What a mood. I just want to create, and not have to worry about selling all of it. Someone pay me money to make weird shit.
What a mood. I just want to create, and not have to worry about selling all of it. Someone pay me money to make weird shit.
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Trying to find a new church or organization at which to minister? Check out United’s External Job Board. Or, if you have a job that you'd like to include on our job board, simply write to submissions@unitedseminary.edu.
💼 View the board at the link below!
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External Job Board - United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
This page is a special resource for United students, alums, and friends to peruse open positions for ministry and related fields.
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July 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trying to find a new church or organization at which to minister? Check out United’s External Job Board. Or, if you have a job that you'd like to include on our job board, simply write to submissions@unitedseminary.edu.
💼 View the board at the link below!
💼 View the board at the link below!
I had to look my own file up to make basic conversation today, but to be fair, I’m in Kansas, and it was about the Border Ruffians, and I’m not from here. (“Wait, I wrote about this!” is both great and not great to an academic with a spotty memory.)
July 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I had to look my own file up to make basic conversation today, but to be fair, I’m in Kansas, and it was about the Border Ruffians, and I’m not from here. (“Wait, I wrote about this!” is both great and not great to an academic with a spotty memory.)
There are a ton of books I haven’t been recording here, mostly because they’re reading for fun (murder mysteries, etc.). I think I’m actually up to 90 books this year?
July 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
There are a ton of books I haven’t been recording here, mostly because they’re reading for fun (murder mysteries, etc.). I think I’m actually up to 90 books this year?
I live on Anishinaabeg Dakota land under Očhéthi Šakówin and Wahpekute sovereignty, and it feels real weird for the federal government to be tweeting “heritage” about land that belongs to those we stole from. MSP - Bdote - will never belong to the federal government.
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I live on Anishinaabeg Dakota land under Očhéthi Šakówin and Wahpekute sovereignty, and it feels real weird for the federal government to be tweeting “heritage” about land that belongs to those we stole from. MSP - Bdote - will never belong to the federal government.
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Pride Month may be over. But the fight for our lives, our joy, and our futures is not.
We stood. We stand. We will keep standing.
#QueerFaith #SacredResistance #PrideIsPolitical #MusicalMidrash
We stood. We stand. We will keep standing.
#QueerFaith #SacredResistance #PrideIsPolitical #MusicalMidrash
July 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Pride Month may be over. But the fight for our lives, our joy, and our futures is not.
We stood. We stand. We will keep standing.
#QueerFaith #SacredResistance #PrideIsPolitical #MusicalMidrash
We stood. We stand. We will keep standing.
#QueerFaith #SacredResistance #PrideIsPolitical #MusicalMidrash
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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025