Taylor Petrey
@taylorpetrey.bsky.social
Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College.
Early Christianity, Gender Studies, Mormonism
Early Christianity, Gender Studies, Mormonism
Such a fun conversation!!
January 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Such a fun conversation!!
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I had the pleasure of sitting down with @taylorpetrey.bsky.social to discuss The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition today! Thanks to the @uofupress.bsky.social for the review copy.
Latter-day Saints and the Bible | It Means What It Means Podcast
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January 14, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I had the pleasure of sitting down with @taylorpetrey.bsky.social to discuss The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition today! Thanks to the @uofupress.bsky.social for the review copy.
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If you're a PhD student, postdoc, or independent scholar working in Mormon studies, please consider applying to the Eugene England Summer Institute, which I co-lead with @taylorpetrey.bsky.social and Jana Riess. Our first year was an incredible experience & we expect the second year to be as well.
Eugene England Summer Institute
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December 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you're a PhD student, postdoc, or independent scholar working in Mormon studies, please consider applying to the Eugene England Summer Institute, which I co-lead with @taylorpetrey.bsky.social and Jana Riess. Our first year was an incredible experience & we expect the second year to be as well.
Ugh I’m so sorry to hear this. Absolutely awful. Sending good vibes
August 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Ugh I’m so sorry to hear this. Absolutely awful. Sending good vibes
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I’ve never had a more pleasant/rewarding academic experience than I did last week co-directing the Eugene England Summer Institute, a writing retreat/workshop for junior scholars in Mormon studies. Thanks to co-directors @taylorpetrey.bsky.social and Jana Riess, & especially the phenomenal fellows.
June 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I’ve never had a more pleasant/rewarding academic experience than I did last week co-directing the Eugene England Summer Institute, a writing retreat/workshop for junior scholars in Mormon studies. Thanks to co-directors @taylorpetrey.bsky.social and Jana Riess, & especially the phenomenal fellows.
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📚 In @dialoguejournal.bsky.social Vol. 57, Iss. 4, Christopher James Blythe reviews @uofupress.bsky.social book "Like a Fiery Meteor," @shilohlogan.bsky.social reviews "Proclaim Peace," and there's two more reviews. cc: @taylorpetrey.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...
May 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
📚 In @dialoguejournal.bsky.social Vol. 57, Iss. 4, Christopher James Blythe reviews @uofupress.bsky.social book "Like a Fiery Meteor," @shilohlogan.bsky.social reviews "Proclaim Peace," and there's two more reviews. cc: @taylorpetrey.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...
Incredible how some people applaud past progress like it’s sacred history—labor rights! civil rights! feminism!—but when today’s movements come knocking, it’s all “let’s not get carried away.”
May 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Incredible how some people applaud past progress like it’s sacred history—labor rights! civil rights! feminism!—but when today’s movements come knocking, it’s all “let’s not get carried away.”
The Scholars and Saints podcast out of UVA is one of my favorite in the Mormon Studies space and I love the work that @nbshrum34.bsky.social has been doing with it. This was a great discussion on my latest book _Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos _.
May 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Scholars and Saints podcast out of UVA is one of my favorite in the Mormon Studies space and I love the work that @nbshrum34.bsky.social has been doing with it. This was a great discussion on my latest book _Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos _.
The Scholars and Saints podcast out of UVA is one of my favorite in the Mormon Studies space and I love the work that Nicholas Shrum has been doing with it. This was a great discussion on my latest book _Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos _.
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Queering the Mormon Cosmos (feat. Taylor Petrey) - Scholars & Saints
Mormonism has been stereotypically conceived of as a patriarchal, heteronormative religion, from its past polygamy to its male-only priesthood. But what happens if you apply a queer studies lens to th...
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May 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Scholars and Saints podcast out of UVA is one of my favorite in the Mormon Studies space and I love the work that Nicholas Shrum has been doing with it. This was a great discussion on my latest book _Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos _.
www.buzzsprout.com/1298003/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1298003/epis...
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Vol. 57, Iss. 4, of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social contains personal voices, poetry, & fiction that resonate with the theme of family, using creativity to illuminate perspectives that are both universal and unique. cc:
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May 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Vol. 57, Iss. 4, of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social contains personal voices, poetry, & fiction that resonate with the theme of family, using creativity to illuminate perspectives that are both universal and unique. cc:
@taylorpetrey.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...
@taylorpetrey.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...
End of an era for me. Thanks @dialoguejournal.bsky.social!!
May 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
End of an era for me. Thanks @dialoguejournal.bsky.social!!
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What is a family? This special issue of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social 57.4 explores the multifaceted concept of family within the context of Latter-day Saint culture & thought. cc:
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April 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What is a family? This special issue of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social 57.4 explores the multifaceted concept of family within the context of Latter-day Saint culture & thought. cc:
@taylorpetrey.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...
@taylorpetrey.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...
6/ (For Latter-day Saints, the stakes are slightly different. This tradition leans less on biblical hermeneutics and more on continuing revelation through prophetic leadership. But interpretation still matters—because prophets read texts too. And culture shapes what they’re willing to see.)
April 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
6/ (For Latter-day Saints, the stakes are slightly different. This tradition leans less on biblical hermeneutics and more on continuing revelation through prophetic leadership. But interpretation still matters—because prophets read texts too. And culture shapes what they’re willing to see.)
5/ The real question isn’t what the Bible says. It’s how we choose to read it—and who we’re willing to harm to keep reading it the old way.
April 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
5/ The real question isn’t what the Bible says. It’s how we choose to read it—and who we’re willing to harm to keep reading it the old way.
4/ Today, we’re watching that fight happen again—this time over gender and sexuality. The stakes feel familiar: exclusion cloaked in piety vs. a faith that liberates.
Christianity isn’t being corrupted by queer inclusion. It’s being refined—just like it was when it broke with slavery.
Christianity isn’t being corrupted by queer inclusion. It’s being refined—just like it was when it broke with slavery.
April 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
4/ Today, we’re watching that fight happen again—this time over gender and sexuality. The stakes feel familiar: exclusion cloaked in piety vs. a faith that liberates.
Christianity isn’t being corrupted by queer inclusion. It’s being refined—just like it was when it broke with slavery.
Christianity isn’t being corrupted by queer inclusion. It’s being refined—just like it was when it broke with slavery.
3/ Literalists lost. Slowly, painfully, they had to admit: the Bible had to be read through a bigger lens—one that could challenge oppression, not sanctify it.
That wasn’t “liberal drift.” It was a reckoning with the text’s moral trajectory. A fight for a Bible that could breathe justice.
That wasn’t “liberal drift.” It was a reckoning with the text’s moral trajectory. A fight for a Bible that could breathe justice.
April 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
3/ Literalists lost. Slowly, painfully, they had to admit: the Bible had to be read through a bigger lens—one that could challenge oppression, not sanctify it.
That wasn’t “liberal drift.” It was a reckoning with the text’s moral trajectory. A fight for a Bible that could breathe justice.
That wasn’t “liberal drift.” It was a reckoning with the text’s moral trajectory. A fight for a Bible that could breathe justice.
2/ In the 19th century, American Christianity fractured over slavery. The dividing line? Whether to read the Bible by the letter—or by its deeper moral vision.
April 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
2/ In the 19th century, American Christianity fractured over slavery. The dividing line? Whether to read the Bible by the letter—or by its deeper moral vision.
1/ The way Christians used the Bible to defend slavery is eerily similar to how many now use it to condemn queer people. The battle isn’t new. It’s the same script with new actors.
April 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
1/ The way Christians used the Bible to defend slavery is eerily similar to how many now use it to condemn queer people. The battle isn’t new. It’s the same script with new actors.
An individual lacks the power to effect structural change alone.
But a committee can reach a well-documented consensus that structural change is, regrettably, unfeasible at this time.
But a committee can reach a well-documented consensus that structural change is, regrettably, unfeasible at this time.
April 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
An individual lacks the power to effect structural change alone.
But a committee can reach a well-documented consensus that structural change is, regrettably, unfeasible at this time.
But a committee can reach a well-documented consensus that structural change is, regrettably, unfeasible at this time.
I for one believe we Americans owe the people of Ukraine immense gratitude for fighting on the front lines to keep the rest of Europe and the world safe from Russian aggression.
March 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I for one believe we Americans owe the people of Ukraine immense gratitude for fighting on the front lines to keep the rest of Europe and the world safe from Russian aggression.
Supporting Ukraine is not a Rorschach test. It is an open book True/False for anyone who paid any attention to 20th century European history.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t real hard choices about what to do but forced surrender with a knife in the back is so obviously not it.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t real hard choices about what to do but forced surrender with a knife in the back is so obviously not it.
February 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Supporting Ukraine is not a Rorschach test. It is an open book True/False for anyone who paid any attention to 20th century European history.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t real hard choices about what to do but forced surrender with a knife in the back is so obviously not it.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t real hard choices about what to do but forced surrender with a knife in the back is so obviously not it.
Yeah, don’t do social media while driving.
February 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Yeah, don’t do social media while driving.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
February 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.