Elizabeth Glass Turner 🦃
@egtfirefall.bsky.social
Writer, editor, researcher; curates FireFall, a newsletter amplifying women leading in the church across traditions, around the world, & throughout church history.
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Bumped into this while exploring cobwebby digitized newspaper archives the other day. Wasn't what I was looking for, but...got my attention.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Bumped into this while exploring cobwebby digitized newspaper archives the other day. Wasn't what I was looking for, but...got my attention.
Yes.
And capturing open-access digitized archival content may be especially valuable right now-
not only bc content keywords are being scrubbed from some sites but bc I don't want machine learning tools interpreting archival content for me, which seems likely to be attempted.
Love this photo.
And capturing open-access digitized archival content may be especially valuable right now-
not only bc content keywords are being scrubbed from some sites but bc I don't want machine learning tools interpreting archival content for me, which seems likely to be attempted.
Love this photo.
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Yes.
And capturing open-access digitized archival content may be especially valuable right now-
not only bc content keywords are being scrubbed from some sites but bc I don't want machine learning tools interpreting archival content for me, which seems likely to be attempted.
Love this photo.
And capturing open-access digitized archival content may be especially valuable right now-
not only bc content keywords are being scrubbed from some sites but bc I don't want machine learning tools interpreting archival content for me, which seems likely to be attempted.
Love this photo.
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Love this from the 1930s:
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Love this from the 1930s:
That man's gonna have such an awkward Thanksgiving dinner.
Meanwhile, ladies in the 1930s:
Meanwhile, ladies in the 1930s:
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
That man's gonna have such an awkward Thanksgiving dinner.
Meanwhile, ladies in the 1930s:
Meanwhile, ladies in the 1930s:
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Pastor Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee.
Yes yes *not* Episcopalian, but I don't get many chances to bring up Dr. Lee and her Chinatown church. Pell St, I think? (I think she may be the only woman pastor I've found so far to have a post office dedicated to her.)
Yes yes *not* Episcopalian, but I don't get many chances to bring up Dr. Lee and her Chinatown church. Pell St, I think? (I think she may be the only woman pastor I've found so far to have a post office dedicated to her.)
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pastor Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee.
Yes yes *not* Episcopalian, but I don't get many chances to bring up Dr. Lee and her Chinatown church. Pell St, I think? (I think she may be the only woman pastor I've found so far to have a post office dedicated to her.)
Yes yes *not* Episcopalian, but I don't get many chances to bring up Dr. Lee and her Chinatown church. Pell St, I think? (I think she may be the only woman pastor I've found so far to have a post office dedicated to her.)
This isn't a fancy photo but on a rough morning, a glimmer caught my eye and I leaned in closer.
Just let the light catch the edge of your attention. Let yourself notice. Lean close.
It'll carry you.
Just let the light catch the edge of your attention. Let yourself notice. Lean close.
It'll carry you.
October 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This isn't a fancy photo but on a rough morning, a glimmer caught my eye and I leaned in closer.
Just let the light catch the edge of your attention. Let yourself notice. Lean close.
It'll carry you.
Just let the light catch the edge of your attention. Let yourself notice. Lean close.
It'll carry you.
Women, voting, makeup bans, tax on singles, smug U.S. headlines, int'l nationalist wives photo op, Japanese women suffragists, women laughing Goebbels off a stage, ordination & more:
the world women pastors of WWII had been navigating,
via English-language papers:
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
the world women pastors of WWII had been navigating,
via English-language papers:
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Women, voting, makeup bans, tax on singles, smug U.S. headlines, int'l nationalist wives photo op, Japanese women suffragists, women laughing Goebbels off a stage, ordination & more:
the world women pastors of WWII had been navigating,
via English-language papers:
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
the world women pastors of WWII had been navigating,
via English-language papers:
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
"There were women pastoring in the 1930s and 40s?"
Not only that, check out this 1930 headline that topped royal news:
From The Winnipeg Tribune, Mar 22 1930
Not only that, check out this 1930 headline that topped royal news:
From The Winnipeg Tribune, Mar 22 1930
September 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"There were women pastoring in the 1930s and 40s?"
Not only that, check out this 1930 headline that topped royal news:
From The Winnipeg Tribune, Mar 22 1930
Not only that, check out this 1930 headline that topped royal news:
From The Winnipeg Tribune, Mar 22 1930
You can scrape people off websites + dismantle university groups but you can't stop us from wearing history.
I put together some items like this, celebrating a few of the women around the world who preached, pastored, & led the church (2 w/arrest records).
More: www.bonfire.com/store/good-cheer/
I put together some items like this, celebrating a few of the women around the world who preached, pastored, & led the church (2 w/arrest records).
More: www.bonfire.com/store/good-cheer/
July 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
You can scrape people off websites + dismantle university groups but you can't stop us from wearing history.
I put together some items like this, celebrating a few of the women around the world who preached, pastored, & led the church (2 w/arrest records).
More: www.bonfire.com/store/good-cheer/
I put together some items like this, celebrating a few of the women around the world who preached, pastored, & led the church (2 w/arrest records).
More: www.bonfire.com/store/good-cheer/
I'm so sorry. I appreciate you. Praying, and then will follow it up with a prayer chaser.
Meanwhile, this:
Meanwhile, this:
July 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I'm so sorry. I appreciate you. Praying, and then will follow it up with a prayer chaser.
Meanwhile, this:
Meanwhile, this:
As women are scraped off govt websites like hardened wads of gum from the bottom of diner tables
I'd like to observe that 85 years ago this country managed to plaster a woman to our mail every day when the Jane Addams stamp was released in 1940 -
she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
I'd like to observe that 85 years ago this country managed to plaster a woman to our mail every day when the Jane Addams stamp was released in 1940 -
she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
As women are scraped off govt websites like hardened wads of gum from the bottom of diner tables
I'd like to observe that 85 years ago this country managed to plaster a woman to our mail every day when the Jane Addams stamp was released in 1940 -
she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
I'd like to observe that 85 years ago this country managed to plaster a woman to our mail every day when the Jane Addams stamp was released in 1940 -
she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Would they also like to take a dive into the history of sometimes long-term, debilitating effects of catching infections (for which we have vaccines)?
Exhibit A, people who spent most of their lives in iron lungs
Exhibit B, via The Lancet
Exhibit A, people who spent most of their lives in iron lungs
Exhibit B, via The Lancet
May 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Would they also like to take a dive into the history of sometimes long-term, debilitating effects of catching infections (for which we have vaccines)?
Exhibit A, people who spent most of their lives in iron lungs
Exhibit B, via The Lancet
Exhibit A, people who spent most of their lives in iron lungs
Exhibit B, via The Lancet
Is he saying it's good for kids to catch something that can make their body "forget" other germs it should recognize? 😬
& not all kids have equal nutrition!
Around 1918, troops had big measles outbreak - lots of secondary infections. Images show result of surgical intervention.
(via The Lancet.)
& not all kids have equal nutrition!
Around 1918, troops had big measles outbreak - lots of secondary infections. Images show result of surgical intervention.
(via The Lancet.)
May 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Is he saying it's good for kids to catch something that can make their body "forget" other germs it should recognize? 😬
& not all kids have equal nutrition!
Around 1918, troops had big measles outbreak - lots of secondary infections. Images show result of surgical intervention.
(via The Lancet.)
& not all kids have equal nutrition!
Around 1918, troops had big measles outbreak - lots of secondary infections. Images show result of surgical intervention.
(via The Lancet.)
From @theguardian.com which changed the headline to this story this morning -
an editorial decision that downplays the voice of Israeli Holocaust survivors & women calling for the end of starvation & violence in Gaza.
See other posts for more.
Excellent work by Hannah Ellis-Petersen though!
an editorial decision that downplays the voice of Israeli Holocaust survivors & women calling for the end of starvation & violence in Gaza.
See other posts for more.
Excellent work by Hannah Ellis-Petersen though!
April 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
From @theguardian.com which changed the headline to this story this morning -
an editorial decision that downplays the voice of Israeli Holocaust survivors & women calling for the end of starvation & violence in Gaza.
See other posts for more.
Excellent work by Hannah Ellis-Petersen though!
an editorial decision that downplays the voice of Israeli Holocaust survivors & women calling for the end of starvation & violence in Gaza.
See other posts for more.
Excellent work by Hannah Ellis-Petersen though!
Fantastic coverage from Hannah Ellis-Petersen with @theguardian.com -
‘We have lost our humanity’: Holocaust survivors call for end to war in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘We have lost our humanity’: Holocaust survivors call for end to war in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
April 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Fantastic coverage from Hannah Ellis-Petersen with @theguardian.com -
‘We have lost our humanity’: Holocaust survivors call for end to war in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘We have lost our humanity’: Holocaust survivors call for end to war in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Yesterday-
Head of state:
"The golden rule of...success: he who has the gold makes the rules!"
A Jesuit:
"How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants! I appeal to all...use the resources available to help the needy, to fight hunger..."
Head of state:
"The golden rule of...success: he who has the gold makes the rules!"
A Jesuit:
"How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants! I appeal to all...use the resources available to help the needy, to fight hunger..."
April 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Yesterday-
Head of state:
"The golden rule of...success: he who has the gold makes the rules!"
A Jesuit:
"How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants! I appeal to all...use the resources available to help the needy, to fight hunger..."
Head of state:
"The golden rule of...success: he who has the gold makes the rules!"
A Jesuit:
"How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants! I appeal to all...use the resources available to help the needy, to fight hunger..."
Like pre-WWI one fave suffragist tactic was amateur theatrical tableaus, which is why the LOC has this photo of women putting on a drama on the Treasury steps-but not just American women, some int'l suffragists joined which is why a German woman was dressed like this. AND THEY ACT LIKE WE'RE EXTRA 😂
March 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Like pre-WWI one fave suffragist tactic was amateur theatrical tableaus, which is why the LOC has this photo of women putting on a drama on the Treasury steps-but not just American women, some int'l suffragists joined which is why a German woman was dressed like this. AND THEY ACT LIKE WE'RE EXTRA 😂
If your heart's a little beat-up and weary - maybe you need these words -
from my friend Rev Katie Lance's "Live Anointed: How God Sanctifies Men and Women to Lead Together" ("book doula" yours truly) -
from my friend Rev Katie Lance's "Live Anointed: How God Sanctifies Men and Women to Lead Together" ("book doula" yours truly) -
February 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
If your heart's a little beat-up and weary - maybe you need these words -
from my friend Rev Katie Lance's "Live Anointed: How God Sanctifies Men and Women to Lead Together" ("book doula" yours truly) -
from my friend Rev Katie Lance's "Live Anointed: How God Sanctifies Men and Women to Lead Together" ("book doula" yours truly) -
Bishop R.O. Hall, the bees' - as they say - knees.
January 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Bishop R.O. Hall, the bees' - as they say - knees.