Taylor Petrey

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...

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 _.

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...

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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Cover of Dialogue, Volume 57, Issue 4, Winter 2024 Artwork depicting a large family gathering around a table.

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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End of an era for me. Thanks @dialoguejournal.bsky.social!!

Cover of Dialogue, Volume 57, Issue 4, Winter 2024 Artwork depicting a large family gathering around a table.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Happy reading!!

Three new Mormon Studies books: Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader, Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos, and Between the Temple and the Tax Collector.

Recent deliveries, including new Mormon studies books by @taylorpetrey.bsky.social and @smbrnsn.bsky.social. Really excited to dig into these!

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.

Yeah, don’t do social media while driving.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

I dream of a time when Gobstopper multicolor layer technology can be applied to bar soap.

Remember when Trump was impeached for trying to extort a fake investigation into the Bidens from Ukraine? He actually did it. It’s in the transcript and sworn testimonies. Anyway, now they’re a target of his revenge scheme.

Why are we here in a world where American oligarchs are buying our politicians and getting to run amock in the government?

One of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history: Citizen’s United.

While the notion that the gender of deities directly mirrors the gender politics of a religion was an overly simplistic interpretation of earlier social analyses, the exposition of heteropatriarchal ideology concealed as theology continues to be a crucial aspect of analysis.

Trump dismantle government fight against foreign influence operations

Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious.

Ugh, I didn’t want to look but you made me. Heart breaking.

They came through!

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Whether due to stupidity or worse, the president of the United States of America is indisputably a Russian asset.

They all know he’s corrupt and stupid and yet they all go along with him. They haven’t hit bottom yet.