Bethany Mannon
@drbethany.bsky.social
Rhetoric & Writing professor in Appalachia, studying feminism & religion | AI eye-roller | Currently writing a book about Rachel Held Evans
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
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Bethany Mannon
@drbethany.bsky.social
· Nov 8
"I Grew Up in the Church" - Baylor University Press
In 'I Grew Up in the Church': How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who have inf...
www.baylorpress.com
I have some thoughts about women - of all ages - leaving evangelicalism. 🧵
First of all, of course they are! I wrote about how women have spent the last two decades (and really longer) calling out alienating, unbiblical evangelical rhetoric and politics. 1/x www.baylorpress.com/978148131893...
First of all, of course they are! I wrote about how women have spent the last two decades (and really longer) calling out alienating, unbiblical evangelical rhetoric and politics. 1/x www.baylorpress.com/978148131893...
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The sudden swerve from the pursuit of undocumented immigrants to demanding the voter rolls has a whiff of panic. You can smell the burning rubber.
January 25, 2026 at 3:00 AM
The sudden swerve from the pursuit of undocumented immigrants to demanding the voter rolls has a whiff of panic. You can smell the burning rubber.
People on facebook suck
January 25, 2026 at 1:59 AM
People on facebook suck
I just asked this kiddo what I should make for dinner.
The answer: Things with cheese on them!
The answer: Things with cheese on them!
January 24, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I just asked this kiddo what I should make for dinner.
The answer: Things with cheese on them!
The answer: Things with cheese on them!
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prayers up for the real boys in blue (jeans) over the next week
January 24, 2026 at 12:14 AM
prayers up for the real boys in blue (jeans) over the next week
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Is the woman in the pink coat okay?
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Is the woman in the pink coat okay?
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What are we doing here
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
January 24, 2026 at 9:44 AM
What are we doing here
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
There's always a gender element
I think there's a gender element in this murder, too. In new vid, we see victim try to shield a much smaller woman a male ICE goon has violently knocked down. Goon enraged, focuses his attack on man shielding woman. As if enraged for showing up his masculinity, for revealing his hysteria.
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
There's always a gender element
Is the woman in the pink coat okay?
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Is the woman in the pink coat okay?
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@fritschner.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social I am *begging* you guys to realize how many of our problems are downstream of the mainstream media hating your guts and how many problems you've caused for yourself by refusing to act like it
Sean do you understand that by using Naughty Language, Jake Tapper will now say it was your fault? Or have you guys not figured out yet that the press hates your guts
January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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I would advise you to tell people that The New York Times doesn't give a shit about the Epstein files because Dash Sulzberger's dad is in them
January 24, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I would advise you to tell people that The New York Times doesn't give a shit about the Epstein files because Dash Sulzberger's dad is in them
I donate to this organization a couple times a year and I think they do great work getting cars to the working class in Asheville. If you have a little bit to give, please consider them.
workingwheelswnc.org
workingwheelswnc.org
Working Wheels | Donate your car. Change a life.
workingwheelswnc.org
January 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I donate to this organization a couple times a year and I think they do great work getting cars to the working class in Asheville. If you have a little bit to give, please consider them.
workingwheelswnc.org
workingwheelswnc.org
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Trey Nehls' butch act would be more believable if he didn't sound like he had just inhaled an entire Goodyear Blimp's worth of helium.
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
January 22, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Trey Nehls' butch act would be more believable if he didn't sound like he had just inhaled an entire Goodyear Blimp's worth of helium.
I wonder how soon we'll have to remove units/readings on slavery from our syllabi
President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.
The slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been removed following Trump administration push
www.inquirer.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I wonder how soon we'll have to remove units/readings on slavery from our syllabi
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I don't know what annoys me more: amazing papers that get lost because they have boring and easy to gloss over titles the leaves out the important part, or papers with amazing titles that absolutely can't deliver what they promise... sure, it's the latter, but still...
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
January 22, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I don't know what annoys me more: amazing papers that get lost because they have boring and easy to gloss over titles the leaves out the important part, or papers with amazing titles that absolutely can't deliver what they promise... sure, it's the latter, but still...
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
I really do think there's a lane for a Democratic presidential candidate who says we're really going to focus the intel and law enforcement power of the US government against this problem.
It's unbelievable to me that we KNOW enough about human trafficking to know when the two biggest events are every year, and yet we haven't mobilized national law enforcement to prevent it in any serious way
January 23, 2026 at 12:40 AM
I really do think there's a lane for a Democratic presidential candidate who says we're really going to focus the intel and law enforcement power of the US government against this problem.
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It's unbelievable to me that we KNOW enough about human trafficking to know when the two biggest events are every year, and yet we haven't mobilized national law enforcement to prevent it in any serious way
January 23, 2026 at 12:36 AM
It's unbelievable to me that we KNOW enough about human trafficking to know when the two biggest events are every year, and yet we haven't mobilized national law enforcement to prevent it in any serious way
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Weird kink but okay
Call me Ishmael.
January 22, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Weird kink but okay
I guess I need to watch One Battle After Another!
January 22, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I guess I need to watch One Battle After Another!
Christians who support this are following Trump more closely than they are following Christ
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
www.mprnews.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Christians who support this are following Trump more closely than they are following Christ
I love a good map
Trump's "Board of Peace" is just a list of countries where you can't safely drink tap water.
January 22, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I love a good map
Read this story by my friend/colleague Ben!
The Cages flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/01...
The Cages flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/01...
The Cages
A few weeks into the season, Alex and I drove off the mountain to try the new Sports Land in Wilkesboro. His batting still wasn’t progressing like we’d hoped, and our first game of the season was a…
flashfictionmagazine.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Read this story by my friend/colleague Ben!
The Cages flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/01...
The Cages flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/01...
Last semester my Discourse and Democracy students had to draft a "28th Amendment" and pitch it to the class. Guess what they came up with?
Group 1: Right to Privacy
Group 2: Right to Education
Group 1: Right to Privacy
Group 2: Right to Education
January 21, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Last semester my Discourse and Democracy students had to draft a "28th Amendment" and pitch it to the class. Guess what they came up with?
Group 1: Right to Privacy
Group 2: Right to Education
Group 1: Right to Privacy
Group 2: Right to Education
In a negative way if you're old, rich, and boring, maybe
Trump: "Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore. We can argue about it but there's no argument. Friends come back from different places and say, 'I don't recognize it.' And that's not in a positive way. That's in a very negative way."
January 21, 2026 at 4:16 PM
In a negative way if you're old, rich, and boring, maybe
Weather predictions for this weekend are bonkers. Either a reasonable 3-4 inches, or 27 INCHES EVERYONE GET INSIDE NOW!
January 20, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Weather predictions for this weekend are bonkers. Either a reasonable 3-4 inches, or 27 INCHES EVERYONE GET INSIDE NOW!
We no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace
January 20, 2026 at 2:05 AM
We no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace