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Elizabeth Glass Turner ❄️
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Writer, editor, researcher; curates FireFall, a newsletter amplifying women leading in the church across traditions, around the world, & throughout church history.

elizabethglassturner.substack.com/
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Since it must be said loudly & repeatedly:

With many others, I'm an American celebrating international friendship, allies who safeguard freedom, & collaboration that respects:

🇨🇦 Canada
🇬🇱 Greenland
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇵🇦 Panama
🇪🇺 European Union
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇺🇳 United Nations
Any time someone calls European leaders "weak"

when leaders like Ms. von der Leyen (mother of seven!), Ms. Metsola, Ms. Kallas, and other women are at the fore,

remember that misogyny is a common connective tissue of coalitions of the corrupt, incompetent, domineering, and fearful.
Last year, the EU adopted its first-ever law to fight violence against women and domestic violence.

But this is not the end of the story.

Tonight, Europe shines orange as a reminder of our responsibility:

To ensure every woman can live without fear.

#OrangeTheWorld
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reminder for U.S., how limited our news coverage has been for years. There's an entire world outside of US dysfunction.

What's strange: seeing how robust (imperfect, often biased, but extensive) int'l coverage was in papers ~90-130 yrs ago.

Often western pov, but at least they included map insets.
Welcoming the Vice Minister for Commerce for Thailand, H.E. Ms Kirida Bhaopichitr, on the occasion of Thailand’s Trade Policy Review. Focused on the opportunities facing Thailand in world trade as well as the necessity for important structural reforms to unleash economic growth. (1/2)
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Well the Geo W Bush Pres Center just came out swinging (policy wonkly speaking).

Points out funding source of a certain fringe ultranationalist German group that had reps in DC recently.

www.bushcenter.org/publications...
Strategic Corruption: Russia in Europe | George W. Bush Presidential Center
www.bushcenter.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Anyone have legal history / women's history info on:

whether or not suffragists who sued for damages re: illegal transfer & brutality (1917) followed through w/ suits.

Govt kept requesting delays thru 1919, hoping suits would be dropped if vote was won in 1920.

Did they win suits or drop them?
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by Elizabeth Glass Turner ❄️
Via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: CBP posted a pic of two detained Iranians, saying, “No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present.”

According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
Priest says sisters slated for deportation are Christians who could face persecution by Iran
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We all feel a wound in our body of Christ, knowing what’s happening to them,’ said the Rev. Fran Gardner-Smith.
religionnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
At least two women pastors in rural Wenatchee, Washington before 1925, but sure, women ministers are the result of the 1970s...

There were women minister conferences in the U.S. in the 1880s, by the way.
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When something like 20% of a country likely has a range of post-viral syndromes & symptoms from mild to debilitating,

including fatigue, depression, & brain fog,

you get the 1920s context for rise of int'l fascism

and Dorothy Thompson commenting in the early 30s that many Germans were very tired.
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Elizabeth Glass Turner ❄️
Our digital systems reward belonging over accuracy, with people gaining status by aligning with their group, not by checking facts. Once beliefs become tied to identity, more media literacy won’t shift behaviour, the social rewards run against work against it.
December 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Aaand there it is.

"Pliley teaches a course on the history of women in the U.S. about 'women’s activism, work, & the abolitionist & women’s rights movements,' among other historical topics. 'AI was upset with my use of women’s activism or women’s rights movements.’ It suggested a 'neutral' option."
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”

Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Reposted by Elizabeth Glass Turner ❄️
Shame them. Shame CNN.

"One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation."

Have nothing to do a company going into business with these repugnant people.

Boycott.

Do not speak to CNN.

If it happens once, it'll go everywhere.
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"And Mary said ‘My soul magnifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices. He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
HE HAS BROUGHT DOWN THE POWERFUL FROM THEIR THRONES & LIFTED UP THE LOWLY; FILLED THE HUNGRY WITH GOOD THINGS & SENT THE RICH AWAY EMPTY.'"
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A few years ago, I worked with an author who spent several years pastoring a rural church in Michigan.

She had to get creative with sermons, weekly worship, powerpoint, discipleship classes -

because illiteracy was so high.

A significant percentage of her church was illiterate or at 3rd gr level.
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I love you beautiful nerds.

Bluesky often has the feel of a table in the corner of the campus library at exam time.
Feeling festive?
Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases.
Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
#scicomm #sciart #decorations
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
OH MY GOSH I just found the history info I needed for a church on their old website backend someone left public on Github. It came up prominently in search results.

People. I am begging. 😂
If I have to navigate away from your church website to try to find information on your congregational or building history,

it might behoove your website person to add a "history" tab.

Some people actually do want to know! Don't make it harder for anyone to learn about your congregation. 😁
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If I have to navigate away from your church website to try to find information on your congregational or building history,

it might behoove your website person to add a "history" tab.

Some people actually do want to know! Don't make it harder for anyone to learn about your congregation. 😁
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Reminder that Sec of Labor Frances Perkins was also head of immigration, faced impeachment threat simply for allowing due process to be followed, was criticized by Fr Coughlin on the radio (her & her hat), and was the center of a bizarre birther conspiracy.

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
These aromatic little cookies are delightful.

Orange, cloves, olive, oil, cinnamon…

Without glaze, they’re almost not sweet enough.

With glaze?

Perfect with deep, rich, echoey coffee that practically rumbles when you pour it.

Not a kid favorite.

Enjoy.

www.eatthelove.com/best-christm...
Best Christmas Cookie | Christmas Cookie Recipe | Eat the Love
If you're looking for the best Christmas cookie recipe, look no further, these glazed orange cookies with cinnamon and cloves are THE taste of Christmas!
www.eatthelove.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Elizabeth Glass Turner ❄️
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I was tired and my brain burped up "Howard's Moving Castle" instead of "Howl's Moving Castle" and now I want to read pitches for something called "Howard's Moving Castle."
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I dislike Annunciation portrayals of Mary as demure, shy, anemic.

For one thing, she argued with an angel about biological evidence. She also told Jesus when to launch his ministry.

Anyway, don't read the Magnificat like it's anemic, either.

If anything, it's a haka.

youtu.be/adoUALAYt2o?...
New Zealand: MPs perform Maori Haka to protest against a controversial bill
YouTube video by ThePrint
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Elizabeth Glass Turner ❄️
ACEGID trained over 1,500 people from 48 African countries.

Impact "was evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Feb 2020, ...hospitals that ACEGID worked with in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Senegal had COVID diagnostics before any U.S. hospital...Africans sequenced over 100,000 coronavirus genomes."
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Reposted by Elizabeth Glass Turner ❄️
Can’t believe they missed the open goal of ‘Escar-gone!’ as the headline here
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Susanna Wesley's letter to Samuel gets quoted a lot but only recently did the depth of her ire become clear to me -

bc the digitized letter shows her handwriting grows large & sprawling at the [Methodist] famous part.

That's just via digitized, not the actual artifact that's all the more valuable.
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
A new dollop of earnest gratitude, because I'm living bonus days-

I am thankful for:

@aetiology.bsky.social 's work honoring women who saved lives

@agatumilowicz.bsky.social 's photos that transport me

@sherinswift.com's ability to discern where to focus

Thank you for making this planet better.
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This morning's random dollop of earnest gratitude, because I am living bonus days-

I am thankful for:

@karanslade.bsky.social 's approachability & humor

@jcsalterego.bsky.social's upper-classman inside-joke energy

@annabower.bsky.social 's focus amid chaos (WITAOD)

You make this planet better.
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM