I’m putting this well-written book into the next class I teach. It’s great! I bought the hardback.

My review of a book I wouldn’t actually recommend. Good pastors who are good writers are rare. Either too relational to do the solo work of writing, or too good at hearing themselves talk to carry on an interesting dialogue with a reader. www.maverickindependentreview.com/post/by-the-...

Trans people in the news today… not the ones you think. Trans people of faith! www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/05/o...

New book: A transgender minister reflects on the fundamentalist faith of his closeted gay father who died of AIDS in the theopoetic memoir “Reading Secrets: A Queer Inheritance of Life and Scripture” by Malcolm Himschoot @liftupvalleys.bsky.social. #faithfullyLGBT www.amazon.com/dp/196351114...

Maybe James Dobson didn’t like my book www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/05/o...

My book listed among New LGBTQ Christian Books in 2025, from our friends at Q Spirit: qspirit.net/lgbtq-christ...

I have the same pet peeve @boldroastrev.bsky.social

One author here reviewing another author’s book. Because he too is a pastor, I hope that author’s people are reading @annelamott.bsky.social from whom he got the inspiration for his title! www.maverickindependentreview.com/post/by-the-...

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

“Let the world see what I have seen.” - Mamie Till

Reviews are coming in for my book Reading Secrets - A Queer Inheritance of Life and Scripture. This is not one of them. But it could be adjacent.

Thank you @charlotteclymer.bsky.social This bit will feature in my next confirmation class for adults!

A diverse group — faith leaders, college students, grandmothers, retired lawyers and professors — has been showing up at immigration courts across the nation to escort immigrants at risk of being detained for deportation by masked ICE officials.

I feel fully caught up now watching this. Sadder. Wiser. Josh Johnson, comedian speaking what’s true about humankind. Loss of trust does not “just go away.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5M1...

His theology of suffering & mine are not the same -- that's OK. Regardless, this is the work -- to go to the depths of your heart and pain and come out with more love (optional: and more divine connection.) There are a lot of theologies and ways to get there; they don't all have to look the same.

My book launched last night. Here is a not-unrelated headline: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

#NoKings Jesus turned down a crown.

New works by Kate Bernstein, Jay Michaelson, and me! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Half of Bangor Pride Month is yet to come! My book launch is on the calendar, June 24th. I am amazed by the love and community that organizers are putting into this, and grateful that courage is contagious. www.bangorpride.com/pride-events

At a reading last night for Reading Secrets: A Queer Inheritance of Life and Scripture, I met another poet who did their thing including fierce reclaiming of body and performing theology as an art! @aurelialeepoetry on Insta

NEW: All Texas public elementary or secondary schools “must display in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments.” Bring on the lawsuits!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Writer Rebecca Solnit introduces her new book at the bottom of this sobering column, which keeps us reading til the end. The reward for reading to the end is to see her stack of beautiful titles in multi colored array - a celebration of thoughtful publishing. May the pen be mightier than the sword!

I’m a trans man, a Christian minister, an anti-authoritarian author, and I preached a sermon about it. www.youtube.com/live/8pl12Du...

Full story on the arrest of Rev. William Barber and two others as they prayed in the U.S. Capitol today: “Just as Jesus turned over the tables of the money changers, so we have to be willing to put our bodies on the line,” Barber told me after he was released. religionnews.com/2025/04/28/w...

Turns out, April is National Poetry Month! Here is a preview from my book Reading Secrets - A Queer Inheritance of Life and Scripture

The dehumanization started long before trans people. Trans people by defending our humanity will not win this. How do we push past? Looking at issues intersecting in our lives means looking at generations of harm. Here’s my effort: liftupvalleys.com

Last year Miss Major’s memoir came out: www.versobooks.com/products/278... This year she called me to tell me she’s proud of me for publishing mine

“I don’t think we have to live with all this poverty in America,” our founder Matthew Desmond told Jon Stewart on @thedailyshow.com Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/KoLN0YoErK0

“People are doing things.” Have you dropped in yet on the 24-hour livestream of Black leaders giving the “State of the People”? This is an extraordinary gathering of leaders, activists and journalists. Will go on until midnight tonight. Get on it! stateofthepeople.media

grateful to be among the collaborators in this timely teach-in event against transphobia on March 4, co-organized by Karri Whipple Alldredge @karrialldredge.bsky.social and Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social !! please share, circulate, sign-up, and strategize!!

I love this poem! #booksky www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Positive media after an event for my book: Reading Secrets - A Queer Inheritance of Life and Scripture dailyillini.com/life_and_cul...

Spent last evening with 65 intrepid people in the Champaign, IL community, who told me my art book puts heart space around the deep problems of our time

Y'all....this is happening. Rev. Malcolm Himschoot talks with Rev. Nicole Havelka about his trans journey, theology, authoritarianism, and challenging relationship he had with his father at Queering Faith 8, an annual event of UCC Campus Ministry at UIUC, ghosted at Community UCC.

Feeling adventurous and all the feels that go with that. Is it a perilous time to go public with a trans view of the Bible? Or the best possible time? My advance review copies came today!

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

I oppose everything about this. Pastors everywhere can recognize bibliolatry and self-enrichment at other people’s expense.

"I'm living now and midnight is slipping into tomorrow. And tomorrow? Good God. Tomorrow opens like a gasp."

I’m an anti-authoritarian author, a trans person who became a pastor. I’ve been out for 20 years. My book comes out in June. #booksky liftupvalleys.com

Some of us are tuning in for Armageddon. Some of us are over here promoting our new book which is about how to get free from Armageddon. Seriously, an anti-authoritarian memoir by a trans person who became a pastor. I’ve been out for 20 years. My book comes out in June. liftupvalleys.com

Some of us are tuning in for Armageddon. Some of us are over here promoting our new book which is about how to get free from Armageddon. Seriously, an anti-authoritarian memoir by a trans person who became a pastor. I’ve been out for 20 years. My book comes out in June. liftupvalleys.com