I am so excited to get your feedback. And, for future reference, I now have a guest room, should your research bring you back to Denver!

Happy birthday to my book!!!!!

From my forever editor and champion!!!

Praise the Lord and plan the family In new book God Bless the Pill, CU Boulder scholar Samira Mehta delves into the often-forgotten history of how liberal religion helped make birth control

The Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine offered this lovely right up of God Bless the Pill.

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Thank you for boosting!

Thanks you!

Three Cheers for Contraception: PW Talks with Samira Mehta In God Bless the Pill (UNC Press, Apr.), the religion scholar was surprised to find many Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant clergy once actively promoted contraception as an instrument of family stabili...

Publisher’s Weekly did an interview with me about God Bless the Pill! @uncpress.bsky.social @hkyria.bsky.social @catehodorowicz.bsky.social

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I have never seen so many copies of #godblessthepill all in one place!

The Immanent Frame gave me the opportunity to reflect on aspects of God Bless the Pill that felt politically hard as I was writing.

Black & Jewish America: An Interwoven History | Official Extended Trailer YouTube video by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

I’m honored to be part of @HenryLouisGatesJr’s new series, BLACK AND JEWISH AMERICA: AN INTERWOVEN HISTORY. This unifying and powerful series premieres February 2026 on @PBS, and we encourage you to tune in. #BlackandJewishAmerica #InterwovenHistoryPBS
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The series also teaches like a dream. My students listened to the first two episodes for the last class before break and, as I said to Lynne, 3/4 of them cried while talking about the podcast in class. This podcast moved my students like nothing else this semester.

I have found it deeply engaging and moving--especially because, barring some memories of a college friend of my mother's and my mother's powerful grief and rage at his death, my own memories of AIDS as a deadly pandemic are hazy.

Everything that Lynne turns her hand to is impeccable scholarship, but this is deeply compelling public scholarship.

The most remarkable thing about the podcast is that Lynne has used hundreds of tapes of actual sermons/ church services, as well as historic and contemporary interviews with clergy, lay leaders, & members.

When We All Get To Heaven A queer church faces AIDS in 1980s and '90s San Francisco.

On this World AIDS Day, I would like to recommend a spectacular podcast about #theChurchWithAIDS. Lynne Gerber has created "When We All Get to Heaven," which is available through Slate and details the Metropolitan Community Church in the Castro during the AIDS crisis.
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The new North American Religion series editors at @nyupress.bsky.social! So excited to work with @apetro.bsky.social and Vaughn A. Booker!

I need to spell my whole oeuvre correctly! But this one is next (April 14, 2026).

Thank you so much for the shoutout, @theradr.bsky.social!

Beyond Chrismukkah The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was....

Thank you so much, @theradr.bsky.social! (I have to admit that when I saw the word seasonally appropriate, I thought we were talking about Beyond Chrisnukkah, but you are right about which one would be a better gift! uncpress.org/978146963636...,

God Bless the Pill is available for pre-order on the UNC Press site!

Thank you for sharing!

For wedding season….

The author of The Jew Who Would Be King makes an awesome vegetarian matzo ball soup.

Top text Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights, Today, God Bless the Pill: Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion, Below, left, photo of Samira Mehta, right text Samira K. Mehta, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder, March 9, 7 pm EDT, hybrid, 6:30 Dessert Reception at HBI, below text Brandeis, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Today! Join HBI at 7 pm (EDT) in person or online when @samirakmehta.bsky.social delivers this year's Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights, “God Bless the Pill: Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion”. bit.ly/HBIMarkowicz 1/

Top, text Brandeis, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights. Below, left, photo of Samira Mehta, right, text God Bless the Pill: Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion, Samira K. Mehta, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder, March 9, 7 pm EDT Hybrid

Join us tomorrow, March 9, 7 pm EDT in observance of International Women's Day for “God Bless the Pill: Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion” presented by @samirakmehta.bsky.social at HBI’s Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights. Hybrid. bit.ly/HBIMarkowicz

One thing Trump didn't talk about last night: his plans to abandon American women’s right to abortion care in medical emergencies.

I wonder why he wouldn't want anyone to know that.

I mean, I would like to see Katrina for the first time in 25 years.

That’s so lovely!

Boston friends, come and see me on Sunday night!