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Bishop Karen Oliveto

@bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social

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Pastor, prophet, scholar and retired #UMC bishop. Living north of the 49th parallel. She/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 2d

Loved it!!! I can’t believe how few thunder storms we had this summer.

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 3d

I love to hike. This trail in Oxford, known as the Bunny Trail, made me insanely happy.

(Future visitors be forewarned: this will be on the itinerary when you come visit us!)

Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 4d

You are the only YOU the world will ever know. Let your true colors shine!

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 6d

I had a little tickle in my throat for a couple of days…then I tested passive for COVID. Ugh! Laid me flat for almost 10 days. I hope your ailments fade quickly!

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I love that!!!

Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 6d

A minion!!! I love how much you love them!

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 7d

That joy is so needed in the public square. And if I’ve learned anything in the last 10 years it’s this: our joy is kryptonite to those who seek to oppress.

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 7d

Stay safe out there today, friends.

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 12d

With all that’s going on in the world, I find myself wanting to disconnect. But this is not the pathway to change and healing.
I read this and it hit me deeply:

“ I try now to approach each person, event, creature, with two questions: how are you my teacher? What am I meant to learn?”
(Joyce Rupp)

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve been invited to be a guest on several Mormon-related podcasts that are LGBTQ-affirming. The conversations have been rich as we seek to build inclusive faith communities.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

Bringing Ministry to the Margins (With Bishop Karen Oliveto)

Podcast Episode · All Out in the Open · 2025-10-07 · 42m

podcasts.apple.com

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 16d

Salt boat coming into the Pugwash harbour this morning, at low tide, no less!

Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 17d

I reposted it on my FB page. It’s already been shared 26 times. I’m glad people are reading it and taking a notice.

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks for posting this—such a painful but important read.

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 19d

Me!

Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 20d

Yes, they are! I spent every summer of my life in NS. It wasn’t until moving here full time in Sept 2024 that I learned they turn this colour it in the Fall. I love it!!!!

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 20d

Beautiful!

Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 20d

i thank You God for most this amazing
day (e e cummings)

A breathtakingly beautiful day in Nova Scotia.

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Peter in Vancouver 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈💉 @pjhvan.bsky.social · 21d

REMEMBER 1984
.. the novel not the year 🤣🤦‍♂️

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 21d

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.”

People of faith, we need to be standing up for and with our neighbors. Be prepared!

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 21d

Grateful to CLGS for the opportunity to present this lecture via zoom. For more info:

facebook.com/events/s/bis...

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 24d

#NDTR

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks for sharing a bit of your journey! You’re an inspiration!

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Elizabeth Kaeton @ekaeton.bsky.social · 27d

A Bishop, an Abbess, a Priest and a Deacon walk onto a cruise ship … (Bishop Karen, Barbara, Moi, and Robin)

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Sep 24

'How in the world could this happen to children?' Former residential school in Ontario to open as museum #Hamilton #Ontario

‘I want them to see what it's like,’ says residential school survivor

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'How in the world could this happen to children?' Former residential school in Ontario to open as museum | CBC News

The former Mohawk Institute — the longest-running residential school in Canada — is now called the Woodland Cultural Centre and is preparing to open to the public for the first time as a museum on Sep...

www.cbc.ca

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Bishop Karen Oliveto @bishopkarenoliveto.bsky.social · Sep 23

There’s no room for hate in a leader’s toolbox—or in their heart. Hate only corrupts the soul of the hater, and is a catalyst for division of the very people one seeks to lead.

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