Rising on Substack this week: Faith & Spirituality

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

311k followers · #8 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+17 in 30 days 90 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

241k followers · #3 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+16 in 30 days 69 in all

35 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Shervin Youssefian

35k followers · #42 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+16 in 30 days 50 in all

42 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Biblical man

42k followers · #40 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+14 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 52 in all

29 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Hussain Makke

4.1k followers · #35 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days 17 in all

17 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Krystle Channel

15k followers · #29 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+12 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 50 in all

20 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

John Pavlovitz

86k followers · #6 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+12 in 30 days 59 in all

32 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

The Pillar

121k followers · #1 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days 56 in all

17 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Kathrin Zenkina

14k followers · #24 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days 50 in all

34 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Nabu

21k followers · #31 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days 50 in all

21 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

CosmicRx

1.2M followers · #88 Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days 50 in all

23 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Eslimah

9.2k followers · #20 Faith & Spirituality Rising

+9 in 30 days 9 in all

9 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.