Diana Butler Bass
@dianabutlerbass · The Cottage · Substack profile · Faith & Spirituality
Diana Butler Bass has 120,014 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #4 on Substack's Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers board. 69 publications recommend them, 5 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 42.
Followers read · Boards read
Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 120,014
- read Nov 1
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- not shown
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- Thousands
- bestseller badge 1,000+
- Recommended by
- 69
- +5 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 42
- Bestsellers rank
- #4
- Faith & Spirituality
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | 120,014 | +16 | Thousands | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 119,998 | Thousands |
Leaderboard positions
| Board | Rank now | Best on record | Reads on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers | #4 | #4 | 4 of 4 |
| Faith & Spirituality Rising | #2 | #2 | 2 of 4 |
Rank on each read
| Writer | Oct 3107:00 | Oct 3113:00 | Oct 3119:47 | Nov 621:50 | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Faith & Spirituality Rising | 7 | 2 | ▲5 |
I read every board once a day.
Recommendations
69 publications recommend Diana Butler Bass; 4 started in the last 30 days. Diana Butler Bass recommends 42, and 12 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2022-04 | 3 |
| 2022-05 | 1 |
| 2022-06 | 2 |
| 2022-10 | 1 |
| 2023-05 | 1 |
| 2023-06 | 1 |
| 2023-07 | 1 |
| 2023-08 | 1 |
| 2024-05 | 2 |
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 11 |
| 2026-07 | 16 |
| 2026-08 | 10 |
| 2026-09 | 8 |
| 2026-10 | 6 |
Recommended by
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Sarah Bessey104k followers · started Oct 2022 · mutual
Jemar Tisby, PhD96k followers · started Dec 6, 2025 · mutual
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Kristin Du Mez89k followers · started May 2022 · mutual
Jared Yates Sexton86k followers · started Apr 2022 · mutual
Tripp Fuller83k followers · started May 2024 · mutual
Katharine Hayhoe69k followers · started Aug 2023 · mutual
Carrie Newcomer33k followers · started Jun 2022 · mutual
Odds and Enns26k followers · started Jul 2023 · mutual
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All 69
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Anne Lamott172k followers · started Oct 2025- Sarah Bessey104k followers · started Feb 2023 · mutual
- Jemar Tisby, PhD96k followers · started May 2024 · mutual
- Kristin Du Mez89k followers · started May 2022 · mutual
- Jared Yates Sexton86k followers · started May 2022 · mutual
- Tripp Fuller83k followers · started Jun 2024 · mutual
- Katharine Hayhoe69k followers · started Aug 2023 · mutual
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- Odds and Enns26k followers · started Aug 2023 · mutual
- Word&Way26k followers · started Jun 2022 · mutual
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All 42
- The Woodlands: A place to explore the way of Jesusstarted Nov 2023
- Cultivating Communitiesstarted Nov 2023
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- The Half Marathonerstarted Feb 2023
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- I'm Listeningstarted Sep 2022
- The Lo-Fi Gospel Minutestarted Aug 2022
- Work/Craft/Lifestarted Jul 2022
- The Post-Evangelical Poststarted Jun 2022
- The Truth Is...started Jun 2022
- Cathleen Falsani: This Numinous Worldstarted May 2022
- Dark Matterstarted May 2022
- God's Politics with Jim Wallis started May 2022
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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Publications that recommend at least two other Faith & Spirituality writers with 50,000 or more followers (26 writers in that group), but not Diana Butler Bass.
- recommends 5 of them
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