diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 5f7d48804..3bc01751a 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ gem "emoji_regex", "~> 2.0" # A pair of Ruby regular expressions for matching Un
 gem "envied", "~> 0.9" # Ensure presence and type of your app's ENV-variables
 gem "fastly", "~> 1.15" # Client library for the Fastly acceleration system
 gem "fastly-rails", "~> 0.8" # Fastly dynamic caching integration for Rails
-gem "feedjira", "~> 2.2" # A feed fetching and parsing library
+gem "feedjira", "~> 3.0" # A feed fetching and parsing library
 gem "figaro", "~> 1.1" # Simple, Heroku-friendly Rails app configuration using ENV and a single YAML file
 gem "fog-aws", "~> 3.5" # 'fog' gem to support Amazon Web Services
 gem "front_matter_parser", "~> 0.2" # Parse a front matter from syntactically correct strings or files
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index efab441be..f17666c54 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -323,10 +323,8 @@ GEM
     fastly-rails (0.8.0)
       fastly (~> 1.6)
       railties (> 2, < 6)
-    feedjira (2.2.0)
-      faraday (>= 0.9)
-      faraday_middleware (>= 0.9)
-      loofah (>= 2.0)
+    feedjira (3.0.0)
+      loofah (>= 2.2.1)
       sax-machine (>= 1.0)
     ffi (1.10.0)
     figaro (1.1.1)
@@ -875,7 +873,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   faker (~> 1.9)
   fastly (~> 1.15)
   fastly-rails (~> 0.8)
-  feedjira (~> 2.2)
+  feedjira (~> 3.0)
   figaro (~> 1.1)
   fix-db-schema-conflicts (~> 3.0)
   fog-aws (~> 3.5)
diff --git a/app/services/rss_reader.rb b/app/services/rss_reader.rb
index 750a39408..ebb90d393 100644
--- a/app/services/rss_reader.rb
+++ b/app/services/rss_reader.rb
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class RssReader
 
   def fetch_rss(url)
     xml = HTTParty.get(url).body
-    Feedjira::Feed.parse xml
+    Feedjira.parse xml
   end
 
   def make_from_rss_item(item, user, feed)