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This spooky season, we can all admit how terrorizing the ghost of inerrancy is. If I ever create a haunted house, it will definitely feature as the central fright.

I’m reading Charles Brigg’s address on The Authority of Holy Scripture. (He was a Bible Scholar who was tried for heresy & excommunicated by the Presbyterians in 1893 for these remarks.) Discussing the doctrine of inerrancy, he says, “It is the ghost of modern evangelicalism to frighten children.”

These are the best infographics of what has been revealed so far that I have seen. Thanks for making and sharing them.

A very dates feel for a very relevant topic

I’m not diminishing the need to talk about the vastness of Creation - that was not new in the 70s (see Psalm 8) nor is it irrelevant now or in the future - but the language we use to talk about it. Interstellar is a prime example. We just do not use that word the way we used to creating 1/x

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The other prayers successfully use contemporary language in a way that preserves the timeless quality of what is happening at the table, but C makes the imp inside me want to sneak “groovy” in place of the “Amen.”

By feeling so tied to a specific time, I always feel pulled out of the timelessness that characterizes the Eucharist.

Are there more 70s expressions than “vast expanse of interstellar space” or “this fragile earth, our island home”? The fact that people call it the Star Wars prayer is a clear indication that the language is too dated.

I know the theological conversation around Eucharistic Prayer C usually centers on the split epiclesis, but can we talk about the very dates language? It feels like the 1970s. Every time we pray it, I feel like we are getting a theological reflection on what inspired Sagan’s Cosmos.

Living for this thread!

My girlfriend, who is careful about how much news she consumes each day for mental health reasons, asked me if there was anything positive going on in the world after I gave a quick rundown of the horror that has been today. I scrolled for a bit and my bluesky feed did not disappoint. This is cool.

There are local vocal yokels who we know collect a crowd.

You will have to pry em dashes out of my cold, dead fingers.

The Once and Future Sex by Eleanore Janega

For some reason, Audible thinks that I have ADHD because I read a book about medieval ideas of gender, sex, and beauty… I mean, I do have ADHD, but… 😂

I was raised to be a soldier for the right (Teenpact, Generation Joshua, Leadership Institute, PHC, etc). My biggest shock as I left is how ignorant the left is re: the right’s organization, strategic, and well-funded cohesion. I have seen nothing on the left comparable or able to meet this reality

Letter from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe on Episcopal Migration Ministries Dear People of God in The Episcopal Church: I am writing today with some significant news about Episcopal Migration Ministries, the organization that leads The Episcopal Church’s refugee resettlement ...

This news is devastating and it will take years and hard work to repair what has been broken. With that said, I am grateful to belong to a church that stands with the marginalized and is choosing not to be complicit in oppression.

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Flyer for “Drag Me To Church” June 2023 at St. Luke Lutheran in Atlanta, GA

Finished my first “just for fun” book post seminary. bookshop.org/beta-search?...

It’s a good book and I recommend it. What made it particularly fun for me was getting to the last chapter and seeing the case study featuring an event I attended during Pride ‘23 her in ATL.

Congratulations and welcome. That is pretty neat indeed!

Completed one more step on the path to my calling. Seminary ✅

I am now officially The Reverend Dominique D. Deming, M.Div.

(Also, this whole adding things on to my name is getting addictive… I’m going to have to get a Ph.D. so I can add Dr. to it 🙃)

Screenshot of an email from the Candler School of Theology registrar. The pertinent words read “I am writing you to let you know that you have been cleared for graduation.”

It’s official. I have been cleared for graduation! *cue obligatory jokes about having mastered the divine*

If my theological education over the past three years has taught me anything, it is this.

Why is systematic theology one of my special interests and able to distract me from most things—except now that I need to finish a paper on Christology to graduate, the only thing my brain wants to do is read scholarly articles on the gender politics of the Assassin's Creed games?

Less is more, especially when it comes to movements and gestures. Be intentional about how and why you move and gesture and remember that movement attracts attention. All movements and gestures should direct attention toward God and table. Fewer gestures make the gestures you do more meaningful

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

It didn't even take a week for the facade to break.... It's not about protecting Christianity (as if the dominant religion in our country needs it), it is about promoting White Christian Nationalists and those Christians who want to pursue power over following Jesus

As if we needed proof that this admin's commitment to fighting "anti-Christian bias" excludes Christianities that fail to align with White Christian Nationalism and/or Christofascism

I'm in the diocese of Atlanta - feel free to DM me or let her know she can DM me. Lots of great options for her here - just need to know more about her specific location and any preferences she might have