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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The new Danny Go! track has a chorus that sounds like a TV on the Radio song but I can't pin down which one.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Y’all I get to bless animals next Sunday.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Smashing Pumpkins song "Zero" includes the line "And God is empty, just like me" which is a really beautiful summary of Philippians 2.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ok, but what if phones, but too much?

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People who take Year 8 history know how daft this argument is.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Learned that the Bayeux Tapestry isn't actually a tapestry and that's going to be my new go-to dull man fact.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I can think of exactly one appealing thing about being a bishop, and that is visiting Caribbean congregations.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can't believe the hawk priest and hawk Levite just left him there.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of the things I miss since moving from Washington D.C./NoVA back to NY is the pizza. I’m dead serious.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Very glad to hear the General Board of Examining Chaplains has changed the GOEs for next January and is moving to limited resources. I found some of this year’s Qs tested my ability to research quickly rather than integrate what I’ve learned. 📕

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Drafting a confirmation Bible study curriculum and its a real balancing act to teach the Bible as instruction for our faith and also, not hide some of the issues that the Bible creates for us in the instruction of faith.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ms. Rachel 2020: The lady who sings "Mama! Mama!" to children while parents are on work Zoom calls. Ms. Rachel 2026: The moral compass of the nation.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Diocesan photographer caught the moment I gave my first blessing. And I learned from a friend the name of this child. Thank you, little A, for being my first!

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Philosophical question raised by preparing to teach Bible to confirmation class. If the texts as received have typos (scribal errors) in them, and those typos have been preserved into translations for the past 2,500 years, is "fixing" the typo the right move for a modern translation?

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

These photos of me were taken 5 hours apart. Thankful for my Doordash driver for capturing what happens when the vestments come off and you're too tired to cook.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today is the Feast of the Holy Cross and I'm celebrating by not writing an Ember Day letter.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was ordained on Saturday by the Bishop of New York along with his Bishop Suffragan, the College of Presbyters, and a Golden Retriever named George. 📕

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Did the thing* *Led the praises of the people that God would do the thing 📕

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That sounds lovely. But I’m celebrating Mass twice this morning (for the first time 👀) and helping with you group this afternoon!

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s super ironic that for the “Season of Creation” we are wiping out whole forests to print massive service leaflets with bespoke liturgies. Want to honor creation? Just use the BCP. 📕

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mormon temples have these absolutely baller baptismal fonts and they don’t even use them for baptisms* *of people that are alive.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I remember counting down the days to my priestly ordination: 100 days, 50 days, a month, two weeks… Friends, it’s in 5 days. (And my life is chaos, so please Lord, help me out!) 📕

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I love that we have propers for Labor Day. Hey, twenty people that showed up for church today on a holiday weekend. Would you like to come back again tomorrow? 📕

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Amy-Jill Levine's scholarship has helped me be a better Christian and the attacks on her following her appointment as president of the Catholic Biblical Association are appalling.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anglo-Catholics help me out. Found a candlestick with a bell on it along with some liturgies for house blessings. What do I do with it? No the booklet is not helpful. 📕

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A man said, “O Messenger of Allah, should I tie my camel and trust in Allah, or should I leave her untied and trust in Allah?” The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Tie her and trust in Allah.”

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Part of my job is planning children's formation (something I've done but never been responsible for). This Sunday marks the launch of my revised "Children's Chapel" and we are making doorposts out of popsicle sticks and decorating them with red ribbons, paint and glitter "lamb's blood".

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As a diaper wearer, I am actually unconcerned about people who use toilets. I wear diapers. There will always be diapers. This is a potty problem.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just gave my last sermon as a deacon 😬

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yep. I see an analogy with Instagram There was a moment in 09/10 when people went HOGWILD with Instagram filters. Everything was processed to crap and all looked the same. Then by ‘12 or so, they were passé and #nofilter was in. This current era of AI slop is going to look like a Toaster filter

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rest in peace the king of Norway *sung to the tune of Praise my soul the king of Heaven

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Nobody should be detained without due process for non-violent immigration violations. Even terrible people who enjoy seeing other people rounded up in such a way.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sometimes have a struggle that two of the most famous lines in the Old Testament are not-so-great translations that Christians are kinda stuck with because they upset theological doctrines or New Testament hyperlinks. One of them comes up on Sunday: God said to Moses, “I AM who I AM"

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I can't remember another death prompting such a (deserved!) response.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

messing around on TikTok because there are evidently not enough Episcopal clergy on there! www.tiktok.com/@revbentley/...

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How I prep for sermons #episcopal #church #sermonclip #bible

TikTok video by Fr. Daniel Bentley

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@drewkadel.bsky.social Presding Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle was seminarian at St. James the Less.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I tend to not be so public about it these days but I am a Cleveland Browns fan and Mina nails it. This organization is a mess and I can't really engage until Watson is moved on. But alas, he's enabled.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Might be a riff here for a sermon on Sunday: The fire that consumes (evil, Isaiah 9:18) and the fire that does not (God).

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Kinda want to do an outdoor mass at her grave but her feast day is January 9.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Weird that the mayor of New York is actually doing stuff and not just taking trips to Turkey and dinner at Rao's.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interesting how fire became associated most closely with the devil when fire is one of the most common ways God appears in Scripture.

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