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Cassie E. Brown

@ozarkmisfit.bsky.social
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Writer & Tea drinker | Poetry, prose, essays, SFF & literary | www.ozarkmisfit.com | Episcopal lay preacher | Love God, my cat, my enemy, my neighbor, bourbon, music, sunsets, tea sets, healing & hospitality. All opinions are my own, not my employer’s.

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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 20h
Hey, #Narthex! I am heading to #TEC General Convention this Summer. Where are all the Weird Anglican Bluesky posters going to gather? Are we going to have buttons? A secret handshake? I want to say hi to y'all in person because y'all have made me more faithful! ⚓
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The blessed Dorothy Day understood the assignment ⚓️
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James @james-gallyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Blessed Feast of St. Michael and All Angels! ⚓
A colorful tattoo on someone's right shoulder and bicep of St. Michael the angel, scales in his left hand and a sword raised high in his right, with a 1920s caricature of a capitalist under his boot, gold coins spilling from his hands and a cigar in his mouth.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Should have recognized my calling as a preacher earlier. I have been doing that since I was 18.
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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#ToPray ✝️⚓️ Men who turn the consequences of the Fall into a blueprint for the church have mistaken the wreckage of Eden for the architecture of the Kingdom. (Wade Burleson)
Men who turn the consequences of the Fall into a blueprint for the church have mistaken the wreckage of Eden for the architecture of the Kingdom.

(Wade Burleson)
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The Rev. Keakealani @keakealani.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't love linking orthodoxy to liturgy - lots of our non-liturgical pals are part of this movement. My take: "The received doctrine is serious and true, and its only natural conclusion is radical, inclusive love."
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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dumb phones and watches that tick are looking increasingly tempting. I don’t want an “AI” dystopia. Would much prefer a reality in which human flourishing is prized. It’s just, you know, Christianity. ⚓️
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Dean: pronouns: thou, thee, thy/thine ᜋᜄᜈ᜔ᜇᜅ᜔ ᜄᜊᜒ @dean90815dean.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A Jewish scholar chosen to lead the Catholic Biblical Assn. is hit by antisemitic backlash www.latimes.com/world-nation... I love her JEWISH ANNOTATED NEW TESTAMENT. #TEC
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A Jewish scholar chosen to lead the Catholic Biblical Assn. is hit by antisemitic backlash
Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish scholar of Christian Scriptures, has faced antisemitic backlash after being elected the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Assn. of America.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Augustine— imperfect, weird, body-shaming Augustine—is central to this queer person’s conversion to Christianity. Reading Confessions after the loss of my sister was profound in ways that are beyond words. I don’t buy all of his theology. But I am moved intensely by his piety. 🕯️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Reading Facebook for 12 minutes reminds me why my social media of choice is bluesky. Granted, I miss family and neighbor pictures, but they are buried amidst so much high intensity, emotional, provoking garbage I cannot handle it.🕯️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My wild and wonderful Narthex community! What do you have on AI and TEC or Anglicanism? I am collecting info, reports, theology, etc. I have info from Methodists, ELCA, and Roman Catholics. Gimme gimme gimme. Feel free to DM me to connect to send me stuff. Thanks in advance. 🕯️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
So. This is a super silly *delightful* thought prompt. No shade to the creator And I still looked at it and went: $5.6B could end so much hunger and inequity. I ached and couldn’t finish the thought. I wish the world was ok enough I could think about art guiltlessly.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
[clears inbox to prepare for rejection]
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
DEI is popular and that drives some people insane
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
ProTip: before you write something like this, read literally anything about McCarthyism. See also: the Cultural Revolution, Stalin’s purges.
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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 06/08/2026
Because I've seen two clergy in the last day comment on how they've given up on universalism because of seeing the evil people do, I feel like I've got to reaffirm—for my fellow universalists out there—that Christian universalism is not about people being good enough but about God's faithfulness ⚓
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Grouchy Disciple @grouchydisciple.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In case it turns out to be exactly the thing you needed to hear today: Scott Dettra, Music Director at St. Peter’s in McKinney, TX chants the Daily Office beautifully on this free podcast of Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline. thedailyofficechanted.podbean.com 🕯️
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The Daily Office Chanted | Lawton Productions
<b>The Daily Office Chanted</b> is a podcast of Episcopal Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline from <span class="s1"><em>The Book of Common Prayer</em> (1979)</span>, sung in Gregorian chant.<...
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
May I request your prayers? Health stuff got weird and frightening today. ⚓️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Still actively looking for folks who want sermon support! Going live on some exchanging already. Happy to add folks as we go! Lay preachers especially welcomed!! ⚓️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
More of this please, everyone.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
10am went okay!!! ⚓️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My 8am guest preaching sermon is down. 10am to go. At least the priest liked it. lol ⚓️
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We have decided to remove a short story from Issue 153 of Apex Magazine. After meeting with our reading and editorial teams, we'd like to share with you what happened, and importantly, how we plan to move forward from here. Thank you for sticking with us. 💜👽
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A Christianity rooted in patriarchy will always define women first and foremost by their relationship to men. A Christianity rooted in the gospel of Jesus will see women first and foremost as human beings created in God's image. May we understand the difference.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Your last saved celebrity pic on your phone is your therapist. Look. He would be doing that anyway. Not just because I am his client.
Sheldon Cooper hyperventilating into a brown paper bag
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
⚓️ my siblings in Christ, things like this make me want to jump out of the boat completely. People ask me sincerely how can I belong to the same religion as people this rotten I am beginning to run out of answers. “This is heresy,” is straightforward, but shallow.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So heya Narthex ⚓... Are there any preachers on here (lay or clergy) who might be interested in doing sermon prep/exchanges/critiques? I'm offering myself for assistance as much as I am asking for help. I am sure most of you already have brain trusts or study groups, so maybe I'm the odd one out. 1/
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Tomorrow, my dad will have been gone for 18 years. It's absolutely amazing how much it still hurts. Dad was not an easy man, but he was a good man & I miss him.
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Cowboy with Grit
Alt: Sam Elliott tips his cowboy hat respectfully.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I realized this deserved its own boost. So hey... Miss my grandparents. Grandma was amazing.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Someone is saying this already… right?
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hot take for USA soccer. Pull a Ted Lasso. **Don’t play the suspended-unsuspended player against Belgium**. Just bench him. Don’t benefit from politics and besmirch your name. Don’t make the world hate us more. Be bigger, kinder, and show them CLASS. Don’t be owned. Be amazing. WIN OR LOSE.
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Jonathan Quinn (they/them) @jmquinn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I get that church staff are overworked, and so using AI for flyers is tempting 🕯️ But it’s hard to overstate the antipathy a lot of millennials/gen Z have for AI When I see an AI flyer, (1) I don’t want to go to the event (2) My perception of the integrity/trustworthiness of that church takes a hit
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yeah. Can we … not?
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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The board of @forwardmovement.org has adopted an AI values statement to guide our work. Very pleased with this! TL; DR people make our stuff, not machines ⚓️ forwardmovement.org/ai-values-st...
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Values Statement on Artificial Intellegence – Forward Movement
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So I'm behind on my Narthex, so apologies if someone has already said this one. But like, our OT reading for today hit me in the close read today (Genesis 22)... What the heck??? "He [GOD] said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac..." Ishmael says what? ⚓
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Please! Won’t someone think of (stopping those freaking) billionaires?
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Think of the Children (Simpsons)
Alt: Mrs. Lovejoy (The Simpsons) simpers “Think of the Children” while engaging in some overwrought handwringing and, metaphorically, pearl-clutching.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Please pray for my community as we are living through these times. ⚓️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Okay, okay. Don’t shout at me. Now that my cat is fed, I am gonna head back to the @marthawells.com Murderbot series and the audio of the new @nnedi.bsky.social which are wearing the groove back.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It is good to be reminded of the goodness here. Bitterness and cynicism isn’t worth working and struggling for.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yup. We do.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF
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Lisa Simpson: What Does That Even Mean?!
Alt: Lisa Simpson yells at an indifferent Bart over a pile of correspondence, "WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!" while shaking her head in disbelief and frustration, as one does at reality
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Portals #1 opens to submissions on June 22nd at 12:01 am Eastern! Co-editors Jess and Angel are looking for speculative horror fiction and poetry by trans/nonbinary authors. GUIDELINES: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/... Find their wishlists below, plus more details in the quoted thread! (1/3)
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Got dizzy and lightheaded serving at the altar. God bless my priest and fellow acolyte/LEM for rolling with it and swapping me out of nearing the chalice without any fuss. I just suddenly felt sort of unsteady. Disaster averted? ⚓️
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JayTheAnglican @anglicancanada.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Your daily reminder that God created LGBTQ people and we belong in Gods house also. Happy Pride. God bless. 🙏🏿⚓️🏳️‍🌈✝️❤️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I hurt. My priest was abroad, & after returning our church celebrated 10 years of her ordination & service as our rector. I waited for about a week after that to have a painful pastoral conversation with her, because she deserved the space to ride those joys. Clergy buds, PRAISE ME! That's all LOL ⚓
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JayTheAnglican @anglicancanada.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Combating hate with hate never works. We need to combat hate with love and hospitality. ⚓️
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@dljohnston.bsky.social is something Very Wrong with the narthex feed or has my app gone wrong??
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is total horseshit.
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just finished THE EVERLASTING by @alixeharrow.bsky.social which was absolutely AMAZING... Now my local independent bookstore in rural Missouri @bazoobooks.bsky.social would like me to interview Harrow via email for the Bazoo Blog. What's the best way to get in touch with the author for this?
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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
So. Please pray for me and for my now ex. Things are extremely raw and tense right now. ⚓️
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