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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Just a friendly (and somewhat smug) reminder, as Charles III makes his way to Washington, that California was never a British colony.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I'm proud to be a card-carrying member of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and on of the folks responsible for writing this prophetic denunciation of any military attack against Iran. Please read it and publish it abroad. www.presbypeacefellowship.org/presbyterian...

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Statement on Potential Military Actions Against Iran — Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Peace Church Working Group

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It is, alas the view of a country at war a nation let by an evil man in violent times.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

For the record: no appeals to patriotism and calls to "honor the troops" will get me to support the United States' profoundly evil invasion of Venezuela.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We yew, we happy yew, we band of brothers...

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Apparently the Justice Dept. is compiling a list of suspected domestic terrorists which will include those who advocate for open borders, something I've been doing for a long time, including in the introduction to "Neighbor" my award-winning book on immigration. Ms Bondi: put me on that list!

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Make no mistake: the drug causing the US war on Venezuela is neither cocaine nor fentanyl. It is the drug to which our automobiles are addicted.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Yea--you're probably correct. But that's too gross to contemplate 🤮

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

He seems to be doing ok. Thanks for asking.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Somehow, I doubt anyone on this chat will get treated as harshly as, say, the president of an Ivy League school where Students protested a genocide.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm hoping my forthcoming book puts me ahead of Donald Trump in line for the Nobel Peace Prize. Not that I think I'll win said award, but I do want to finish ahead of the guy who provokes and international incident every time an escalator doesn't work.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

From my forthcoming book, "Grace Over Guns," (due out June of '26).

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

More from my forthcoming book's rough draft. Incidentally, Herald Press has given my book a new title: "Grace Over Guns: Pursuing Peace in a Militarized World." It's set to be released in a year.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In which a sports business empire owned by a Roman Catholic, Italian American family buys a controlling interest in a soccer club with (and this is no exaggeration) the world most rabidly anti-Catholic fan base. Pass the popcorn. Things could get interesting. www.nytimes.com/athletic/639...

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49ers Enterprises purchases majority stake in Scottish club Rangers

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Clergy actually do pay taxes. Churches don’t. But his personal income is taxed. Not that accuracy matters on social media.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thank you. And it’s possible —imperative even—that we can oppose all totalitarian regimes regardless of political ideology.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This part will probably remain in my book...

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Now that is a question every author wants to answer! They are still in print and should be available to order wherever you buy books—Amazon or your local bookshop (the latter always being better for authors) thanks!

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Here's something I wrote from a book I'm writing. It's good, but it didn't work where I'd written it, so for now it's been cut from the book. It may yet make it back in, but for now, because I think it deserves to be read, I'm publishing it on social media.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Just did an interview for German radio. The journalist wanted to know what my progressive church is doing in the Trump 2.0. Here's the thing: it's clear that the German guy was scared about what was going to happen in the United States, and he was scared because he grew up in postwar Germany. Scary.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Just like in Narnia. The first thing Lucy saw in the land where it was always winter and never Christmas was a lamp post.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Interestingly if you were to write dumb fuck—weasels that would require not a hyphen but an n-dash (as opposed to an m-dash) which until recently I didn’t even know was a thing.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Honestly, I usually feel like I'm flying blind as I try to put one foot in front of the other, spiritually and emotionally. It's damn hard and I'm suffering from insomnia, but I'm doing what I can. Its all any of us can do.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Not really, but as a preacher I have a pulpit & I'm using it. I'm writing a book on pacifism, which feels like an antifascist thing to do. I'm trying to grieve without allowing the MAGAists to take my life's joy; I'm trying to be honest about things without surrendering my sense of hope.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We’re living through the end of the illusion of American Exceptionalism. Turns out we are as capable of evil as any other awful nation in human history. This is not a lesson I wanted to learn in such a concrete manner.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Further evidence of my forthcoming book.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I'm happy to say that after a ten-year hiatus from writing books, I'm back in the "Author" business. Thanks to a recently-signed deal with The Herald Press, I'll be writing a book on Christian Pacifism, due out next Spring. I'm so happy to be working on the next volume in my literary corpus.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

When do we change the name of New Mexico to "New America?"

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Question: now that English is the official language of the United Stated, so we have to call the Sierra Nevada the “Snowy Mountains?” And what about Mar a Lago?

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I made a quick visit to my hometown on Sunday. It's a rural and remote place on California's North Coast. Turns out the Federal Government has cut funding for meal programs that were providing food for low-income seniors. The area's programs are shutting down. That's Musk, keeping things classy.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I grew up in the redwood forest around a lot of people who knew how to use chainsaws. Even I, book loving, penny loafer–wearing, Presbyterian minister that I am, know how to use a chainsaw. Musk does not know how to use a chainsaw. This seems illustrative and on brand for the MAGA-hat crowd.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Agree. I'd rather someone sit at home posting protest than doing nothing. Also, the last chapter hasn't been written. Maybe participation on Social Media will lead to marching in the streets.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Here's a sermon I preached (or a re-recording of a sermon I preached) in which I exhorted Presbyterians to preach prophetically and pastorally in the Second Trump era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RNL...

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Preaching for Such a Time as This

YouTube video by Montclair Presbyterian

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So this is a real thing, apparently. I don't know if it makes me want to laugh till my sides hurt to howl into the void till my vocal chords rip. www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

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Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 (H.R. 1161)

To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland".

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