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Dave K

@revdavek.bsky.social
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Follower of Jesus. Seanchaí. Husband. “Bear” to my kids. Pentecostal Priest. Higher Ed Research Ethics Pro. “God’s Bulldog”

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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 23h
So…the hyper-alienation of the worker. What is most insidious is that beyond separating humans from good creation and good cultivation, this newer form isolates us from our very selves as we upload identity to hyper-reality and forget who we are when the audience is not on.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
QED, who says academics are above speaking in tongues? Or maybe we should blame the GI Bill. I’m not sure.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Call the vets” is my liturgical vesicle. 😂
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I truly have never understood the mindset of some folks with that.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SPS is similarly steady on the affordability, which I appreciate. Maybe a bit more than CTS, but I suppose that depends on membership cost.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In your life have you spent more hours waiting in the ED or doing ministerial hospital visitation?
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also can we acknowledge that the people in the back might move forward if they felt they were being taught something and could have a serious conversation about it?
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s bad when the old robber barons like Carnegie appear enlightened AF arguing for the educated working class decades ahead of these jag offs.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The LORD passed before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the 1000th generation, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty” Ex 34:6-7
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Man isn’t that the truth. I feel like it lost all significance after the liturgical and charismatic renewal movements.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What’s it to them if you complete your writing in 2-3 years part time instead of full time just because you’re well-prepared?
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ikr???? I’ve considered a UK program under someone’s supervision and it’s still on my bucket list. He advised me to do my reading of the field and have a clear idea of my writing before matriculation. With that program, you can matriculate part-time. But you’re paying for the time and supervision.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So most folks I know in that situation went the UK university research doctorate route— the Rev Drs. @laurenrelarkin.bsky.social and Porter Case Taylor (teaches at Fuller now) in particular.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tbf, England does seem to be the idealization of Saxon Christendom, which while inclusive has a cultural preference. Britain itself is historically diverse, with a landed archipelago of cultures navigating preservation, integration, and borrowing…in this essay, I will….
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That is carte blanche to pull up the lectionary and see what texts will be read all over the place. Because the unity of the Church is always on hearts held by the Spirit.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I need that at least. Ideal is 7. Haven’t gotten near the ideal in a long while.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My county is feeling a bit like it’s having a psychotic break since the overwhelming support of Trump is conflicting with the partnership against data centers across the board.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Will they have you back as a recent answer at some point?
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I know you and I are thinking of the same exact church in the Pittsburgh area….. Imagine my surprise to learn the same thing happened in Lynchburg 😅 The only mega church transition I’ve appreciated to date is Redeemer Presbyterian.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A parish I once served at had a venerable priest and seminary professor opine “the liturgy is nearly as inscrutable as the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.” 😂😂 Much of my time there (with the rector’s blessing), I slowly and gradually shifted their Sunday praxis to broad conformity
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Expedited.” TBC, I work in research ethics (IRB).
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Indeed. And a disproportionate number of split off sects that had to do with ecstatic body movement, simple/unordered worship spaces, and a vibe of “you can’t tell me what to do or when to do it. Or how.” Until the charismatic renewal gave those folks a place to exist, ya just got squeezed out.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
**blink** Man you gonna have to say that again. And again. This is so good.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I wonder if this is one of those areas where a Holland-esque study might conclude that the fact of Christianity influenced a shift in the way things are done. Like turning cultural mythmaking into hagiography.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
ask*
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wild. But also, like, how about folks as Greek Americans what it was like coming to the States because from the stories I’ve heard, you’d think white Americans wanted to avenge Troy.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Mine basically stopped showing up for work when I was 18. So, familiar. 😅
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Right. The crazy thing where, one part of the body needed a leg up for better function but need to balance out the part trying to do its job a little too well.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My fear is that an honest assessment would conclude we have put our best foot forward now and historically. We are just that bad.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Man, the downpour hit our carport as we left the house today and I looked at my wife and said, “Divine judgment?”
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I’ve had caterers assume I’m in charge. “Bro, I’m just here to make them legit.” But also, being in Lynchburg, I’ve now encountered an entire INDUSTRY of non-clergy officiants. And it’s bad copy bad.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Definitely a 5 under stress.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Kavanaugh, my old friend. Can’t tell him what to do.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
You can’t have profit without roti.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It’s like he decided to join because he thought there was a man in charge of the whole thing.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Meanwhile, at the local UMC me and my family attend, I can do and preach, and am recognized as a minister. And I’ve got all the paperwork to show I’m ordained in succession and duly licensed by my bishop but I can’t celebrate the sacraments there. 😆
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Tragic. Truly. But also….rare to come on a bishop of that sort who views anything outside of their diocesan pulpits as preaching. So, hang in there and keep an eye out for the opportunities…
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’ll get off my soapbox now.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
But don’t lay hands unless they are called. Don’t have laity preside at the sacraments. But every church needs a more robust ministry of the word and clergy cannot do that alone. Every bishop, priest and deacon needs the baptized to lead, pray, preach, and teach the Word.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Goodness. This is one issue with clericalism—at the end of the day, you try to ordain everyone. Restore the dignity of lay ministry. Methodists had a good run of them. And the Anglican lay reader, catechist and evangelist minor orders need a revival. Pay them. Discern with them. Work with them.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
…Rick Warren?
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. I couldn’t help myself.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So say we all.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ten years a deacon in the Lord’s Church. Ten years in holy orders, embracing the Pentecostal tradition that formed me, proclaiming the grace of the Triune God unhindered by my own works. Served by Christ, and serving Him who loved me till the end.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My very not evangelical kids enjoy them tho. 😂
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Congratulations!
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Sounds like the Community of Celebration / Fisherfolk.
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Is this progressive sanctification? 💁🏻‍♂️🦋
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Nobody can stop the Boomer Imposition!
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Dave K @revdavek.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
My experience with the Anglican theologian quiz from @theodramatist.com is a revelation. And seems oddly right.
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