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Rev David Casey OPA

@dpcasey74.bsky.social

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Epsicopal Priest and Dominican Friar, He/Him. Priest-in-Charge, St Mary’s Colonial Beach, Diocese of Virginia. Dysgwr Cymraeg🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Enjoys motorcyles, road trips, loves Jesus Parish website: https://www.stmaryscb.org

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 18h

To resist the temptation to mark all my emails as “read” and fall on the mercy of God we pray to the Lord ….

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 1d

That photo of the East Wing is some metaphor for these times.

Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 1d

Jagaroth FTW

Sophie Pilbeam 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophiepilbeam.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Sophie Pilbeam 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophiepilbeam.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Scaring. I promise this is funny if you’ve seen the episode in question.

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 2d

*deep breath*

The term Judeo-Christian is somehow both antisemitic and Islamophobic: it reduces Judaism to Christianity's predecessor on the one hand and implies only two Abrahamic religions on the other, when there are (at least) three

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 2d

2,000 people ain’t bad for a town of 30,000 people

www.fredericksburgfreepress.com/2025/10/19/n...

No Kings protest draws over 2,000 in Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg Free Press

Large, sign-wielding crowd comes out to protest actions of Trump administration.

www.fredericksburgfreepress.com

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bundgaardf.bsky.social @bundgaardf.bsky.social · 3d

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge

Sumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a Tshirt yesterday that said
No Kings
Yaass Queen!

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

Alternative: “Queens against Kings”

Shower Cat Love @shower-cat.bsky.social · 2d

Saw a drag queen yesterday at our protest; partner commented “no kings only queens” would be a good sign. NYC FTW.

Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 2d

Sings

You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace
The mountains and the hills will break forth before you
There’ll be shouts of joy and all the trees of the field
Will clap, will clap their hands.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a pic I found at the Facebook page Indivisible FXBG

Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 3d

It was pretty big for this town. They had us along a street for about 1/2 mile. Everyone was kind of in a line bc of sidewalks traffic and so on.

Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 3d

I was the only one in clericals today at the demonstration I went to which was odd.

Still the vibes were good and the crowd was extremely normie which is also very good.

I was trying to figure out the duck suits and cowbells but maybe I’m not supposed to.

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 4d

The black cop was clearly getting annoyed at all this theatre towards the end.

Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 4d

But even with that, plus the fact his boss is a car back, and the cop had his own DUI experience a couple of years ago … the forbearance showed to the driver is astounding.

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not entirely surprised to see the monroe county sheriff give the guy such patience. The number of DUIs in the keys on a daily basis is up there. So it’s just another day at the office.

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 4d

My man was stopped on the 7 mile bridge and said he was coming from Miami and going to islamorada.

Dude, islamorada is an hour behind you.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 4d

Based on my dealings w HW that checks out.

Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 4d

“Don’t go to seminary go to this bible college instead”

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 4d

I am pretty sure there is a through line from evangelicalism and fundamentalism eschewing biblical scholarship and this nonsense

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 4d

Request to please normalize not telling someone who is 51 years old they are “a baby” or “you’re so young.”

It’s not quite the compliment one might think.

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 7d

Broke: young people like conservative Christianity

Woke: young people like progressive Christianity

Bespoke: The Book of Common Prayer 1979 of the Episcopal Church represents conservative Christianity in every way that matters (sacraments, Creed), and progressive young people like it

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Many Gen-Zers “bring a new attitude to the combination of faith and politics, and many see politics as a matter of spiritual warfare,” writes Daniel K. Williams, a historian of American religion and politics.

Opinion | Why So Many Gen Z-ers Are Drawn to Conservative Christianity

And what that might mean for the future of American politics.

nyti.ms

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Rev David Casey OPA @dpcasey74.bsky.social · 9d

Fun fact: Christianity WAS in fact sneered at as a ‘religion of slaves and women’ by the Romans back in the day.

When I mentioned this in my early church history class folks minds were 🤯

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

there's genuinely quite a lot of 'christianity is a religion for losers' stuff on the new right and well yes! that is the point! it was a faith of slaves and women, as the romans sneered.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 9d

Donald- So I just admit that I was wrong and I get to go into heaven?

Jesus- Yes my child. I paid the price for your sins when I died on the cross

Donald- But I have to admit I was wrong?

Jesus- Yes my child.

Donald- I like messiahs who weren't crucified.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 9d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 10d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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