Daniel Bentley
@danielbentley
Deacon, Episcopal Diocese of New York. Cultus Dei Sapientia Hominis.
New notecards have arrived! One of the best priests I know regularly writes thank you notes, for even the smallest of things, and I’ve seen how much they have meant to people.
Time for another game of: Wicca gorlie’s dorm room or Anglo-Catholic sacristy? 📕
Exploring the churchyard and stumbled across a saint of the church. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_C... 📕
On the anniversary of the Philadelphia 11, one of my favorite artifacts from the era of fighting for Women's Ordination: A signed copy of Pauli Murray's memoir address to Bp. Paul Moore of New York "With the prayers that some day you may be able to ordain me a priest in our Church." 📕
Education reporter discloses he never went to school. Health policy reporter discloses she's never seen a doctor.
Week 2 is my "explore every nook and cranny of the parish" week. Today I found the smol monstance in the tabernacle. 📕
I should be packing but I'm here having an existential crisis related to this answer to the question "what is something that will happen in the next 5 years but people are ignoring"
Yesterday we said goodbye to a truly special parish. I have been so blessed by these people. Church really does widen the circle of those you love. 📕
rather than shame any individual parish, I asked ChatGPT to ”make a flyer for an Episcopal church called St. Bluesky in the Swamp for their annual church picnic on July 7” this is what they all tend to look like 📕
I’ll be back next month but I’d love to be in NYC this week. I’m a Cavs fan but can’t hate on the Knicks and their fans.
In a shocking turn of events, it's the person I took four classes and hundreds of hours of conversation with: 📕
I'm at the point where I don't even need to read posts to see if they were produced by gen AI. I can visually spot them. e.g.