The Rev. D
@dddeming.bsky.social
Queer Christian. Deacon in the Episcopal Church. M.Div. Gargoyle. Neurospicy. D&D. Gamer. Roommate to two black cats.
I’m reading Charles Brigg’s address on The Authority of Holy Scripture. (He was a Bible Scholar who was tried for heresy & excommunicated by the Presbyterians in 1893 for these remarks.) Discussing the doctrine of inerrancy, he says, “It is the ghost of modern evangelicalism to frighten children.”
October 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I’m reading Charles Brigg’s address on The Authority of Holy Scripture. (He was a Bible Scholar who was tried for heresy & excommunicated by the Presbyterians in 1893 for these remarks.) Discussing the doctrine of inerrancy, he says, “It is the ghost of modern evangelicalism to frighten children.”
I know the theological conversation around Eucharistic Prayer C usually centers on the split epiclesis, but can we talk about the very dates language? It feels like the 1970s. Every time we pray it, I feel like we are getting a theological reflection on what inspired Sagan’s Cosmos.
September 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I know the theological conversation around Eucharistic Prayer C usually centers on the split epiclesis, but can we talk about the very dates language? It feels like the 1970s. Every time we pray it, I feel like we are getting a theological reflection on what inspired Sagan’s Cosmos.
My girlfriend, who is careful about how much news she consumes each day for mental health reasons, asked me if there was anything positive going on in the world after I gave a quick rundown of the horror that has been today. I scrolled for a bit and my bluesky feed did not disappoint. This is cool.
Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
August 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
My girlfriend, who is careful about how much news she consumes each day for mental health reasons, asked me if there was anything positive going on in the world after I gave a quick rundown of the horror that has been today. I scrolled for a bit and my bluesky feed did not disappoint. This is cool.
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There are local vocal yokels who we know collect a crowd.
August 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
There are local vocal yokels who we know collect a crowd.
You will have to pry em dashes out of my cold, dead fingers.
That's how you can tell human authors from AI.
AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.
Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.
AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.
Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.
Em dashes, like anything, should be used in moderation. Check first with your editor if em dashes are right for you. 😉
#WriteSky #WritingTips
#WriteSky #WritingTips
August 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
You will have to pry em dashes out of my cold, dead fingers.
For some reason, Audible thinks that I have ADHD because I read a book about medieval ideas of gender, sex, and beauty… I mean, I do have ADHD, but… 😂
June 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
For some reason, Audible thinks that I have ADHD because I read a book about medieval ideas of gender, sex, and beauty… I mean, I do have ADHD, but… 😂
I was raised to be a soldier for the right (Teenpact, Generation Joshua, Leadership Institute, PHC, etc). My biggest shock as I left is how ignorant the left is re: the right’s organization, strategic, and well-funded cohesion. I have seen nothing on the left comparable or able to meet this reality
The person who led my breakout group was describing how surprised she and other LGBT+ leaders were at how organized and well funded the right wing was.
My dear where have you been? Are you sure it’s Virginia?
My dear where have you been? Are you sure it’s Virginia?
May 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I was raised to be a soldier for the right (Teenpact, Generation Joshua, Leadership Institute, PHC, etc). My biggest shock as I left is how ignorant the left is re: the right’s organization, strategic, and well-funded cohesion. I have seen nothing on the left comparable or able to meet this reality
This news is devastating and it will take years and hard work to repair what has been broken. With that said, I am grateful to belong to a church that stands with the marginalized and is choosing not to be complicit in oppression.
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Letter from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe on Episcopal Migration Ministries
Dear People of God in The Episcopal Church: I am writing today with some significant news about Episcopal Migration Ministries, the organization that leads The Episcopal Church’s refugee resettlement ...
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May 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This news is devastating and it will take years and hard work to repair what has been broken. With that said, I am grateful to belong to a church that stands with the marginalized and is choosing not to be complicit in oppression.
tiny.cc/oqjj001
tiny.cc/oqjj001
Finished my first “just for fun” book post seminary. bookshop.org/beta-search?...
It’s a good book and I recommend it. What made it particularly fun for me was getting to the last chapter and seeing the case study featuring an event I attended during Pride ‘23 her in ATL.
It’s a good book and I recommend it. What made it particularly fun for me was getting to the last chapter and seeing the case study featuring an event I attended during Pride ‘23 her in ATL.
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May 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Finished my first “just for fun” book post seminary. bookshop.org/beta-search?...
It’s a good book and I recommend it. What made it particularly fun for me was getting to the last chapter and seeing the case study featuring an event I attended during Pride ‘23 her in ATL.
It’s a good book and I recommend it. What made it particularly fun for me was getting to the last chapter and seeing the case study featuring an event I attended during Pride ‘23 her in ATL.
Completed one more step on the path to my calling. Seminary ✅
I am now officially The Reverend Dominique D. Deming, M.Div.
(Also, this whole adding things on to my name is getting addictive… I’m going to have to get a Ph.D. so I can add Dr. to it 🙃)
I am now officially The Reverend Dominique D. Deming, M.Div.
(Also, this whole adding things on to my name is getting addictive… I’m going to have to get a Ph.D. so I can add Dr. to it 🙃)
May 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Completed one more step on the path to my calling. Seminary ✅
I am now officially The Reverend Dominique D. Deming, M.Div.
(Also, this whole adding things on to my name is getting addictive… I’m going to have to get a Ph.D. so I can add Dr. to it 🙃)
I am now officially The Reverend Dominique D. Deming, M.Div.
(Also, this whole adding things on to my name is getting addictive… I’m going to have to get a Ph.D. so I can add Dr. to it 🙃)
It’s official. I have been cleared for graduation! *cue obligatory jokes about having mastered the divine*
May 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It’s official. I have been cleared for graduation! *cue obligatory jokes about having mastered the divine*
If my theological education over the past three years has taught me anything, it is this.
May 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If my theological education over the past three years has taught me anything, it is this.
Why is systematic theology one of my special interests and able to distract me from most things—except now that I need to finish a paper on Christology to graduate, the only thing my brain wants to do is read scholarly articles on the gender politics of the Assassin's Creed games?
May 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Why is systematic theology one of my special interests and able to distract me from most things—except now that I need to finish a paper on Christology to graduate, the only thing my brain wants to do is read scholarly articles on the gender politics of the Assassin's Creed games?
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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
It didn't even take a week for the facade to break.... It's not about protecting Christianity (as if the dominant religion in our country needs it), it is about promoting White Christian Nationalists and those Christians who want to pursue power over following Jesus
April 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It didn't even take a week for the facade to break.... It's not about protecting Christianity (as if the dominant religion in our country needs it), it is about promoting White Christian Nationalists and those Christians who want to pursue power over following Jesus
As if we needed proof that this admin's commitment to fighting "anti-Christian bias" excludes Christianities that fail to align with White Christian Nationalism and/or Christofascism
Can confirm: Just spoke to him, and Barber and two others were, in fact, arrested.
Story coming.
Story coming.
BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
As if we needed proof that this admin's commitment to fighting "anti-Christian bias" excludes Christianities that fail to align with White Christian Nationalism and/or Christofascism
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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
April 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
If only it were just the Heritage Foundation over the past four years, but it’s much bigger and longer - like the whole white Christian homeschool movement over the past 40 years
It’s in P2025
Just realized people might not know that Heritage Foundation has spent the last 4 years recruiting preparing an army of young zealots to repopulate the bureaus and agencies that DOGE is currently decimating
Anyway, they have, and that will be Step 2 in a couple months
Anyway, they have, and that will be Step 2 in a couple months
February 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
If only it were just the Heritage Foundation over the past four years, but it’s much bigger and longer - like the whole white Christian homeschool movement over the past 40 years
This whole 🧵
This is good:
- no true Scotsman is a fallacy when used to distance oneself from someone who is, in fact, a Scotsman.
- but “all true Scotsman” is a fallacious over-correction in which (typically) a non-Scotsman tries to tie Scots to someone who is *not* a Scotsman.
AND (biggest AND I can say)
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- no true Scotsman is a fallacy when used to distance oneself from someone who is, in fact, a Scotsman.
- but “all true Scotsman” is a fallacious over-correction in which (typically) a non-Scotsman tries to tie Scots to someone who is *not* a Scotsman.
AND (biggest AND I can say)
1/x
February 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This whole 🧵
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Pauli Murray is a fascinating figure who helped pioneer that form of protest and a personal hero. She was a lawyer (whose ideas were central to the winning argument in Brown v Board), a poet, civil rights activist, and first Black woman ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. ⚓️
February 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Pauli Murray is a fascinating figure who helped pioneer that form of protest and a personal hero. She was a lawyer (whose ideas were central to the winning argument in Brown v Board), a poet, civil rights activist, and first Black woman ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. ⚓️
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social I read yesterday’s letter that mentioned the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and wondered if you are aware of the sit-in at the Little Palace Cafeteria in DC 20 years prior organized by Pauli Murray and other Howard Uni students.#BlackHistory ⚓️
February 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social I read yesterday’s letter that mentioned the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and wondered if you are aware of the sit-in at the Little Palace Cafeteria in DC 20 years prior organized by Pauli Murray and other Howard Uni students.#BlackHistory ⚓️
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If @earthandaltarmag.com ran a series on understanding and resisting Christian Fascism (CN, reactionary Integralism) what sorts of articles would you want to see? ⚓️
February 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If @earthandaltarmag.com ran a series on understanding and resisting Christian Fascism (CN, reactionary Integralism) what sorts of articles would you want to see? ⚓️
I am incredibly grateful for the witness of Rev. Budde and speaking truth to power is a brave act, BUT
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I am incredibly grateful for the witness of Rev. Budde and speaking truth to power is a brave act, BUT
As much as I am very proud to be an Episcopalian (and today I am especially so!), we are not the only Xtian denom trying to faithfully live as witnesses of Christ. Quakers, UMC, AME, many Baptists (there are others besides SBC and IFB), UCC, basically all associated with the Black Church, & others
Episcopalians are wild because they're a christian denomination that somehow seems to not have total contempt for the teachings of Christ
January 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
As much as I am very proud to be an Episcopalian (and today I am especially so!), we are not the only Xtian denom trying to faithfully live as witnesses of Christ. Quakers, UMC, AME, many Baptists (there are others besides SBC and IFB), UCC, basically all associated with the Black Church, & others
The more I reflect on the photo of the tech bros sitting together in the front row during the inauguration, the more I wonder if we need to start developing a literacy and practice of dark web access and use for communicating across physical distance in our resistance...
I'm thrilled that you're organizing and doing the work. Your plans sound amazing! Law enforcement super duper appreciates you spelling it out in a thread on here
January 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The more I reflect on the photo of the tech bros sitting together in the front row during the inauguration, the more I wonder if we need to start developing a literacy and practice of dark web access and use for communicating across physical distance in our resistance...