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”

Five clergy from L-R: Fr. Dave Ketter (in black cassock), Fr. Josh Cole (in black cassock and red fascia with pectoral cross), Mtr. Gaye Coston in civic clerical attire and pectoral cross, Fr. W. Nigel Meeks (in civic clerical attire), and Fr. Joseph Jones (in civic clerical attire). They are standing on a patio deck at the St. Gregory Palamas Centre in Thessaloniki.
Banner advertisement along a deli cheese row in a grocery store featuring a smiling white woman with blonde hair holding a cracker up to her mouth. The festive sign text above the image says “CRACKERS LOVE CHEESE!”
“The Christian joy, the Gloria, is of the same kind; but it is preeminently (infinitely, if our capacity were not finite) high and joyous. But this story is supreme; and it is true. Art has been verified. God is the Lord, of angels, and of men—and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused. But in God's kingdom the presence of the greatest does not depress the small. Redeemed Man is still man. Story, fantasy, still go on, and should go on. The Evangelium has not abrogated legends; it has hallowed them, especially the “happy ending.” The Christian has still to work, with mind as well as body, to suffer, hope, and die; but he may now perceive that all his bents and faculties have a purpose, which can be redeemed. So great is the bounty with which he has been treated that he may now, perhaps, fairly dare to guess that in Fantasy he may actually assist in the effoliation and multiple enrichment of creation. All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and as unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know." -J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories.
A male priest in black clerical shirt and white collar is vested in a bright green stole. He stands in the orans position at a table surrounded by a multi-generational, multi-racial small group of communicants at a celebration of Communion. A bulletin board with construction paper clouds and a rainbow is behind him, hanging on a glossy tan-tile wall. Adult communicants are holding bulletins.
"One of the greatest crimes of the late war [WWI] was that of robbing the church of her sacred calling and “pilgrim” role, turning her aside from the saving souls, to plunge her into the vortex of world politics and patriotism, with all its fallen prejudices preferences, avarices, cruelties, hates and murder. "The Church has no place to flaunt flags of national preference. God’s grace and gospel are international. Christ died for all men. Antichrist means to run the church by government edict. Then we will have state and Church. The State will dictate to the Church. The flags represent fallen nations, with fallen nationalistic, sectional prides, ambitions, etc., that breed strife, enmity, jealousy, and war, for they are without Christ. We do not belong to them. "Government is squarely up against God in its demands on Christians during war time. And Christians are squarely up against the question whether they shall obey God or man. Should those in authority forbid the preaching of practicing of the Gospel, which Gospel forbids to the Christian the exercise of war, there is but one thing for him to do. He must obey God." -Frank Bartleman, Christian Citizenship, (Los Angeles: n.d.)
Joshua and the Shepherd by Joseph F. Girzone White background cover with a painted picture of a field of green grass with a dirt path 4 way intersection.
Three young men—Brett Harris, Dave Ketter, and Alex Harris— are posing for a photo in a hallway. The man on the left has dark hair and is wearing a gray button-up shirt. The middle man has short brown hair and a red "GENEVA COLLEGE" t-shirt with a name tag. The man on the right has dark hair and a white and blue striped button-up shirt. They are standing in a hallway with wood paneling and blue walls.
A screenshot of a word document with the rubrics from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. The rubrics show the priest concluding the collects and proceeding to reading the Epistle and Gospel and promoting the Creed in quick succession.
A simple black on white drawing in late medieval style of man with a cowl filling a pitcher from a barrel. Above it says “9 September” and is captioned “Buy Your Priest a Beer Day”.
A two panel meme with upset woman on the left pointing in the direction of the offending party. The text says “I’m a bishop!” On the right panel is a white cat sitting at the head of the table l. The text says “of 8 people.”
“To be sure, Pentecostalism has priestly leaders. One thinks of Jack Hayford, for example. Anglicanism probably has prophets as well -- I just don't know what it would do with them, especially if the prophets had not gone to the right schools.”
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” (Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Blurred image with a pink flower on the right. On the left, the text of Isaiah 55:10-11, NIV.
Three mice look attentively at a mouse standing on its hind legs, with two upraised legs that looks like it is making a speech. Text: “Me and my three followers who always like my posts.”
Sandra Newman (Twitter) I scream you scream we all scream this is our life now
Holding a copy of The Kingdom of Children: a Liberation Theology by R. L. Stollar, Foreword by Cindy Wang Brandt
Red marble cover with creamy white text Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home Derrick Bell, Author of And We Are Not Saved and Faces at the Bottom of the Well.