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Resurrection in us

May 27, 2025 Mark Brians

When we say the Creed we are giving eye-witness testimony: I believe in the Resurrection of Jesus from the Dead because I see that same Life at work in me, and in us…

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Tags Creed, Resurrection, Anglican Compass

Rainbow, ephod, coat of many colors, calendar

May 19, 2025 Mark Brians

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The rainbow is a creature of light, established by God in the heavens as a sign of his mercy and his promise never again to flood the entire earth (Gen 9:13-17). The colors, the range of brightness and hue, the blurring and fading, and twinkling of the rainbow is a part of the glory of God. A rainbow radiates from the sacred fane of the One seated on the Throne of Heaven (Ezek. 1:27; Rev. 4:3). There is a rainbow of mercy and loving kindness which diadems the Living Lord. It is both mercy and beauty that draw us to Him. The very act of hanging-up his bow of war emboldens us to draw near with faith (Heb. 4:16).

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Tags Color, Light, Rainbow, Mercy, Stones, Gemstones, Ephod, Liturgical Year, Liturgical calendar

Leo XIV

May 10, 2025 Mark Brians

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…Having witnessed the papal election, news media and pundits have begun taking the project farther still: they intend to predict action and the course of the Roman Catholic Church. So high is their estimation of their own powers of probabilistic ramification that the pitch has already reached a kind of drunkenness. Far behind us is the terminus of sanity, long have we been riding in the realm of derangement…

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Tags Pope, Roman Catholic, Holy See, Prayer, Control, News, Journalism, Pentheus, Madness, Media

Glorious scars, happy sabbaths

April 28, 2025 Mark Brians

Jesus rises from the dead, trampling down death by death, and yet, in all that trampling, he still bears the marks of his own being trampled-down. The risen Christ is a wounded Christ. If Christ is the Image of the Invisible God, and if seeing Jesus means seeing the Father (Jn. 14:9), we must bear it being asked, “what does it mean that the hands of the Hand of God have holes in them?” We hail Christ as the “Wounded Healer” mustn’t we pause to wonder more simply “what is a wound?” …

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Tags Stigmata, Wound, Trauma, Pain, Scar, Cicatrix, Doubting Thomas, Resurrection, Sunday, Sermon Notes

"Nika!" a brief little Bright Week reflection

April 22, 2025 Mark Brians

On the bread we use for Holy Communion we stamp the ancient Christian motto: IC XC NI KA at the four corners of the Cross.

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Tags Victory, Nike, NIKA, IC XC NIKA, Communion, Easter, Meal, Feast, Wake, Bright Week

A unified witness of salvation

April 14, 2025 Mark Brians

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In the beginning humans are created in a state on deep and utter union: Adam and Eve share communion with God, communion with one another, a kind of communion with the rest of the created world, and —often forgotten in theological accounts of prelapsarian life— unified within themselves. This is, in God’s words, “very good” (Gen 1:31). It is a blessed state (Gen 1:28). Union is, also, not just how we are made, it is what we are made for.

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Tags Heavenly City, Church, Salvation, Atonement, Social, de Lubac, Cranmer, Jesus, Holy Week, Gospel

Jesus among the lampstands: a Palm Sunday pre-game

April 8, 2025 Mark Brians

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We should recall from Exodus (25:31–39; and 37:17–24) that the lampstand in the Tabernacle, which was a picture, a microcosm, of the heavenly throne-room, was made in the likeness of a tree. Each of its arms were branches that bloomed into almond blossoms on which were set the seven lamps. It was a tree whose fruit was light. It was another burning bush, but a burning bush that had grown into full maturity.

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Tags Palm Sunday, Tree, Almond, Blossom, Burning Bush, Revelation, Jesus, Branches, Glory, Lampstand

Dividing to multiply: preemptive wedding thoughts

March 31, 2025 Mark Brians

Over at Logos I wrote a piece last year about the theme of Division-Multiplication in Scripture. You can read it here, if you’d like. As we approach an All Saints wedding this weekend my thoughts are drawn to the creation of Eve and to the way that marriage is itself a picture of this pattern of Division-Multiplication.

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Tags marriage, matrimony, one flesh, genesis 1, genesis 2, wedding, All Saints, Adam, Eve, Dividing, Multiplying, Bread, Rib

Annunciation

March 24, 2025 Mark Brians

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This Tuesday is the Feast of the Annunciation —the annual celebration of the day, nine months prior to Christmas, that the angel Gabriel came to Mary to announce the conception of the infant Christ in her womb. We confess in the Creeds and in the words of the eucharistic liturgy that Christ became incarnate by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the virgin Mary and yet we often fail to marvel at the wonder of this. For it is not as if Christ was merely born Christ was conceived —The second Person of the Godhead not only underwent mammalian birth but also mammalian gestation. Oh the long-suffering patience and obedience of the Son to submit to fulfilling the whole span of human experience!

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Tags Mary, Annunciation, Word of God, Jesus, Blue, BBQ, Romans 8

The foxes

March 17, 2025 Mark Brians

Those in power here, both the pharisees and Herod, are afraid of the power of Jesus. And the best policy for those who rule in fear is to exercise dominion and control over others by spreading fear. Spread the worry and bring the upstarts to heel in being anxious about tomorrow’s troubles.

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Tags fox, luke 13, gopsel, lent, Liturgical calendar, lectionary, Jesus
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