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Sabbath fire

June 17, 2025 Mark Brians

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The connection with fire is not unimportant, it is not a scribal addition, nor is it a signal that what Moses is recording is a “stream of consciousness” mode of divine speech —like YHWH could have profited from cue cards. No. There is in the mind of YHWH a unique link between household fires being kindled and the sabbath. And though there are several things we could do with this link, there is one that I have become fixated on as of late…

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Tags sabbath, rest, fire, flame, YHWH, Lord's Day, Sunday, Genesis 1:3, Exodus 35, Byung-Chul Han, Gaston Bachelard, James B. Jordan, Death Penalty

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

Repost: Offering our lights to God on Candlemas

January 28, 2025 Mark Brians

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Lights and voices.

That is what we bring to Candlemas: lights and voices. We offer to God the sound of our human voices which is the true and laudable sacrificial act of giving God ourselves in a very real sense —an act to which all of the bloody sacrifices of the Tabernacle pointed. The human body is, as Peter Leithart and Jim Jordan have argued, the original instrument.

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Tags Candlemas, Technology, Luddites, Transhumanism, Sunday, Church, Liturgy, Lights
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