Mark Brians

Mark Brians

Writer

The Rev. Mark Brians is the rector at All Saints, an Anglican church in downtown Honolulu. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Hawaii Pacific University. Fr. Mark is married to Rachel, and they live with their five children in Liliha, just up the street from Youngโ€™s Noodle Factory, which they frequent weekly.
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Holy Sovereigns Day: The Feast of the Church in Hawaii

Posted on November 22, 2024
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At the end of November, we will make a big-to-do at All Saints Honolulu. A large, light-strung canopy will be set up in my front yard. Chairs, benches, and carpets from the sanctuary will be arranged, with an altar and lectern on the grass, dressed for Holy Communion. A reredos and boughs of leaves will…

Sunset in Maui, Hawaii.

We Come Not Unasked: The Hawaii Anglican Network

Posted on October 3, 2024
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Theย Hawaii Anglican Networkย is a ministry effort to serve and reach all of Hawaiโ€˜i.ย สปOhanaย is a term that we use to describe the Hawaii Anglican Network. It means family, and its root is the word for nest. We reside together under the shelter of Godโ€™s wing, and we feed together on Christ.

Reformation Anglican Worship by Jensen (Review)

Posted on August 25, 2021
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Prefatory note: This is an updated version of my earlier review of Reformation Anglican Worship. The original post engendered a fruitful and clarifying conversation between the Rev. Dr. Jensen and myself, in which I profited much. In particular, he highlighted a couple of areas in that first version where he felt my reading was not…

The Heritage of Anglican Theology by J.I. Packer (Review)

Posted on March 23, 2021
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J. I. Packer. The Heritage of Anglican Theology. (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2021, 384 pages, $39.99) Remembering Packer About a decade ago, I came across a copy of J.I. Packerโ€™s Knowing God in Kathmandu (long story). I remember little from my reading that night save for Packer’s obvious, humble confidence in the love of the God…

Reformation Anglicanism, Volume 1 (A Review)

Posted on December 15, 2020
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Book Information: Reformation Anglicanism: A Vision for Todayโ€™s Global Communion, vol. I in The Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library, eds. Ashley Null and John Yates III (Crossway, 2017, 224 pages, $35.00). Introduction Reformation Anglicanism is the first volume of The Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library, a series that seeks to cast a renewed vision for Anglicanism, one…

Reading the Bible with the Caroline Divines: 4 Homiletical Takeaways

Posted on June 29, 2020
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In the shadows cast by the early English reformers (such as Cramner and Hooker) on the one side, and the giants of Anglican theology since the 18th century on the other, sits the rich trove of Anglican theologians and devotional writers known collectively as the Caroline Divines. โ€œCarolineโ€ (derived from the Latin version of the…

3 Ways Pastors Can Provide Theological Leadership During COVID-19

Posted on May 4, 2020
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It is now Eastertide and the quarantine orders have not been lifted nor has the spread and toll of COVID-19 been fully exacted: we are still living in the time of the virus. Some among us may have hoped that, by Doubting Thomas Sunday at least, we might have some clearer picture of โ€œwhen we…