A Guy Named Brian (he/him)
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Introverted environmental planner in the Mile-High City | Lay Anglican of the TEC variety | Cathedral verger, one mile up | Mainly just trying to be a decent husband & father | All views are mine! Mine I say! 😀
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🕯️ Confirm our minds, O Lord, in the mysteries of the true faith, set forth with power by your servant John of Damscus; that we, with him, confessing Jesus to be true God and true Man, …
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John of Damascus
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December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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🚨 Production dates! We have production dates! 🚨
“Severance season 3 will film from April 2026 through December 2026.” 👍
#Severance #AppleTV #Thriller #ProductionUpdate
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“Severance season 3 will film from April 2026 through December 2026.” 👍
#Severance #AppleTV #Thriller #ProductionUpdate
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Severance season 3 just got a big release timing update - 9to5Mac
Severance has been landing on lots of ‘Best TV of 2025’ lists, and today a big update arrived for release timing of Apple’s upcoming season 3.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🚨 Production dates! We have production dates! 🚨
“Severance season 3 will film from April 2026 through December 2026.” 👍
#Severance #AppleTV #Thriller #ProductionUpdate
9to5mac.com/2025/12/04/s...
“Severance season 3 will film from April 2026 through December 2026.” 👍
#Severance #AppleTV #Thriller #ProductionUpdate
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A fascinating conversation between Professor Heather Cox Richardson and NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
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American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A fascinating conversation between Professor Heather Cox Richardson and NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
youtube.com/live/N15L4Po...
youtube.com/live/N15L4Po...
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Quietness
I sometimes wonder how it would feel to sit inside a flower. How quiet to have so many lush layers cocooned around you, suspended in softness. Untouchable. How would I take that stillness, that gentle peace, onward when the petals drop?
#adventword2025 ⚓️
I sometimes wonder how it would feel to sit inside a flower. How quiet to have so many lush layers cocooned around you, suspended in softness. Untouchable. How would I take that stillness, that gentle peace, onward when the petals drop?
#adventword2025 ⚓️
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Quietness
I sometimes wonder how it would feel to sit inside a flower. How quiet to have so many lush layers cocooned around you, suspended in softness. Untouchable. How would I take that stillness, that gentle peace, onward when the petals drop?
#adventword2025 ⚓️
I sometimes wonder how it would feel to sit inside a flower. How quiet to have so many lush layers cocooned around you, suspended in softness. Untouchable. How would I take that stillness, that gentle peace, onward when the petals drop?
#adventword2025 ⚓️
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This is why labor laws are so important — and exactly why big corporations spend so much money lobbying against them.
It's also why unions are vital — and why we need to support @sbworkersunited.org's fight against corporate greed.
Solidarity.
It's also why unions are vital — and why we need to support @sbworkersunited.org's fight against corporate greed.
Solidarity.
NEW: For years, NYC Starbucks workers have claimed that the company has arbitrarily cut their hours, denying them stable schedules. In a historic settlement announced today, Starbucks has to pay out $35 million to 15,000 workers.
This is the power of labor laws.
This is the power of labor laws.
Starbucks to pay about $35M to NYC workers to settle claims it violated labor law
New York City officials say Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours.
apnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is why labor laws are so important — and exactly why big corporations spend so much money lobbying against them.
It's also why unions are vital — and why we need to support @sbworkersunited.org's fight against corporate greed.
Solidarity.
It's also why unions are vital — and why we need to support @sbworkersunited.org's fight against corporate greed.
Solidarity.
🕯️ “Mary, as Taylor oft confessed, is the God-bearer. But she is the God-bearer precisely because Israel's hopes are fulfilled, because the longings of prophets, priests, and kings over centuries have to come to pass in the Child she carries, because she is ‘the mother of the Messias.’”
'A full measure of honour': Jeremy Taylor and the Mother of the Messiah
Throughout Advent, I will be posting some Marian extracts from Jeremy Taylor's Great Exemplar , demonstrating how in Taylor we see that a th...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🕯️ “Mary, as Taylor oft confessed, is the God-bearer. But she is the God-bearer precisely because Israel's hopes are fulfilled, because the longings of prophets, priests, and kings over centuries have to come to pass in the Child she carries, because she is ‘the mother of the Messias.’”
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BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
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Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
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The liturgical calendar is a spiritual technology.
When we overlay our lives onto it, year after year, the patterns become increasingly apparent. Like rubbing over an embossed template. ⚓
When we overlay our lives onto it, year after year, the patterns become increasingly apparent. Like rubbing over an embossed template. ⚓
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The liturgical calendar is a spiritual technology.
When we overlay our lives onto it, year after year, the patterns become increasingly apparent. Like rubbing over an embossed template. ⚓
When we overlay our lives onto it, year after year, the patterns become increasingly apparent. Like rubbing over an embossed template. ⚓
🕯️ “The fact that marriage and domestic responsibilities embedded clergy in the affairs of the community was, for Atterbury, also a blessing. Knowing ‘the common affairs of life’, this shaped not only the preaching of the clergy, but also aided the flourishing of ‘our practical divinity.’”
'Whose Advent we now celebrate': Francis Atterbury's December 1709 sermon to the Sons of the Clergy
Francis Atterbury's ' A Sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy ' was delivered on 6th December 1709, in the Cathedral Church of Saint...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🕯️ “The fact that marriage and domestic responsibilities embedded clergy in the affairs of the community was, for Atterbury, also a blessing. Knowing ‘the common affairs of life’, this shaped not only the preaching of the clergy, but also aided the flourishing of ‘our practical divinity.’”
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Said
The words we say and write and leave behind have the capacity to spread and bring joy and destruction in equal amounts.
#adventword2025 #episcopal ⚓️
The words we say and write and leave behind have the capacity to spread and bring joy and destruction in equal amounts.
#adventword2025 #episcopal ⚓️
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Said
The words we say and write and leave behind have the capacity to spread and bring joy and destruction in equal amounts.
#adventword2025 #episcopal ⚓️
The words we say and write and leave behind have the capacity to spread and bring joy and destruction in equal amounts.
#adventword2025 #episcopal ⚓️
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Roads are slick in the Ft. Collins/Greeley area, and certainly from Castle Pines on south.
Please be careful on the roads tonight, despite generally light totals!
#COwx
Please be careful on the roads tonight, despite generally light totals!
#COwx
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Roads are slick in the Ft. Collins/Greeley area, and certainly from Castle Pines on south.
Please be careful on the roads tonight, despite generally light totals!
#COwx
Please be careful on the roads tonight, despite generally light totals!
#COwx
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Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.
🕯️ The (now former) Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, reflects on the season of Advent.
youtube.com/watch?v=PzTY...
youtube.com/watch?v=PzTY...
Archbishop on Advent
YouTube video by The Archbishop of Canterbury
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December 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
🕯️ The (now former) Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, reflects on the season of Advent.
youtube.com/watch?v=PzTY...
youtube.com/watch?v=PzTY...
🕯️ The First Sunday of Advent at Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver, Colorado involved the Matin Responsory, a unique setting of the Veni Emmanuel (from a former choir director), and a wonderful sermon by our guest preacher, the X Bishop of Colorado (now retired).
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The First Sunday of Advent | Choral Eucharist, Rite II - November 30, 2025
Welcome to Saint John's Cathedral! We are so glad you are here. We pray that you encounter God as you participate in today's service. Our presider this…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🕯️ The First Sunday of Advent at Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver, Colorado involved the Matin Responsory, a unique setting of the Veni Emmanuel (from a former choir director), and a wonderful sermon by our guest preacher, the X Bishop of Colorado (now retired).
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Advent is a strangely thrilling season. As nature prepares herself for the long and frozen sleep of winter, the Church calls the spirit to awake. As the days grow darker, and light fails, the Church calls us to open our eyes to the rising of a new, glorious sun ⚓
--Robert Crouse
--Robert Crouse
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Advent is a strangely thrilling season. As nature prepares herself for the long and frozen sleep of winter, the Church calls the spirit to awake. As the days grow darker, and light fails, the Church calls us to open our eyes to the rising of a new, glorious sun ⚓
--Robert Crouse
--Robert Crouse
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A message for the First Sunday of Advent from your pals at Target 🕯️
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A message for the First Sunday of Advent from your pals at Target 🕯️
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“So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.”
Some say it’s bad to be “woke”. But the Bible tells us to keep awake. I listen to love over tyrants, every time. ⚓️
Some say it’s bad to be “woke”. But the Bible tells us to keep awake. I listen to love over tyrants, every time. ⚓️
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.”
Some say it’s bad to be “woke”. But the Bible tells us to keep awake. I listen to love over tyrants, every time. ⚓️
Some say it’s bad to be “woke”. But the Bible tells us to keep awake. I listen to love over tyrants, every time. ⚓️
“Reality is finally starting to catch up with Trump. … He only looks smart because his lies have overwhelmed a political culture that didn’t know how to respond to them. If I were a Trump fan, I’d start worrying about what happens when that stops.”
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
America Is Finally Starting to
See Trump for the Bullsh*t Artist He Is
He came to power through a relentless assault of lies. But the debt owed to the truth is coming due.
newrepublic.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Reality is finally starting to catch up with Trump. … He only looks smart because his lies have overwhelmed a political culture that didn’t know how to respond to them. If I were a Trump fan, I’d start worrying about what happens when that stops.”
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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Hey, it’s almost the New (Liturgical) Year! As we are about to spend lots of time with Matthew’s Gospel this year, here’s a companion for the journey—and an invitation to read the whole gospel in 50 days if you want. ⚓️
shop.forwardmovement.org/product/2289
shop.forwardmovement.org/product/2289
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Hey, it’s almost the New (Liturgical) Year! As we are about to spend lots of time with Matthew’s Gospel this year, here’s a companion for the journey—and an invitation to read the whole gospel in 50 days if you want. ⚓️
shop.forwardmovement.org/product/2289
shop.forwardmovement.org/product/2289
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++Rowan Williams: KB assumes "poverty is a lifestyle choice. Half an hour spent listening to the clients at any local food bank might persuade her otherwise. [How] could children or disabled people living in need be said to have failed in their responsibility? [This idea] is eccentric beyond belief"
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
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November 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
++Rowan Williams: KB assumes "poverty is a lifestyle choice. Half an hour spent listening to the clients at any local food bank might persuade her otherwise. [How] could children or disabled people living in need be said to have failed in their responsibility? [This idea] is eccentric beyond belief"
🕯️ O God, who called your servants Kamehameha and Emma to an earthly throne that they might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave them zeal for your church and love for your people: …
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November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🕯️ O God, who called your servants Kamehameha and Emma to an earthly throne that they might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave them zeal for your church and love for your people: …
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I had no idea that Washington Irving, the author of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and other tales, was an Episcopalian. 📕
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Thanksgiving ... for Washington Irving, Episcopalian
In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated b...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I had no idea that Washington Irving, the author of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and other tales, was an Episcopalian. 📕
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🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! A warm Thanksgiving with highs in the low-to-mid 50s in Denver, a few degrees above the average high of 48°. Otherwise, it’s a mostly sunny day with lighter winds.
🎢 Warmer tomorrow with highs in the 60s ahead of our first snow on Saturday morning.
#COwx
🎢 Warmer tomorrow with highs in the 60s ahead of our first snow on Saturday morning.
#COwx
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! A warm Thanksgiving with highs in the low-to-mid 50s in Denver, a few degrees above the average high of 48°. Otherwise, it’s a mostly sunny day with lighter winds.
🎢 Warmer tomorrow with highs in the 60s ahead of our first snow on Saturday morning.
#COwx
🎢 Warmer tomorrow with highs in the 60s ahead of our first snow on Saturday morning.
#COwx
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Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy, *
for we have had more than enough of contempt,
Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, *
and of the derision of the proud. #MorningPrayer 📕
for we have had more than enough of contempt,
Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, *
and of the derision of the proud. #MorningPrayer 📕
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy, *
for we have had more than enough of contempt,
Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, *
and of the derision of the proud. #MorningPrayer 📕
for we have had more than enough of contempt,
Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, *
and of the derision of the proud. #MorningPrayer 📕
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Today’s collect, if TEC still used the 1928 prayerbook ⚓️
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today’s collect, if TEC still used the 1928 prayerbook ⚓️