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Bryan Halferty

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Anchor’s first conference In Great Awe. 10/23-10/24. $45. You really won’t want to miss it. taken in Anchor Church by @bryanhalferty

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“[…] so wherever the river flows everything will live.” Ezekiel 47:9 taken in Tacoma, Washington by @bryanhalferty

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14 hours ago

This is MY story.
This is MY song. taken in Anchor Church by @bryanhalferty

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8 days ago

Quick thoughts on why you need poetry in your life. by @bryanhalferty

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11 days ago

Skate & Scrip starts 9/29 8PM. You should come! taken in Tacoma, Washington by @bryanhalferty

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14 days ago

Here’s to eight years of @anchorchurchnw with the fam. 🫶🏻 taken in Tacoma, Washington by @bryanhalferty

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15 days ago

Some prayers I pray. by @bryanhalferty

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16 days ago

Spoke this week at @crowncollege and it was Minnesota very nice.

🫶🏻 taken in Minneapolis, MN by @bryanhalferty

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17 days ago

After I got back from South Africa when I was 22 and had just proposed to my girlfriend Kandice—her saying “no”—I was, as you might imagine, more or less defeated. Everyhing felt both heavy and up in the air.

There was a large stack of mail waiting for me, and in the stack was a letter from the Anglican Theological Review.

I’d sent a poem for publication to the editor, David Middleton, months before. When I wrote the poem, it was in part about a scar Kandice had—and still has—down her leg from surgery to remove and replace a series of cancerous bones when she was a early teen. I called the poem “Salvation’s Scar.” Somewhere in the editing process, though, the poem became more explicitly about Christ’s scars as the paradoxical proof of his victory.

Coming back after the epic failure of a proposal, this letter of acceptance became a double truth. My poem was true generally, but it was also true to me personally in an unexpected and beautiful way.

Salvation is bound to a scar.

This was also the first poem I ever had published. I honestly thought someone had paid Middleton off to get the little poem in print. Surely someone had paid someone off.

And, actually, someone did.

Jesus did. I don’t mean he snuck the poem in for me, though maybe. I mean grace is not grace if you’re able to completely explain it.

Salvation has always been bound to a scar. by @bryanhalferty

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22 days ago

South Adams Street Lawn Competition: Putting the grrrrrrr in grass since 2025. taken in Central Tacoma by @bryanhalferty

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24 days ago

I will never call you “Dearest Annointed Child of the Most High God” and I will never ask you for gift cards. I promise. by @bryanhalferty

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a month ago

Lord God, give me eyes to see how my fragile and imperfect practice of prayer is building a temple for you, my True Refuge, to dwell in. by @bryanhalferty

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a month ago