The Conscience of the Via Media: Faith, Liberty, and the Common Good By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC I’ve often found myself too conservative for my progressive friends and too liberal for my conservative friends. I understand why. I believe in universal medical care, free education, fair wages, and our duty…
Preaching, Homilies & Sermons
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Love that Fulfills the Law
Love that Fulfills the LawBy +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Proper 18 Year AExodus 12:1-14 Psalm 149 Romans 13:8-14 Matthew 18:15-20 When we hear these readings together, we’re drawn into the very heart of what it means to belong to God and to one another. Exodus takes us back to the…
Reflections, Musings & Meanderings
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The Gospel According to Roddenberry: AI, Star Trek, and the Road Beyond Scarcity
The Gospel According to Roddenberry: AI, Star Trek, and the Road Beyond Scarcity By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC I’ve loved Star Trek since I was a young child. It wasn’t merely entertainment to me. It offered a vision of what humanity might become if we could outgrow some of our…
Reflections, Musings & Meanderings
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A Crown or a Servant’s Mark: Two Ways of Being Church
A Crown or a Servant’s Mark: Two Ways of Being Church By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Church folks have been arguing about haircuts for a mighty long time. That may sound foolish until we remember that human beings have always used outward signs to tell the world who they are,…
Christ Catholic Church
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The Thorns Are Our Refuge
The Thorns Are Our Refuge By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC My personal ecclesial crest is more than a collection of church symbols dressed up in heraldry. It’s something of a spiritual autobiography. It tells the story of where I’ve been, what has shaped me, and the kind of ministry I’ve…
Christ Catholic Church
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The Kindling of Free Catholicism: An Ancient Fire Carried from Hearth to Hearth
By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Before Free Catholicism Had a Name: Celtic Christianity, Saint Willibrord, and Utrecht I offer the following as a historical and theological hypothesis rather than as a claim that can be proven in every detail: the catholic churches of the Celtic lands prior to the Synod…
Reflections, Musings & Meanderings
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Tools of the Devil
Every generation seems convinced it is witnessing the invention that will finally undo civilization. Today, of course, that invention is artificial intelligence. Spend a few minutes on social media and you’ll quickly discover two competing camps. One insists AI will save the world. The other is equally convinced it will…
The Rest We Cannot Earn
Sunday Closest to July 6Proper 9Year ARCL Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67Psalm 45: 11-18Romans 7:15-25aMatthew 11:16-19, 25-30 The Rest We Cannot Earn By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Every single one of us knows what it feels like to be completely exhausted from the inside out. I am not just talking about…
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Christ Catholic Church
The Importance of Christ Catholic Church in this Day and Age: A Pastoral Essay by a Bishop of the See of the Prince of Peace By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC In every age, Christ calls His Church to rise and meet the needs of the world with courage, tenderness, and…
