Dancingbird Gallery in 2025: An Adventure in Art and Agitation Owning a glassblowing gallery in a mall right now feels a little like trying to do performance art on a sinking ship, while someone is rearranging the furniture and charging you extra for the privilege.Between rising tariffs on raw materials,…
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Faith, Conscience & Common Good
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The No Kings Protest: A Christian Perspective
The No Kings Protest: A Christian Perspective On June 14, 2025, millions of Americans took to the streets in what has become known as the No Kings Protest, a nationwide demonstration against authoritarianism and political corruption. Among those standing in solidarity were Christians, committed to justice, peace, and the teachings…
Coworkers of Christ
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A Consecration I Didn’t Seek, and the Grace I Found
On the Feast of St. Kevin of Glendalough, nineteen years ago today, June 3, 2006, I was consecrated to the episcopacy and made a bishop within the Free Catholic tradition. It was a day marked by equal measures of challenge and grace, shadow and blessing. The truth is, the day…
Highways, Byways & Hedges
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Meet Peregrine: Notes from the Trail
Meet Peregrine: Notes from the Trail By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Meet Peregrine a 2017 Giant Escape City, my new bike. Named after St. Peregrine the Martyr who refused to worship the emperor. (Today’s Trump) Named after St. Peregrine of Auxerre due to his Champagne color. Named after the Peregrine Falcon…
Reflections, Musings & Meanderings
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The Garden Before Grace
The Garden Before Grace By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Twenty-seven years ago, on a Summer Solstice long ago, I completed my third-degree initiation within the Wiccan tradition and took vows that felt, at the time, both solemn and eternal. It was a night of deep symbolism and sacred friendship, celebrated…
Poetry, Prose & Prayer
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Broken Yet Beating
Broken Yet BeatingBy Brian Ernest Brown I’ve always knownI’ll die of a broken heart Shattered like glassIt was preventable and yet inevitable Only thing worseThan a fate such as this Is most assuredlyLiving with a beating broken heart
Poetry, Prose & Prayer
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So Many, Too Many
So Many, Too ManyBy Brian Ernest Brown So many wounded people.So many ill people.So many frightened people.So many sad people.So many frustrated people.So many angry people.So many lost people.So many hiding people. Many. So many. Too many.Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. My petals have drooped a little todayEven…
Poetry, Prose & Prayer
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If I Ever Said I Love You
If I Ever Said I Love YouBy +Brian Ernest Brown If I ever said I love youI mean it even now If I ever held you in my heartI hold you even now Love never gives up
Dancingbird Gallery & Studio
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Holy Springs, Open Doors, and Coming Home from Another Direction
Again I find myself returning to the theme of home, how a place can call you back long after you’ve left it, and how returning isn’t always going backward. Sometimes it’s a forward movement from another direction, a circling flight that finally brings you to where you were always meant…