From Mother Cait Finnegan-Grenier: It is with profound sorrow and faith in our God Who is Love that I share with you, members and friends of The Celtic Christian Church, that our founding bishop and my beloved husband passed through…
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Obama vowed to do something about gun violence speaking today in Washington https://t.co/g8njZj22hS #StopGunViolence pic.twitter.com/HzOPhMY6Lu — MSNBC Photography (@MSNBCPhoto) January 5, 2016 I have seen over the course of the last couple of days various reactions from folks on social…
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This will be my last blog post for 2015. I had the best of intentions this year to do more with my blogging and writing but it would seem that life had other plans. Perhaps that’s the truth and perhaps…
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“We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised. Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and…
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Again I find myself coming back to the theme of returning home and whether returning to a place is actually going backwards or rather a forward movement from another direction. Eureka Springs was not my childhood hometown, that was Springfield…
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This morning everything was so clear in my mind. There was a gentle cooling breeze and the day was fresh and so was I. Not long after that, the heat hit and it’s been all downhill since. It’s amazing how…
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Can you ever go home? Conventional wisdom seems to say no, you can never go home. Such wisdom would suggest that once you leave, things change and try as you might it’s awful hard to find your way back to…
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The other night at a party I was throwing I struck up a conversation with a neighbor friend who had just graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of Arkansas. After the compulsory congratulations and “thata-boy’s”…
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Introduction Given at the Transgender Day of Remembrance 2014 St. Martin’s Episcopal Church Fayetteville Arkansas By Bishop Brian Ernest Brown, OSH I Wonder Did You Know You Were Making History By Stephanie Mott In honor of those who have walked…
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This is a litany I composed for the opening prayer at a workshop on Gender Identities and Our Faith Communities sponsored by PFLAG and held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, AR November 8, 2016. What a dynamic, courageous,…
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“Coming Out” is such a loaded title. It’s full of innuendo and salacious promise but now that I have your attention… In some ways this has been a long time in coming, in other ways, it’s quite anti-climactic. All of…
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I should have done this years ago! Having Ex Cathedra Studio is pure bliss! The last studio gallery I had in Branson was like a little prison. You had to check in, sign in, and perform like an organ-grinder’s circus…
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On this Feast of the Ascension, I would like to announce the opening of Ex Cathedra Studio in downtown Fayetteville Arkansas. Upon moving to Fayetteville this last summer, I began looking for a space in which to be and to…
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In celebration of the Feast of the Ascension… Ascension “With speech, the human brain cannot aurally perceive two pieces of information at the same time. Having a person talking about corruption in politics, while another is talking about eternal love…
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In my observance of Memorial Day I can only, in good conscience, offer prayers for peace and the end of war. In my humble opinion, glorifying war and or military service is antithetical to the cause of peace and symptomatic…
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I think I’ve hit a spiritual brick wall. I mean I think I’ve smacked into it hard. I’ve wandered and wandered around this Christian Church for some time and I have to say, I still feel and indeed have always…
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