Brian Ernest Brown

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About me

Gender Male
Location Ozark Mountains, United States
Introduction I’m an artist, activist, writer, poet, and reluctant priest, but perhaps most of all, a wanderer at heart. My priesthood finds its expression as an "episcopus vagans" or "wandering bishop" and "in peregrinatio pro Christo" or "in exile for Christ". My ordination and consecration was within the Independent Sacramental Movement. I celebrate inclusivity, compassion, grace, diversity, justice, peace, and love. I have always felt a calling toward caring for the marginalized, hurting, and lost, religious freedom, social justice, diversity, animal rights, compassion, peace, poetry, literature, music, and art. I'm an avid and vociferous supporter of human rights, rights for every one of us to be who God created us to be and love whom we choose, how we choose. I have a deep love of art of all kinds but primarily I write, paint, and work with glass. I am from the gentle rolling hills of the Ozark Mountains and have lived there, on and off, most of my life. While I may wander from time to time, the Ozarks always call me back home. In short, I'm simply a misfit mystic with an open heart and a free spirit celebrating life and love!
Interests Art, Glassblowing, Lampwork, Writing, Poetry, Literature, Music, Architecture, Humanities, Religious Freedom, Mysticism, Social Justice, Diversity, Animal Rights, Peace, Hospice, LGBT, VanLife, Nomads, Boondocking
Favorite Music Simon and Garfunkle, Paul Simon, Peter Paul and Mary, Loreena McKennitt, Dead Can Dance, Enigma, Indigo Girls, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Grateful Dead, Bette Midler, Cher, Madonna, Prince, REM, The Doors, Enya, Guns and Roses, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Edie Brickell, Suzanne Vega, Michael Feinstein, Mandy Patinkin, Jewel, Pink, Lady Gaga, Neil Diamond, John Denver, Glee, Cat Stevens, Nena, Holly Near, Showtunes, Bonnie Devlin, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Edith Piaf, Maria Callas, Stephen Sondheim
Favorite Books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, A Confederacy of Dunces, Jitterbug Perfume, Watership Down, The Catcher in the Rye, The Hobbit, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Mists of Avalon, Stranger in a Strange Land, On the Road, Travels With Charlie, The Log From the Sea of Cortez, The Way of the Shaman, Drawing Down the Moon, A Heretic's Heart, Original Blessing, A Generous Orthodoxy, Love is an Orientation, If Grace is True, Listening for the Heartbeat of God, Turing's Cathedral, Hymn of the Universe, Practical Mysticism, Walden, The Ethical Slut, Song of the Loon