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Will Brown

Fr. Will Brown serves as rector of All Saints’, Thomasville. He is a priest of the Society of the Holy Cross, and a disciple of René Girard. He enjoys spending time with his wife and son, and is an avid hunter and fisherman.

Don’t Follow the Science

Reflecting on the surreal experience of the pandemic from the vantage of a little temporal distance, as one does, what sticks in my craw...

Sermon for A New Life

A sermon preached at the wedding of Christopher and Laura Wells on December 28, 2022.  By Will Brown What a joy it is to be here...

Life and Death on the Last Frontier

By Will Brown "Mend it,” said Little Rock as we watched my fly line drifting downstream. My guide’s name wasn’t Little Rock, but that’s where he...

Firearm Spirituality

Lessons from a 30-06 For MW By Will Brown  I am a hunter. I have written a fair amount about hunting from a theological point of view. Among...

The Sacrifice of the Mass on Sundays During Coronatide

By Will Brown The inability of Christians to gather for corporate worship, and the restrictions under which corporate worship must take place where it is...

On Politics and Nature: The Birds of the Air Will Tell You

It is a source of comfort — or it should be! — to the Christian, that he with whom we have to do sits on his throne with sovereign attention, and that the whole cosmic drama is resolving itself toward a grand reconciliation with its creator through the cross of Jesus (cf. Colossians 1:19-20). And through it all our task remains the same: fidelity.

In the Beginning: A Theological Foundation for Environmental Ethics

Why did God create the heavens and the earth, human beings, and all the rest?

A catechism of Nature (7): Grass

Are we wearing out the earth’s ability to sustain us, tilling the ground into oblivion, coming to the end of some invisible tether?

Edward Abbey, righteous Gentile (A short appreciation)

Edward Abbey’s was a great soul. The best reason to read Abbey, says Wendell Berry, is “for the consolation, for the comfort of being told the truth.”

On the precipice of Holy Week

Palm Sunday is to me the most disorienting liturgy of the year.