About Abi…

(Adapted from my Bio in Voices of the Virtual World)

M. A. Brown, who lives in Vancouver (not B.C.), Washington (not D.C.), is a woman of many names, faces, voices, hats and pies (as in “she has her fingers in lots of pies”).

At The Abbey she is the triadial Abbess known as AbiSomeone. Among those who read her writings she is known as “Ma” Brown. At her CLB she is known as Sister Brown or Pastor Peggy or just plain Peggy. To her three sons and accident-prone friends, she is known as Dr. Mom. To her precious husband, Robert, she is…well… To her father, she is Margaret Ann–although she is never “in trouble” any more. To her siblings she is Peggy, Margo, Gretta, Rita and all other derivatives of the name Margaret. To those she has worked with in various offices, she is known as Office MacGyver–and has recently begun answering to MacGyver Mom. At her oldest son’s middle school PTSA, she is known as the President. She is content to know that she is a sister in Christ and beloved daughter to our Father and willing to do anything the Holy Spirit asks…although she has been learning to say “no” to others….

At CovenantClusters, her in-process vision for an incarnational-missional, neo-monastic, counter-cultural, disciple-making, meta-church cluster planting movement, she hopes to make Jesus real to her neighbors and doesn’t care what they call her-as long as they call her in time to eat and sing and pray and learn and play and laugh…you get the idea.