Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • What A Friend We Have In Facebook | The Buddy of Christ

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    As I’ve recently posted, I’m enjoying using Facebook a lot. (Though for how long, with a big court case looming?) One concern though: the nature of ‘friendship’. I’m not sure what the etiquette is regarding friendship requests, but one thing is certain: you have to decide early on on some sort of policy about who…

  • Mission as Entrepreneurial Activity?

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    Ben has an excellent and honest post here outlining his doubts about the ‘missional entrepreneur’ that is in popular parlance. I’ve posted a comment outlining some thoughts on how the role of the artist might help us imagine this in a new way. Technorati: Ben Edson | Mission | Entrepreneur

  • Religion: Ignore God, It’s About The Sacred

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    This month’s Prospect carries an excellent short essay outlining some arguments against Hitchens, Dawkins et al: ‘the evangelical atheists, shouting from their pulpits’. The author, Roger Scruton, is surprised by ‘the extent to which religion is caricatured by its current opponents, who see it as nothing more than a system of unfounded beliefs about the…

  • Scot McKnight Discusses Signs…

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    Over at JesusCreed.Org Some good debate going on about leadership, what it means to be ’emergent’, and whether the book is ‘concrete’ enough. Thanks Scot. Technorati: JesusCreed | Scot McKnight

  • Why I’m Loving Facebook | Dirty Networks

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    Having seen Ben and some others resign themselves to Facebook, I asked them why I should bother… do I really want another digital dimension to have to check/keep up? And with being a teacher, all social networking sites are slightly fraught with potential pitfalls. (Unlike an ex colleague, who I think is very unwise, I…

  • Stones

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    If we could all just stop throwing stones, and stoop, knees bent and write in the dust, we’d see that the dust was once stone – grand, and hard, and proud, and tough – now ground and dissolved in grace and tears. So… how much better to be a grain of dirt on that kind…