Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • Loving Thy Neighbour: Out of Great Silence?

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    I’ve just returned from seeing Into Great Silence – a documentary by Philip Gröning about the Grande Chartreuse monastery, one of the most aescetic in the world. I am a huge documentary fan, and this is a truly wonderful film. The mix of HD digital and Super 8 footage, the all-natural light, with no crew…

  • In Conclusion: Love thy Neighbour

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    So here’s the first proper post of the Signs blog. The book itself comes out in July, but why wait that long – I’m hoping we’ll be able to engage in some discussion way before then. (If you really can’t, you can order a copy of the UK version or download a sample chapter 😉…

  • Launch//Welcome//Notes of Guidance

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    We have official lift-off. Thanks for landing at the Signs of Emergence blog, and Happy New Year. If you’ve arrived from my previous blog over at The Complex Christ, then please adjust any links you have; I won’t be checking that too often, and won’t be writing there any more. Why change blogs? Well I…

  • Mystery Worshipper… Or Sychophant?

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    [This] is unbelievable. Oh deary, deary me…

  • Tagged | Five Things You Didn’t Know

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    Malcolm just tagged me, and even though I’m not blogging I guess I ought to play the game 😉 So here’s five things you probably didn’t know about me: 1. I’m a third generation Maths teacher. My dad and granddad. It’s like the family business. 2. I used to be in a band called Caned…

  • Advent Calendar

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    Ryan got me thinking about numbers this morning, and the countdown that is Advent. Advent Calendar Cardboard windows and gold numbers; A candle burning down digits while cash flows Like chocolate and pies and rivers and drink. I’ve been counting the cost of Christmas, working out what’s been taken away; occupied Palestine and tinsel banned,…