Kester Brewin

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  • Bi-Vocational Leadership | Si’s ‘Life More Ordinary’

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    Excellent post from Si Johnston here. “So in closing, I think our new terrain for mission requires a serious look at the training grounds for leaders, the growing of new streamlined infrastructures for supporting less full-time leaders which in turn must be coupled with a pro-active move towards ‘bi-vocational leadership’ for more people.” As I…

  • A Polite Message to Condoleezza Rice About Democracy

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    Condoleezza is currently enjoying a tour of the North of the UK, hosted by Jack Straw, UK Foreign Secretary, and they have faced anti-war demonstrators at every turn. Condi’s response: “The protesters make my point. Democracy is the only system that allows people to be heard, and heard peacefully.” It’s not just her. This has…

  • Foolishness to The Greeks

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    The next Grace service is on tonight, and promises to be a mix of their usual explorative worship tricks, with an Ortho-twist. Having forged links with the local Greek community in Ealing, Jonny, Steve Collins et al have invited the neighbourhood’s Greek Orthodox congregation to join them at Grace. The theme will be ‘foolishness’, and…

  • Nic’s Blog | Haunted Geographies

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    Nic is/was/shall always be a co-conspirator. He’s a very fine designer, and is graphing a complex and beautiful path on the axes of spirituality and design. He’s finally relented and started a blog. I’ve added him to my Blogs list, and encourage you to click there often. Technorati Tags: Art, Blogging, Design, Spirituality

  • Dead-End Job?

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    Horrific story here of co-workers not noticing for 5 days that a colleague had died. “The moral of the story: don’t work too hard, nobody notices anyway.” Technorati Tags: Death, Work

  • On Music

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    This year’s Reith Lectures, to be broadcast shortly on the BBC, are to be given by Daniel Barenboim under the title ‘In the Beginning was Sound’. I’m hoping they live up to the excellent title, which reminded my of Claude Levi-Strauss’ Overture introduction to his seminal work on myths The Raw and The Cooked, which…