Kester Brewin

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  • Whole Foods Coming… At What Price?

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    Very interesting article in The Independent today about the arrival of Whole Foods – a US supermarket chain – in the UK. They sell all organic, wholesome food, and they have just become the US’s biggest exponent of renewable energy by off-setting all of their energy use against renewable energy purchases. Very commendable. However, what…

  • St Paul’s Cathedral To Become Café Church Shock

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    OK, that’s not quite true, but they’ve been turned down for a Lottery grant… for being ‘too exclusive’ and been told they ‘must attract attract new audiences.’ The Baker head-hunt from CMS “Café Mission Society” starts here. More troublingly, what’s the centre-piece of a £4.5billion rich organization doing going cap in hand to the Lottery…

  • Neophilia [3] | Christian Fantasy Cycles and Stages of Faith

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    In the last post I tried to argue, using Booker’s excellent book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties‘ that we must avoid sensationalism. That we must avoid the projected image, the sensational, which in the age of screens and billboards is a difficult thing to do. Booker warns that…

  • What Would You Do With £4,500,000,000?

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    That’s the value of the property portfolio of Church of England plc – the Church Commissioners. I’m on an electoral roll… Am I a stakeholder? Can I pursuade the board to do certain things with the cash? I hate to ask, but WWJD? Fine time to pay tribute to Tony Banks MP – a true…

  • Neophilia [2] | Emerging Church and the Cult of Sensation | Keep it Real

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    ‘In this our time, the minds of men are so diverse, that some think it a great matter of conscience to depart from a piece of their old customs; and again, on the other side, some be so new-fangled, that they would innovate all things, and so despise the old, that nothing can like them…

  • Are We Just Neophiliacs? [1]

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    New Year, new blog series on… Newness. Actually, I’ve been meaning to write something for some time around the book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties’ that Christopher Booker (the first editor of Private Eye) wrote back in the late 60’s. The Amazon synopsis for ‘The Neophiliacs’ is rather…