Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • The Dialectical Approach | Advent and Newness

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    I’m a big fan of McSweeney’s and The Believer magazine. On subscribing they sent me a copy of The Believer Book of Writers talking to Writers. The jacket explains that “Believer books has collected, in alphabetical order, twenty-three conversations and correspondences between much admired writers and the writers they admire.” It’s excellent. When people dialogue,…

  • Pognophilia: Growing Beards for the Love of Jesus

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    Wilf, my faithful typographer and CEO of Ratio, and I spent a happy evening over beer some time ago discussing the objective truth that all Christian groups have their own beard. This arose out of the discovery in a book of the condition ‘pognophobia’ – a fear of facial hair. Few Christian men have been…

  • The Homeopathic Church?

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    According to Wired, homeopathy works on the ‘law of infinitesimals’: the more diluted a dose gets, the more potent it becomes. A drug is diluted. Shaken. Diluted again. And again. And again. Until their is less than one molecule of the original in the dose. And this then put into a sugar pellet; makes it…

  • Television: The Drug of the Nation?

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    Strange how a disparate thoughts suddenly meld into something new. I was mulling over what was on TV. Not now, or then, but generally. It all seems to be houses and food. And also mulling on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which has popped up around the Bloge now and again. He identifies a pyramid of…

  • Upcoming.org | Events Node for alt.emerging UK

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    Thanks to Jordan for suggesting the site upcoming.org. Basically, it’s an online events database that you can subscribe to via iCal etc, or view online. See what’s going on in your city, or somewhere you’re going. See who else is going. Invite people to stuff. Add code to your blog. It also has a groups…

  • Small Is Beautiful | Cellular Simplicity

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    An article in this month’s Prospect carries a review by Oliver Morton of Nick Lane’s ‘magnificent’ new book Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. His thesis is an “antidote to the gene-centred view of life… Cells convert the energy they take in from the environment into a form that can be used…