Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • Church: A Great Place to Sleep

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    It seems that my hunch about the link between sleep and our complex/emergent brains was right, at least according to this article in The Guardian today. In an article I wrote some time back, I expanded on this a little more, but to summarize: It is when we sleep that our brains do the ‘post-processing’…

  • Leadership and Ethics […] 4 – Leadership is disturbing.

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    For those who might just be looking in, I’ve been writing a series of posts concerning leadership in the Emerging Church. I say ‘concerning’ because I have some concerns that unless we actually deal with the leadership issue properly we will simply end up with the same church situation we are critiquing. But with tea-lights.…

  • Human Endoskeletons | Urban Exoskeletons | The Emerging Church Needs a Backbone

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    I mentioned in the title for the Blah… talk something about urban exoskeletons, but didn’t get to it, so I thought I’d just fill in here. Manuel de Landa, in his excellent book 1000 Years of Non-Linear History talks about the evolution of species and cities in some really interesting ways. One of the comments…

  • The Theology Question Again…

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    Phil, who was at Blah… last night raises the question in a comment on the previous post: “Previously theology has been at the centre of any discussion about church development but increasingly those engaged in the emerging church conversation seem to be listening more to cultural analysists, psychologists, philosophers and sociologists and less to theologians…”…

  • Blah… Blah Blah

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    Had a great few days away, and things seemed to go well at Blah… in Manchester last night. The Nexus space that is getting going there seems excellent. For anyone who is interested, the (very sketchy) notes I spoke from I’ve uploaded as a PDF here: I’d actually mentioned something about exoskeletons in the brief…

  • Sanctuary and Dereliction…

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    I’m going to be away from Saturday until the following weekend. Holiday in Wales, then to Manchester on Thursday 20th to speak at Blah… on Cities, God and the Urban etc. Be good to see people there. In the mean time, many thanks to Saga (more of soon) for the link to these wonderful images…