Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • Solid | Liquid | Gas – Baumann and Ecclesiastic Phase Change

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    This morning I was sent an article to look over, which contained reference to Baumann’s work on ‘liquid modernity’, taken up by Pete Ward in his book ‘Liquid Church’. It set me thinking again, as I had done when discussing Pete’s thesis at a very early Blah…, about how much Baumann knew about the science…

  • Purchasing from the US/Abroad

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    A number of people have asked how they can get hold of the book from the US/Canada/Oz etc. It seems import taxes, custom delays etc. have hampered getting the book from amazon.co.uk. To get round the problem you can now get the book direct from me (signed if you wish!) for US$25 including all p&p.…

  • Leadership and Ethics […] 3

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    To summarize the previous 2 posts: •    Griffin proposes that we need to think differently about ethics, and this will mean we will think differently about leadership. I have taken this, in our situation, to mean that we must avoid projecting heroes or villains – which is still happening too often in ECs. •…

  • Sowing Your Seed…

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    Interesting debate going on in the UK media at the moment about whether or not people should be paid to donate their eggs/sperms. The UK watchdog on this has recommended that payments for sperm stop, and that people should simply receive recompense for travel and/or loss of earnings. The reason given? ‘Because people should be…

  • Leadership and Ethics […] 2

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    To summarize the previous post: It’s my theological contention that the Church needs to become a ‘self organizing’ system if it is to properly model the holy freedom God has given us post-Incarnation. In Griffin’s ‘The Emergence of Leadership – Linking Self-Organization and Ethics’ – he posits that there is an apparent paradox in much…

  • Leadership and Ethics in the Self-Organizing Emergent Church 1

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    This is a long post I know; hope you persevere with it. The issues of leadership, in particular whether people ought to work full time for the church has provoked some wide debate on this blog before. [ see posts and comments here and here ] It’s something that I’ve been thinking over for a…