Author: KB
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The Spirit Level Debate – Inequality is Contentious
One of the sources I quote a number of times in Other is The Spirit Level – Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. The thrust of their thesis is very simple: by collating hundreds of studies over a long period of time they have concluded that the…
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New Wine… Old Wineskins? | Steering Your Church to a New Place [2]
I promised some further thoughts following on from yesterday’s post… One of the most common questions I am asked is ‘how can I begin to get my church to change’, and while I’d never claim expertise, or that there was a simple answer to this, I thought it might be useful to note a few…
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New Wine… Old Wineskins? | Steering Your Church to a New Place [1]
Had a good time at my first visit to New Wine yesterday. I’d been asked to go and speak about the book, which I duly did, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Speaking at Greenbelt you’re pretty much already in a place where people are critiquing the forms and structures of faith, so it was very interesting…
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In Defence of TAZ – A Response to Jonny’s Review
Jonny has posted a very comprehensive review of ‘Other’ on his blog, which is well worth a read. He admits that he found it tricky to get right given the back-and-forth we’ve had recently over the issue of institutions, but I think he’s done a good job. It seems that the book is causing quite…
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David Harvey on What Next After Capitalism…
HT to Barry for putting me on to this animation of a short talk by Marx-expert David Harvey. Brilliant.