Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • What A Friend We Have In Facebook | The Buddy of Christ

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    As I’ve recently posted, I’m enjoying using Facebook a lot. (Though for how long, with a big court case looming?) One concern though: the nature of ‘friendship’. I’m not sure what the etiquette is regarding friendship requests, but one thing is certain: you have to decide early on on some sort of policy about who…

  • Religion: Ignore God, It’s About The Sacred

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    This month’s Prospect carries an excellent short essay outlining some arguments against Hitchens, Dawkins et al: ‘the evangelical atheists, shouting from their pulpits’. The author, Roger Scruton, is surprised by ‘the extent to which religion is caricatured by its current opponents, who see it as nothing more than a system of unfounded beliefs about the…

  • Scot McKnight Discusses Signs…

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    Over at JesusCreed.Org Some good debate going on about leadership, what it means to be ’emergent’, and whether the book is ‘concrete’ enough. Thanks Scot. Technorati: JesusCreed | Scot McKnight

  • Why I’m Loving Facebook | Dirty Networks

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    Having seen Ben and some others resign themselves to Facebook, I asked them why I should bother… do I really want another digital dimension to have to check/keep up? And with being a teacher, all social networking sites are slightly fraught with potential pitfalls. (Unlike an ex colleague, who I think is very unwise, I…

  • Soliton | Signs Book Launch

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    I’m very pleased to have been asked back to help facilitate the Soliton Sessions 07 in Ventura. If you’re in that part of the world I can’t recommend it highly enough; last summer’s sessions really were one of the highlights of my year. On the Friday night (10th August) we’ll be doing a book launch…

  • Keep Your Relationship Together: Remain in the Gift

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    My brother came back from visiting two friends (not pictured 😉 in France the other day. They had sold up, moved over there with their kids and bought a tiny run down farm in the countryside. They live on/off it at pretty subsistence level with a few cattle to fatten and growing their own veg.…