Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Emergent, emerging, emergent? | Is Signs ‘Just Another Emerging Church Book’?

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    No this isn’t a lesson in Latin conjugation… but language and its evolving meanings are important. With the release of the book, people have been wondering if this is just ‘another emerging church book’. I’d like to answer that with an emphatic no! Part of the reason for that is, I feel less and less…

  • More Papal Bull… “If It’s Not Catholic, It’s Not A Proper Church”

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    The Times reports today that "The Vatican has described the Protestant and Orthodox faiths as “not proper Churches” in a document issued with the full authority of the Pope." "The Orthodox church suffers from a wound because it does not recognise the primacy of the Pope. The wound is even more profound in Protestant denominations,…

  • Wikiklesia: Voices from the Virtual World

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    I am really pleased to have been able to contribute a chapter to a great new book: ‘Voices from the Virtual World’. It’s been put together under the umbrella of ‘Wikiklesia’, which is a collaborative publishing project. "Voices of the Virtual World explores the growing influence of technology on the global Christian church. In this…

  • Is The Emerging Church Hopelessly Utopian? [3]

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    Hopelessly Utopian [1] Hopelessly Utopian [2] Thanks for the comments on the above posts. In response to Cheryl and Becky, yes, of course every church movement has felt ‘no one else has ever felt this way before’. And it’s actually important to recognise that, as Gray does in Black Mass, suggesting that ‘the utopian instinct…

  • Is The Emerging Church Hopelessly Utopian? [2]

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    In the previous post, I outlined John Gray’s recent conclusion that, post-Iraq (and thus, essentially, post Neo-con), post-Communism, post-Marxism, post-Nazism, the grand utopian ideas of the 20th Century had proved themselves failures, and that we should all give up on grand political visions. I paralleled that with some of the disenchantment I’ve seen expressed about…

  • Is The Emerging Church Hopelessly Utopian? [1]

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    In this month’s Prospect, Anthony Dworkin explores the idea of utopias. Utopian ideas have been a disaster in the twentieth century: Nazism, Marxism, Communism… and we can go further back in history to see their failures in both political and religious manifestations. In the 19th Century many utopians tried to create perfect societies in their…