Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • The Spiritual Failings of an ‘Emerging Leader’ 1 | Failing to Fast

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    At a lecture given by a world-renowned and very high-brow artist, a friend asked in the Q&A afterwards "It’s been great hearing about your work, could you outline some of your failings." The guy was floored. But his answer gave more insight into his work than 3 hours of talks about his great work ever…

  • Labyrinth of Inaction | The Symbolic Life

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    In the comments on the environmentally tinged previous post, ‘Suzanna’ wrote that: "Some is my faith community are thrilled that it is so "easy" to go to Nairobi in a group 60+ to help with AIDs sufferers. Airfare? CO2 emmissions? What kind of economy are they demonstrating?" It’s a frustration I fully sympathize with. The…

  • Global Re-boot | Deep Ecology

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    The Norwegian government today released the final plans today for the ‘doomsday vault’ that will eventually hold seeds from all known varieties of crops in safe storage in case of ‘nuclear war, asteroid strike or environmental catastrophe’. They’re building it on a remote island near the North Pole. In the event of a burn up…

  • The Open Office ¦ Liturgy Share

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    The Artists Formely Known as Vaux have just launched a project called The Open Office. (Here’s one of us at work 😉 What we’re hoping to achieve is simple: an open-source, online space to resource a liturgical rhythm of life. A monastic office… but for the emerging city. Over the years we’ve written a whole…

  • Soliton II

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    The Celtic Soliton Sessions have just finished. Some great times, as ever. Reflections? Thoughts? Conclusions? There’s a Chinese proverb I quote at the beginning of Signs… which says: ‘The fish-trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve got the fish, the trap can be forgotten. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve got the meaning,…

  • Wake up, sleepy heads!

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    Sleep has always fascinated me. Something about absence making the heart grow fonder, perhaps. Via Wired today there’s a great article about science’s renewed interest in sleep: why do we do it? Fish die quicker without sleep than food… It is essential to all mammals. One interesting perspective it raises: the more sensible question is…