Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Soliton | Dangerous Living

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    This weekend I’ll be joining Jonny, Andrew, Si, Gareth, Saga, Pete and others in the Northern Ireland Soliton Sessions. The theme is Dangerous Living. Looking forward to it. More details here. Technorati: soliton | Northern Ireland

  • Abstinent? Want to be Filmed About it? | Channel 4 Doc

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    A researcher from Channel 4 (in the UK) has contacted me (I know not why!) wondering if I could ‘pass on any names of Christians in their 20s and 30s who are eloquent, attractive, hip, modern and can present arguments for abstinence in an appealing and convincing way.’ If only I knew people like that!…

  • Eno Interview | ‘Evangelical Atheism and Secular Spiritual Places’

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    Excellent interview with Brian Eno on Front Row today. Well worth a podcast or download. For one week only. In reply to a question about his music being ‘spiritual’ he admits to be being an ‘evangelical atheist’ but that he is ‘jealous of the spiritual experiences the religious have access to.’ His recent work seeks…

  • Prophet and Loss | Emerging Islam?

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    I read a story today of this guy living in the Middle East in this really corrupt community; full of drunkards, cheating businesses, aggression, anti-social behaviour. He’d had a rough childhood himself – orphaned by 6, sent to live with his grandfather, who then died. He’d ended up with his uncle, followed him into his…

  • On Form(ats) vs Content | The Medium is not (quite) the Message | Analogue and Digital Faith

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    I had a snoop around the sale items in a department store the other day. A guy in an ill-fitting suit bee-lined me and was desperate to show me the new hard-drive recorders they had in. Tempting, but the prices are crashing and the capacities are inflating, so we’ll hold for a while yet. One…

  • ‘Stay in the City’?

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    Steven Johnson, who wrote the fabulous book ‘Emergence’ [USA | UK] which inspired so much of ‘Signs…’ has a really interesting post on his blog about Leaving Brooklyn. It seems two friends of his were the victims of crime in the area and have decided enough is enough – they are moving out. Johnson’s post…