Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Love Thy Neighbour… Wirelessly and for free | iPhones and Social Networking II

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    Following the previous post about some of the deeper issues behind social networking, and with the much hyped release of Apple’s iPhone, I was struck by this piece on Channel 4 news about free mobile calls on wireless. (It reminded me too about a Wired piece on open-source mobile phones, which is great) It seems…

  • Game Over//US Release//Adjust Your Links

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    I’m pleased to be able to announce that The Complex Christ is now going to be released properly in the US. Thank God. No more trips to the post office to mail them over! And no more customs delays! I’ll post a purchase link when I have one. It’s going to be re-named Signs of…

  • Insert Coin [3] | Final Fantasy

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    [Level 1] [Level 2] Emerging Church: Game or Ritual? As The Believer points out, one aspect of games such as Dungeons and Dragons is that of fantasy. When you enter a game, you are entering ‘role play’ – becoming someone else. Becoming a fantasy self. This is something I have critiqued in more detail here.…

  • Insert Coin [2] | Weapons::Rules::Power

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    [First Level] Game or Ritual? This was the key question addressed in Level One. Lévi-Strauss made the distinction between Games (“they end in the establishment of a difference between players or teams where originally there was no indication of inequality”) and Rituals (“it brings about a union, or in any case, an organic relation between…

  • Insert Coin | Is Church a Game?

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    The ever-brilliant Believer Magazine took ‘Games’ as its theme for the September issue. It’s left me with some thoughts I want to share, probably over the course of a few posts. One of the main articles, by Paul La Farge, was an exploration of Dungeons and Dragons, which, in typical Believer style, meant a gorgeous…

  • Life-jacket | Strait-jacket

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    Ben has some good thoughts here about the search for a ‘just society’ being debased by ‘human rights’. He makes the point that “the ideology of a tolerant society has become a straight jacket that prevents human freedom”. I was reminded by the metaphor a colleague once used about our National Curriculum, and to recycle…