Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Soliton II | The Other

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    Si has posted some reflections on Soliton, and makes some excellent points about the terrible way in which The Bridge community have been treated by the local city council. A pregnant mother. Homeless. On Christmas Eve. Would your church have turfed her out? They didn’t, and they’ve been turfed too. But their mission of hospitality…

  • Soliton | The Gospel of Welcome

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    Just at LAX now on my way back from Solition. What with the security alerts in the UK, my flights home have been changed, cancelled and delayed… and changed again to suit me much better than the original plan. At one time I thought I’d have no hand baggage allowed, but they’ve relaxed that just…

  • Should Mission be about Funding? | Small is Beautiful

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    Over at TallSkinnyKiwi Andrew has posted some thoughts on How To Ask Foundations For Money. This isn’t the first time Andrew’s posts have made me feel a little uncomfortable. And it won’t be the last. And I’m glad about that. He’s a guy who keeps me itching. But, I have to say, the post did…

  • The 3rd Economy: Gift, Market and Plunder [5] | Power Discourses | Mission | Plunder

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    [ Gift, Market and Plunder [1] ] | [ Gift, Market and Plunder [2] ] [ Gift, Market and Plunder [3] ] | [ Gift, Market and Plunder [4] ] In the third post in this series – in which I am exploring an update to the ideas of gift presented in the book –…

  • How many EC Bloggers Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?

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    In the great tradition of such things, I propose: 1 To change the bulb and post about it 315 To lurk around and make no comment 2 To propose a stack of del.icio.us tags the poster should have put in 16 To complain he should have used categories 4 To flag up a conference on…

  • Glass Works

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    Just wanted to flag up Saga Arpino’s site cataloguing and promoting her work. A recent post-grad of the Royal College of Art, Saga is fine artist, a Vaux accomplice, and her award-winning work in glass is fantastic. Order some for your space now. Technorati Tags: Architecture, Art, Glass, London