Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Foolishness to The Greeks

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    The next Grace service is on tonight, and promises to be a mix of their usual explorative worship tricks, with an Ortho-twist. Having forged links with the local Greek community in Ealing, Jonny, Steve Collins et al have invited the neighbourhood’s Greek Orthodox congregation to join them at Grace. The theme will be ‘foolishness’, and…

  • Nic’s Blog | Haunted Geographies

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    Nic is/was/shall always be a co-conspirator. He’s a very fine designer, and is graphing a complex and beautiful path on the axes of spirituality and design. He’s finally relented and started a blog. I’ve added him to my Blogs list, and encourage you to click there often. Technorati Tags: Art, Blogging, Design, Spirituality

  • Dead-End Job?

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    Horrific story here of co-workers not noticing for 5 days that a colleague had died. “The moral of the story: don’t work too hard, nobody notices anyway.” Technorati Tags: Death, Work

  • On Music

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    This year’s Reith Lectures, to be broadcast shortly on the BBC, are to be given by Daniel Barenboim under the title ‘In the Beginning was Sound’. I’m hoping they live up to the excellent title, which reminded my of Claude Levi-Strauss’ Overture introduction to his seminal work on myths The Raw and The Cooked, which…

  • Self-Organizing Island Community informs Organizational Software

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    Article in Wired, here. “If Friday’s boat from St. Mary was cancelled, there might be six people in the village that needed to know. Armstrong found consistently they would all have that information within hours, even without a formal distribution system, and few uninterested people would be burdened with the knowledge.” Technorati Tags: Technology

  • Emerging Leadership Day | Churchless Faith Follow-up Book

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    Two quick links: Firstly, I am looking forward to sharing some thoughts on leadership in emerging organizations at the blah… learning day. I’ll be joined by Maggi Dawn, who will reflect on trying to re-imagine leadership in the ancient structures of the Anglican church and Ana Draper of L8R, who has recently completed her MSc…