Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Technology: Fight the Power

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    I’ve been musing while away. Wondering: what is technology? It struck me as we tanked along in a car about to seize up that it was nssothing more than raw creation re-worked by human hands. Forged to help us. Rock, sand and timber reined in wild like horses and bridled under our control. In other…

  • End of the Original: Old Masters vs Artists of the Digital

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    "The dominance of the art market – not to mention the art object – is being challenged by hackers, code warriors, and artistically motivated nerds who prefer networks, websites, and $19.95 posters to glitzy shows and art-star fame." Thus begins the article ‘My Art World is Bigger Than Your Art World’ in December’s issue of…

  • Happy Chris™as Everyone!

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    Have a great few days. Here’s to the Trojan Baby. Caesarean Sections The bitter old man stands at the gates of the earth Waiting Watching
Guarding the only entrance and exit to this citadel planet.
The babies file in and the dead file out
And he watches them
Grimly keeping count. 
He watches He waits
He shivers to shake
The tired…

  • Find the Imperfection: Exist there

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    It’s always refreshing to have a drink with Nic. We got onto talking around post + modernity, pre + post incarnation, plausibility structures and the concept of phase changes, which Pete Ward never quite expanded on in his book Liquid Church… Usual pub fayre. The root question: how do things change? What are the actual…

  • Emergent Church

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    Andrew has blogged a lot about the impact of Web 2.0 style thinking on the Church, and I would totally agree that we can learn a lot from the ‘governing dynamics’ that are making these new ‘applications’ take off. Flicking around some sites on this, I came across this diagram, which holds some amazing parallels…

  • On Riches and Freedom | Faith and Direction

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    “You have riches and freedom here, but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don’t you use them in the search for love?” Lech Walesa. On his first visit outside the Soviet bloc.