Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Leadership and Ethics […] 4 – Leadership is disturbing.

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    For those who might just be looking in, I’ve been writing a series of posts concerning leadership in the Emerging Church. I say ‘concerning’ because I have some concerns that unless we actually deal with the leadership issue properly we will simply end up with the same church situation we are critiquing. But with tea-lights.…

  • Human Endoskeletons | Urban Exoskeletons | The Emerging Church Needs a Backbone

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    I mentioned in the title for the Blah… talk something about urban exoskeletons, but didn’t get to it, so I thought I’d just fill in here. Manuel de Landa, in his excellent book 1000 Years of Non-Linear History talks about the evolution of species and cities in some really interesting ways. One of the comments…

  • The Theology Question Again…

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    Phil, who was at Blah… last night raises the question in a comment on the previous post: “Previously theology has been at the centre of any discussion about church development but increasingly those engaged in the emerging church conversation seem to be listening more to cultural analysists, psychologists, philosophers and sociologists and less to theologians…”…

  • Blah… Blah Blah

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    Had a great few days away, and things seemed to go well at Blah… in Manchester last night. The Nexus space that is getting going there seems excellent. For anyone who is interested, the (very sketchy) notes I spoke from I’ve uploaded as a PDF here: I’d actually mentioned something about exoskeletons in the brief…

  • Solid | Liquid | Gas – Baumann and Ecclesiastic Phase Change

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    This morning I was sent an article to look over, which contained reference to Baumann’s work on ‘liquid modernity’, taken up by Pete Ward in his book ‘Liquid Church’. It set me thinking again, as I had done when discussing Pete’s thesis at a very early Blah…, about how much Baumann knew about the science…

  • Leadership and Ethics […] 3

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    To summarize the previous 2 posts: •    Griffin proposes that we need to think differently about ethics, and this will mean we will think differently about leadership. I have taken this, in our situation, to mean that we must avoid projecting heroes or villains – which is still happening too often in ECs. •…