Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Can Anyone Tell Me What Preaching Is For?

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    I’m really not sure anymore. Not that I particularly used to be, though it’s something I’ve enjoyed doing myself in the past. And that’s what worries me: people who do it, enjoy it. The select chosen few get their weekly 20 minutes to show us how clever they are at public speaking. If we were…

  • “We Knock Upon Silence for an Answering Music”

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    May sees the creative act as an encounter between two poles. A dialectical process between the subjective pole – the artist – and the objective pole – that which the artist is contemplating. It is in the moment of encounter between them that newness occurs. He quotes Archibald MacLeish on this, who sees these two…

  • Liturgy for the Dedication of a Child

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    As requested, (see previous post) the files from the dedication service we wrote. For background info, it was held in a CofE church one Saturday (ie not in a normal service) and was led by the Vicar… It happened literally the day before the last Vaux wake, so was in the Spirit of Vaux, though…

  • Birth | Life | Death / Emerging Church and Rites of Passage

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    Interesting piece on the radio this morning about the rise of road-side ‘shrines’ in the UK. Flowers, weathered photos, crosses peek out from lamp-posts and hedgerows, marking sites of fatal crashes and lives cut short. One man interviewed had lost his nephew in a car crash, and now visited the site daily, keeping the flowers…

  • Less, Lord!

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    May again: “It often occurs to me that people living in our modern, hectic civilization, amid the constant din of radio and TV, subjecting themselves to every kind of stimulation whether of the passive sort of TV or the more active sort of conversation, work and activity, that people with such constant preoccupations find it…

  • Stages of Faith – Anxiety, Church and the Freedom to Doubt

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    More from ‘The Courage to Create‘ by Rollo May – an excellent book on the psychology of creativity. May was conducting some research into the roots of anxiety, and based his study on groups of teenage mothers in a shelter in New York. He was pretty sure his hypothesis – that their anxiety would be…