Quotations – Page 2 – Kester Brewin

Snow and Strangers – TAZ excerpt from Other

Nov 29, 2010

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With the current snowy and icy conditions in the UK I thought I’d post an extract from ‘Other’ which links the huge snowfalls we’ve had in the past couple of winters to the idea of TAZ which is one of the central themes of ‘Other‘ – a welcome addition to anyone’s Christmas present pile, heartily…

The Problem with Digital Culture [1]: Too Much, Too Fast

Oct 8, 2010

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Quotations, Technology

I’ve been reading The Shallows – How the Internet is Changing How We Think, Read and Remember and led a discussion about the effects of digital culture on our brains for our 6th Form yesterday. It was actually a very interest debate, which took in the printing press, Shakespeare, violence, gaming and, most importantly, speed…

Movements or Institutions? | A New Kind of Christianity

Jun 28, 2010

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in Emerging Church, Quotations, Theology

Been really enjoying Brian McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity. In the concluding chapter he outlines what this new sort of Christianity might look like, and in one section suggests at a denominational level that churches ‘develop a theology of institutions.’ What he says is interesting in the light of the short series…

Mashing Up Text [3] | Hold On, Isn’t That The Qur’an?

Mar 25, 2010

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in Arts, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Quotations, Theology

[ Mash Up 1 ] [ Mash Up 2 ] In the previous two posts I’ve been trying to explore what our relationship is to text, especially when the text we are reading is ‘too comfortable’. David Shields has been trying to shock people into re-thinking what next for literature in his manifesto, Reality Hunger,…

Mashing Up Text [1] | Reality Hunger

Mar 23, 2010

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in Arts, Philosophy, Quotations

[ Mash Up 2 ] [ Mash Up 3 ] In case you missed it, there has been something of a storm raging in some parts of the world of letters over David Shields’ new book: Reality Hunger. Why? Because in this brave manifesto, he takes on the future of literature by means of ‘some…

Marilynne Robinson | Dawkins | ‘An Intellectually and Culturally Informed Christianity’

May 30, 2009

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in Arts, Quotations

A rare interview in today’s Guardian with the author of Gilead, Housekeeping and now Home, includes this lovely quote regarding Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens: “[Dawkins] acts as if the physical world that is manifest to us describes reality exhaustively. I’m not impressed with the quality of [his] writing, or of Christopher Hitchens’ writing. If…

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