Kester Brewin

Tag: Church

  • Top-Down | Bottom-Up | Powers

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    An excellent week away, helped by the fantastic sunshine that rayed on us every day, while the South got soaked in rain. Reading material for the train/ferry/bus etc. on the way up/down was this month’s Prospect, which contained an article from some old Blairites challenging Brown to move away from top-down centralised governance to a…

  • New MA at Kings

    —

    by

    KB
    in , ,

    Kings College have a new MA which they wondered if I’d be happy to flag up, which I am. It’s in ‘Politics, Theology and Faith-Based Organisations’, and you can read more about it in the doc attached below.

  • The Nicene Creed | Constantine and the Beginnings of Power Religion

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    Last April, in the build-up to Easter, I posted a series of thoughts about Jesus and Paul’s journeys toward Jerusalem, and the very different attitudes they took when arrested there. I argued that in Paul’s ‘strategising’ to get himself to Rome, we see the conception of power-Christianity, which perhaps came to full birth with the…

  • Crazy for God | Frank Schaeffer at Greenbelt 08

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    “I’d rather be arrested for shoplifting than ever be an evangelical leader again. There was a certain basic and decent honesty about stealing pork chops that selling God had lacked.“ It’s only March, I know, but I’ll put a punt on Crazy for God still being one of my top 5 books of 2008 in…

  • Sort it out gays – stop destroying earth!

    —

    by

    KB
    in ,

    The Telegraph reported recently that an Israeli MP has blamed the recent spate of earthquakes in the Middle East on gays. The Knesset has recently repealed various laws about homosexuality, and this created the siesmic events. Gays were also to blame for flooding in Britain last year, according to one Bishop, and one might also…

  • The Mergees – Sort it out Emergent, We Want an Award Ceremony

    —

    by

    KB
    in

    So the Oscars have been wept along to, and we’ve had the BAFTAs and the BRITs and the Grammys… I think people are missing a trick here. Come on Emergent, give us an award ceremony! We demand a tacky hotel and venue, with numbered tables, free alcohol and cut away shots to Andrew Jones as…