Community – Kester Brewin

‘I Believe in God, and the Internet is my Religion’ | The Radical Commons | Marx

Jun 14, 2011

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Emerging Church, Technology, Theology

Thanks to @designbygecko for putting me on to this extraordinary talk by Jim Gilliam at a web conference recently. Jim was brought up a fervent evanglical – and remains so, except that his faith is now truly in the Internet. He has his reasons for his conversion: he’s suffered multiple cancers and had to…

What Exactly is Community? | Gathering Around an Absent Christ [2]

Nov 2, 2010

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in Church, Emerging Church, Theology

In the previous post I looked at the apparent need for a community to gather around a common purpose, and how the beauty of Christian community is that it paradoxically gathers round an absence – thus both preventing those in the community from having a purely inward focus, and driving them to encounter and engage…

The ‘Senior Companion’ | Immortal Cyborgs for the Lonely Elderly

Oct 25, 2010

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KB

in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Emerging Church, Technology, Theology

When you get old, do you think you’ll be lonely? Do you think you’ll want someone to talk to and reminisce with? Naturally, someone has come up with a technological solution… the ‘Senior Companion.’ Very interesting piece in this month’s Prospect. The ‘Senior Companion’ is a ‘a conversational agent designed to interact with a person…

Hitler Youth | Rebuilding the Structure | The Problem of the Next Generation

Jan 13, 2010

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KB

in Blog Series, Church, Emerging Church, Politics, Theology

In the previous post I tried to explore how Christian community could move away from the sociopathic tendencies it naturally develops in worship of an omnipotent God by a passive congregation directed through a ‘hero’ priest. In doing so I proposed that what we find in the radical Marxist view of Christianity is a community…

Tag: Community

‘I Believe in God, and the Internet is my Religion’ | The Radical Commons | Marx

What Exactly is Community? | Gathering Around an Absent Christ [2]

The ‘Senior Companion’ | Immortal Cyborgs for the Lonely Elderly

Hitler Youth | Rebuilding the Structure | The Problem of the Next Generation