Kester Brewin

Tag: Complexity

  • Leadership Day This Saturday

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    Looking forward to spending this Saturday discussing leadership issues at the first Blah… learning day, with Anna Draper, Jonny Baker and Paul Roberts. I’ll be sharing some thoughts first published here. Book [ here ] Technorati Tags: Emerging Church, Ministry, Theology, Westminster

  • On Meaning [1] | Absolute Truth

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    A few weeks ago Nic and Jonathan and I had one of our occasional drinks at the Crown and Greyhound and ended up in a very politely heated debate on ‘meaning’, which we are planning to jointly thrash out here and over at Haunted Geographies (though not sure exactly when he’ll be posting). It had…

  • The Judas I Never Knew

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    There has been some debate stirred over the discovery/translation of ‘The Gospel of Judas‘. For those of you who haven’t read The Complex Christ (and why not?! Buy it here, now!), I wanted to outline some of my thoughts on Judas from the book. We are often encouraged to meditate on characters from Scripture. To…

  • Self-Organizing Island Community informs Organizational Software

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    Article in Wired, here. “If Friday’s boat from St. Mary was cancelled, there might be six people in the village that needed to know. Armstrong found consistently they would all have that information within hours, even without a formal distribution system, and few uninterested people would be burdened with the knowledge.” Technorati Tags: Technology

  • President vs Archbishop | The End of Patriarchal Leadership?

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    A couple of recent posts I’ve read to link together: In an excellent post here Will Samson explores the failings of the religious right in US politics. “Beyond the public moral failures, however I believe that 2006 will be the beginning of significant political failures for the religious right. I believe we will begin to…

  • Emerging Church and The Hunch Engine

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    Article in Wired on an emerging software that combines hunches with mutations to take anything, from photo manipulation to postman route planning in new directions that have a individual touch. “Our hunches tend to be repetitive and predictable, while mutation can take us in novel directions” The parallels with new EC programmes are obvious. Keep…