Kester Brewin

Tag: Complexity

  • Neophilia [3] | Christian Fantasy Cycles and Stages of Faith

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    In the last post I tried to argue, using Booker’s excellent book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties‘ that we must avoid sensationalism. That we must avoid the projected image, the sensational, which in the age of screens and billboards is a difficult thing to do. Booker warns that…

  • Neophilia [2] | Emerging Church and the Cult of Sensation | Keep it Real

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    ‘In this our time, the minds of men are so diverse, that some think it a great matter of conscience to depart from a piece of their old customs; and again, on the other side, some be so new-fangled, that they would innovate all things, and so despise the old, that nothing can like them…

  • Are We Just Neophiliacs? [1]

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    New Year, new blog series on… Newness. Actually, I’ve been meaning to write something for some time around the book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties’ that Christopher Booker (the first editor of Private Eye) wrote back in the late 60’s. The Amazon synopsis for ‘The Neophiliacs’ is rather…

  • Winning the War?

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    “I declare that World War III is now being waged by short-haired robots whose deliberate aim is to destroy the complex web of free wild life by the imposition of mechanical order.” Timothy Leary in his Manifesto, written on escaping from prison and fleeing to Algeria. I think we’re gradually winning now, Tim. We got…

  • Technology: Fight the Power

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    I’ve been musing while away. Wondering: what is technology? It struck me as we tanked along in a car about to seize up that it was nssothing more than raw creation re-worked by human hands. Forged to help us. Rock, sand and timber reined in wild like horses and bridled under our control. In other…

  • Emergent Church

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    Andrew has blogged a lot about the impact of Web 2.0 style thinking on the Church, and I would totally agree that we can learn a lot from the ‘governing dynamics’ that are making these new ‘applications’ take off. Flicking around some sites on this, I came across this diagram, which holds some amazing parallels…