Kester Brewin

Tag: Culture

  • Keep Your Relationship Together: Remain in the Gift

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    My brother came back from visiting two friends (not pictured 😉 in France the other day. They had sold up, moved over there with their kids and bought a tiny run down farm in the countryside. They live on/off it at pretty subsistence level with a few cattle to fatten and growing their own veg.…

  • Alistair Campbell’s Diaries | The Best Summary of Blair Years | US vs UK

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    In a review of Campbell’s diaries, David Hare notes: “The virtues of pride, aggression and solidarity forged in the heat of New Labour’s difficult evolution proved pitifully inadequate to contain a neoconservative ally far more ruthless than itself… It was no longer enough to be on message. Sadly, for the lives of so many, it…

  • Is The Emerging Church Hopelessly Utopian? [2]

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    In the previous post, I outlined John Gray’s recent conclusion that, post-Iraq (and thus, essentially, post Neo-con), post-Communism, post-Marxism, post-Nazism, the grand utopian ideas of the 20th Century had proved themselves failures, and that we should all give up on grand political visions. I paralleled that with some of the disenchantment I’ve seen expressed about…

  • Tales of Two Buildings::Two Cities::The Divine Vision

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    Mika Brzezinski recently refused to lead with a story about P@&i$ Hi%ton over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a similar vein, Wired reported in ‘A Tale of Two Cities‘ that a trawl of the web revealed more interest in the iPhone than the recent triple-attempted bombing on London and Glasgow. Celebrity::Security::Gossip::War :: These…

  • Christians Forced to Leave Iraq

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    Thanks to Will for the heads up on this article suggesting that Christians in Iraq are being forced to leave their homes as their neighbourhoods are ‘Islamicized’. One wonders what Qur’an these people are reading, as I’m pretty sure the holy book demands that Christians are treated well and allowed freedom to worship. Certainly, Surah…

  • Blair, Brown, Catholicism and The Protestant Work Ethic

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    So, after 10 years and a roller-coaster political ride, we say goodbye to Prime Minister Blair, and hello Prime Minister Brown. Personally, I’m optimistic. I think we desperately need some new energy, vision and impetus in British political life, and I think Brown is the right man for the job. What has been interesting though…