Kester Brewin

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  • Insert Coin [3] | Final Fantasy

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    [Level 1] [Level 2] Emerging Church: Game or Ritual? As The Believer points out, one aspect of games such as Dungeons and Dragons is that of fantasy. When you enter a game, you are entering ‘role play’ – becoming someone else. Becoming a fantasy self. This is something I have critiqued in more detail here.…

  • Insert Coin [2] | Weapons::Rules::Power

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    [First Level] Game or Ritual? This was the key question addressed in Level One. Lévi-Strauss made the distinction between Games (“they end in the establishment of a difference between players or teams where originally there was no indication of inequality”) and Rituals (“it brings about a union, or in any case, an organic relation between…

  • Creation>Preservation>Destruction | Genesis in Reverse?

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    Part of my timetable this year is teaching some RE. It’s been a fascinating change. One of the things I’ve been covering is the Genesis story with a group of 11 year olds. Reading through the story and analysing the day-by-day creation, one student commented on the environmental obligation that the text suggested. In the…

  • Double Bind | Should Environmentalists Buy up Gas-Guzzlers?

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    Our car, a truly horrible beast, has been making strange noises from the engine for about a year. In January our mechanic deemed it a fatal problem: it wasn’t worth the cost of fixing, and it might run for 2/20/200/2000 miles. It did about the 2000. Which got us over the Severn Bridge into Wales…

  • Would The Real Islam Please… Sit Down?

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    “You say I’m violent once more, and I swear I’ll smack your head in” The furore over the Pope’s ill-chosen comments created an interesting debate on the radio this morning. It seems that his apology has not been enough for many Muslims, who have reacted to his perceived accusation of Islam being a violent religion…

  • The FlowMarket™

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    Thanks to Saga for this [link] All products available from The Flowmarket™ Technorati Tags: Art, Consumption, Design, Flow Market