Kester Brewin

Tag: Dirt

  • Nature in the City | Mango Body Whips | Resurrection Hope

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    Back from Scotland. Fine times. Even got some golf in 😉 One of the finest pleasures was reading this article by Jenny Price in The Believer. She’s a nature writer. Who lives in Central LA. And her reflections on the genre of nature writing in the midst of the city is just fabulous: “Is there…

  • 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…

  • Dirty, Tricky London

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    Satirical London exhibition at the Museum of London. Highly recommended. Free.

  • The Compost Christ | Allotment Reflections

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    Following this little bit of Trickery from Gareth at Moot, I felt I ought to provide a little background… and offer a few reflections on soil in the soul of the city. Technorati Tags: Allotment, Gardening, London

  • The Falling Man | ‘It is finished’

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    Last night Channel 4 showed a documentary (based on the Esquire article by Tom Junod) about Richard Drew’s horrific photograph from 9/11, which became known as ‘the falling man.’ Released and used by some in the press in the immediate reports, it then ‘sank without trace’ soon after in an act of seeming self-censorship. The…

  • A Dirty, Robust Messiah

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    An excellent thought for the day from the always-interesting Giles Fraser on the BBC this morning, discussing the essential dirty nature of the incarnation, rendering the sacred/profane divide fuzzy in the extreme. His Greenbelt talk on Why Rothko Is Bad For Your Health is also superb. Buy it on CD, or hassle them to fast-track…