Kester Brewin

Tag: Dirt

  • Clinton? Obama? McCain? This Guy Gets My Vote…

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    Thanks so much to Shane and his people for sending me a copy of his new book, written with Chris Haw, Jesus for President. It’s gorgeous to look at and hold, fabulously designed, and perfectly balanced between seriousness and playfulness… starting with the title. Why can’t every Christian book be like this? I just hope…

  • Saviour Sibling?

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    A bill regarding the use of human embryos is currently passing through parliament at the moment, and, naturally, causing a huge amount of debate. One piece on the BBC caught my ear the other morning – a Bishop was asked what he thought about the creation of so-called ‘saviour siblings’: human beings created for the…

  • Jaime Lerner ¦ Stealth and the City ¦ The City is Not the Self

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    Thanks to Helen of Urban Practitioners for sending me this article in The Guardian a couple of weeks back about Jaime Lerner and his radical environmental policies that have transformed the Brazilian city of Curitiba. I say environmental in the truest sense: he is an architect by trade, and is concerned with the built environment,…

  • No, This is Not a Joke | Yes, This is a Post About Bestiality

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    Or, perhaps more accurately, a post about liberty. An article I read over the weekend was arguing that the Church has let people down by shying away from theologies of sex. So I thought I’d dip my toe in… Good to hear Peter Tatchell on the radio this morning, talking about the protests over the…

  • Waterlogged | Foff

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    It’s been a difficult few weeks: ‘What are you reading?’ ‘A book about open-water swimming.’ ‘Errr….’ Actually a far more subtle and interesting book than one might think, Waterlog is a homage to John Cheever’s classic short story ‘The Swimmer’, in which the hero decides to swim the 8 miles home from a party using…

  • The Nicene Creed | Constantine and the Beginnings of Power Religion

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    Last April, in the build-up to Easter, I posted a series of thoughts about Jesus and Paul’s journeys toward Jerusalem, and the very different attitudes they took when arrested there. I argued that in Paul’s ‘strategising’ to get himself to Rome, we see the conception of power-Christianity, which perhaps came to full birth with the…