Kester Brewin

Tag: Dirt

  • Religion: Ignore God, It’s About The Sacred

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    This month’s Prospect carries an excellent short essay outlining some arguments against Hitchens, Dawkins et al: ‘the evangelical atheists, shouting from their pulpits’. The author, Roger Scruton, is surprised by ‘the extent to which religion is caricatured by its current opponents, who see it as nothing more than a system of unfounded beliefs about the…

  • Why I’m Loving Facebook | Dirty Networks

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    Having seen Ben and some others resign themselves to Facebook, I asked them why I should bother… do I really want another digital dimension to have to check/keep up? And with being a teacher, all social networking sites are slightly fraught with potential pitfalls. (Unlike an ex colleague, who I think is very unwise, I…

  • Stones

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    If we could all just stop throwing stones, and stoop, knees bent and write in the dust, we’d see that the dust was once stone – grand, and hard, and proud, and tough – now ground and dissolved in grace and tears. So… how much better to be a grain of dirt on that kind…

  • Dirty Dog | Allergies Rise with Cleanliness

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    So I’m having a drink the other night with this guy who works at the government’s disease control centre – he specialises in TB and bio-terrorism threats – and he says "You want to have healthy kids? The best thing you can do is buy them a dog." Apparently they bring such a lot of…

  • Is The Emerging Church Hopelessly Utopian? [3]

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    Hopelessly Utopian [1] Hopelessly Utopian [2] Thanks for the comments on the above posts. In response to Cheryl and Becky, yes, of course every church movement has felt ‘no one else has ever felt this way before’. And it’s actually important to recognise that, as Gray does in Black Mass, suggesting that ‘the utopian instinct…

  • 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…