Kester Brewin

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  • Is The Emerging Church Hopelessly Utopian? [1]

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    In this month’s Prospect, Anthony Dworkin explores the idea of utopias. Utopian ideas have been a disaster in the twentieth century: Nazism, Marxism, Communism… and we can go further back in history to see their failures in both political and religious manifestations. In the 19th Century many utopians tried to create perfect societies in their…

  • UK Floods Are God’s Attempt to Wash Away Homosexuals?

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    You may not have picked up on this Stateside – unless you’ve been trying to follow coverage of Wimbledon – but it’s been raining here in the UK. A lot. Every day for weeks. There have been floods, and some people have died. In one tragic incident a man got his foot stuck in a…

  • Signs Emerges… | Book Launch

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    So, Signs of Emergence finally hits the shops on 1st July… I’m really excited about the book coming out in the US and Canada, especially as so many of the ideas within it have sprung from great work done over there. To all you people who’ve been queuing up for days outside stores to get…

  • 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…

  • We ALL Like Paper-clip Thieving, Staple Snatching Sheep Have Gone Astray

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    According to some new research, over two thirds of the population have ‘broken the law at some point’. The law-abiding majority appears to be a myth… Or is ‘borrowing’ from work, whether phone calls or stationary, a victimless crime, and part of the payback we expect from the Faustian pact we make with companies in…

  • Arbuckle: Refounding | Common Roots of All Religions | Why Do We Always Screw It Up?

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    Thanks to Mark for a great post around Gerald Arbuckles “From Chaos to Mission – Refounding Religious Life Formation“. He includes this diagram, which prodded me to think not only about how renewal occurs within religion, but more generally about how religions are founded. Mark notes: “Arbuckle talks about three stages; 1) Initial unease, the…