Kester Brewin

Tag: Gift

  • Keep Your Relationship Together: Remain in the Gift

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    My brother came back from visiting two friends (not pictured 😉 in France the other day. They had sold up, moved over there with their kids and bought a tiny run down farm in the countryside. They live on/off it at pretty subsistence level with a few cattle to fatten and growing their own veg.…

  • 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…

  • Spring | The Compost Christ Flowers Again | SymbolLife™

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    Spent a glorious sunny Spring day on the allotment today. Jonny recently posted a photo celebrating the great weather we’ve had (on and off) recently. And today was another stunner. Having oh-so-mocked, it’s good to see Grace have an allotment now too… In fact there are record waiting lists at most plots across London. I’m…

  • Comic Relief | It’s [not] All For Charity

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    Some time ago I wrote a piece on Art vs Justice, which threw about some arguments as to whether art is ethical when people are still dying of hunger. More recently some discussion around that issue came up over on Jonny’s blog as to whether art is ‘vital’ in itself or not. Tonight my niece…

  • Welcome to the World…

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    Iris Frankie Brewin, born 27th Feb. 7lb 8oz. At home. All well. Could be quiet around this blog. It sure isn’t at home 😉

  • Middle Class, White Reactionaries | Theatre and the Emerging Church

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    There was a superb interview with Edward Albee tonight on the radio which is well worth a download (for this week at least). Superb not for fluid questioning and erudite follow ups, but for genuine engagement. A couple of weeks ago I gave a school assembly on ‘how to write a book’ (small pond, education,…