Kester Brewin

Tag: Leadership

  • New Wine… Old Wineskins? | Steering Your Church to a New Place [1]

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    Had a good time at my first visit to New Wine yesterday. I’d been asked to go and speak about the book, which I duly did, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Speaking at Greenbelt you’re pretty much already in a place where people are critiquing the forms and structures of faith, so it was very interesting…

  • “Money Having No Impact on Youth Crime” | “MPs Reject Need For Father in IVF”

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    Two pieces followed one-another on the radio this morning: MPs voted last night to remove the clause that required IVF clinics to consider the need for a child to have a father and a mother – essentially opening the way for women to have the treatment without any father-figure being present in the prospective child’s…

  • So What’s Worse…?

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    Your one-time minister saying some outrageous things about 9/11, or being married to a man who had his cigar smoked in the Oval Office? I don’t get it – surely Bill should be the persona non grata on the campaign trail? Technorati: Clinton | Obama

  • Clinton Defaults to Conflict: This is Washington, not Hollywood

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    "One of the things that makes Mrs Clinton so psychologically fascinating is her tendency to portray everthing in terms of conflict and confrontation. And one of the characteristics that makes her so interesting politically is that she is a much better candidate when things are going badly than when they are going well." From BBC…

  • New MA at Kings

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    Kings College have a new MA which they wondered if I’d be happy to flag up, which I am. It’s in ‘Politics, Theology and Faith-Based Organisations’, and you can read more about it in the doc attached below.

  • Should British Kids Salute the Flag? | Identity | Symbols

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    A recent government report has proposed that teenagers should make an oath of allegiance to ‘Queen and Country’, in order to give them a ‘sense of belonging.’ I’m aware that something similar exists in the US education system, though the only reason I’m aware of it is by it’s bitter-sweet use in movies to suggest…