Kester Brewin

Tag: Pirates

  • Pirating the Pirates: What Were Women Doing on Ships?

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    The reading I’ve been doing on piracy throws up an interesting question: where are the women? The literature and the culture around piracy is very very male, so did women have a place at all? The answer is that they did, although it is not clear the extent to which women did turn pirate. The…

  • “Now I am become death…” | The Jolly Roger

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    The work on piracy continues apace. One of the things I’ve been thinking about is the pirate emblem ‘The Jolly Roger.’ This skull and crossed bones, or swords, was hoisted by pirates as they approached vessels they were about to attack, as a sort of early warning / threat system. Crews who had turned mutinously…

  • The Pirates’ Gospel

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    Thought it would be good to catch people up a little on what I’ve been working on the last couple of weeks. As you’ll know if you’ve read here for any time, one of my areas of interest is around pirates and piracy. I posted a series entitled ‘A Plea for Christian Piracy’ some time…

  • What I’m Working On…

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    Just taking a break from being in the Welsh hills with a school group and thought I’d write a quick post… With Other now out in the US and having been at Wild Goose and met a bunch of new people, I’ve been asked a fair bit ‘what are you working on now?’ Life is…

  • Wild Goose Talk – Audio Download

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    Apologies for dodgy sound quality – just put my phone to record by the PA, but the audio of my talk at Wild Goose is available here: The feedback from Wild Goose has been incredibly positive. Well done to all those who put it together – it deserves to have a really positive impact on…

  • Wild Goose | US Edition of Other

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    I got back from Wild Goose early yesterday morning and had to travel immediately to work to teach. So just about emerging from a jet-lagged coma and appreciating what a good time, and a good thing, Wild Goose was. The dream of having an ‘American Greenbelt’ seemed – to talk to lots of US people…