Kester Brewin

Tag: Quotations

  • Is The Need to Create the Same as the Need to Save?

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    So asks Damnflanderz with his usual perception, responding to the post on Grizzly Man. Thoughts? I’d say there’s some truth. But perhaps the need to create is the need to be saved? Do we create to sanctify, or create to be sanctified? Or is sanctification not part of it? “Where there is no gift, there…

  • Dead Dick

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    This short sermon clip from Dick Lucas, vicar of St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, just has to be listened to to be believed; had me in stitches and disbelief in equal measure. As Ian said, if he’d made this cock-up, he’d have to leave the job! (For those aware of the high standing of this most respected…

  • What Would You Do With £4,500,000,000?

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    That’s the value of the property portfolio of Church of England plc – the Church Commissioners. I’m on an electoral roll… Am I a stakeholder? Can I pursuade the board to do certain things with the cash? I hate to ask, but WWJD? Fine time to pay tribute to Tony Banks MP – a true…

  • Winning the War?

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    “I declare that World War III is now being waged by short-haired robots whose deliberate aim is to destroy the complex web of free wild life by the imposition of mechanical order.” Timothy Leary in his Manifesto, written on escaping from prison and fleeing to Algeria. I think we’re gradually winning now, Tim. We got…

  • Happy Chris™as Everyone!

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    Have a great few days. Here’s to the Trojan Baby. Caesarean Sections The bitter old man stands at the gates of the earth Waiting Watching
Guarding the only entrance and exit to this citadel planet.
The babies file in and the dead file out
And he watches them
Grimly keeping count. 
He watches He waits
He shivers to shake
The tired…

  • On Riches and Freedom | Faith and Direction

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    “You have riches and freedom here, but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don’t you use them in the search for love?” Lech Walesa. On his first visit outside the Soviet bloc.