Kester Brewin

Tag: Stages of Faith

  • Are We Just Neophiliacs? [1]

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    New Year, new blog series on… Newness. Actually, I’ve been meaning to write something for some time around the book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties’ that Christopher Booker (the first editor of Private Eye) wrote back in the late 60’s. The Amazon synopsis for ‘The Neophiliacs’ is rather…

  • Technology: Fight the Power

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    I’ve been musing while away. Wondering: what is technology? It struck me as we tanked along in a car about to seize up that it was nssothing more than raw creation re-worked by human hands. Forged to help us. Rock, sand and timber reined in wild like horses and bridled under our control. In other…

  • Television: The Drug of the Nation?

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    Strange how a disparate thoughts suddenly meld into something new. I was mulling over what was on TV. Not now, or then, but generally. It all seems to be houses and food. And also mulling on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which has popped up around the Bloge now and again. He identifies a pyramid of…

  • Beyond Self Actualization

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    In a great post [ here ] Will Samson describes how the dominant psychological metaphor for our culture, as set out in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, needs pushing further. Maslow’s system is very much based around the needs of the individual, and Will has done some thinking about how, once the individual ‘self’ is actualized,…

  • Blah… Blah Blah

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    Had a great few days away, and things seemed to go well at Blah… in Manchester last night. The Nexus space that is getting going there seems excellent. For anyone who is interested, the (very sketchy) notes I spoke from I’ve uploaded as a PDF here: I’d actually mentioned something about exoskeletons in the brief…

  • Solid | Liquid | Gas – Baumann and Ecclesiastic Phase Change

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    This morning I was sent an article to look over, which contained reference to Baumann’s work on ‘liquid modernity’, taken up by Pete Ward in his book ‘Liquid Church’. It set me thinking again, as I had done when discussing Pete’s thesis at a very early Blah…, about how much Baumann knew about the science…