Kester Brewin

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  • Vaux Is Like a Box Of Chocolates…

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    Rather surprised to see, as I opened a bar of chocolate from Lundy Island – a present from my mum, that Vaux had branched out into confectionary. With Grace were doing Donuts, Ikon just candy-floss, perhaps I shouldn’t have been. Technorati: Chocolate | Grace | Ikon | Lundy | Vaux

  • Some Ideas for Commemorating 9/11

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    It’s that time of year again, so how might we begin to find a rhythm for commemorating 9/11 and/or the July London bombings? Perhaps, in our local communities, we could build huge bonfires, and all gather round them, faces glowing in the heat. We could make effigies of Bin Laden, or Mohammed Siddique Khan, and…

  • Signs of Life in the Churches

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    As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been really enjoying Roger Deakin’s meditation on trees ‘Wildwood‘. In one passage on ‘The Sacred Groves of Devon’, Deakin goes in search of the ‘Green Man‘ – the woodland spirit of rebirth often seen carved into beams in old churches – in various villages. He notes the…

  • Is The Emerging Church Hopelessly Utopian? [3]

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    Hopelessly Utopian [1] Hopelessly Utopian [2] Thanks for the comments on the above posts. In response to Cheryl and Becky, yes, of course every church movement has felt ‘no one else has ever felt this way before’. And it’s actually important to recognise that, as Gray does in Black Mass, suggesting that ‘the utopian instinct…

  • Is The Emerging Church Hopelessly Utopian? [2]

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    In the previous post, I outlined John Gray’s recent conclusion that, post-Iraq (and thus, essentially, post Neo-con), post-Communism, post-Marxism, post-Nazism, the grand utopian ideas of the 20th Century had proved themselves failures, and that we should all give up on grand political visions. I paralleled that with some of the disenchantment I’ve seen expressed about…

  • Salvaged Faith ¦ Baptized in Arial Black ¦ RS Exam Bloomers

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    We’ve been having school examinations the past week. I had to mark a bunch of scripts (the kids are 11/12 years old) of an RS paper on Christianity. Some of the answers were just priceless:   In a series of questions on parts of a church – what is an altar, what is a pulpit……