Kester Brewin

Oh dear. The inevitable has happened: someone’s come up with a way for us to use our mobiles when on the plane. “I’M ON THE PLANE” Next up: ‘mobile free areas’ on planes, and stickers telling people to keep their voices down. I think it’s sad, to be honest. Planes were one of those places [...]

When someone famous dies, can anyone tell me where it is that tributes actually pour in to? I’ve always wondered.

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.

Thanks to every0ne who pointed out the blog ‘wasn’t working’ over the last couple of days… Guess I shouldn’t fiddle with the design in future Abnormal service now resumed.

It wasn’t so much thatthe stones couldn’t hold him.More that they refused to. All had been silent, struck dumb by deathly silence, but"All down here is petrified but him" they cried out,as he said they would."He could no more be made fossil relic by us thanthe sun that melts and sublimates" Don’t think it was [...]

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Modern/postmodern, epistemologyand philosophy,arguments about text,all distant hazes in the cortexas this one true sensationbecomes all reality: the pain of metal against boneand blood and bitter wine;hung in agonizing mezzanine:Father above, who sentand created earth below who received,both now turning in rejection,aiming their crude technologies.Pig iron and sacrifice. There is blood.I am finished.

Another excellent programme from BBC’s In Our Time, which this week looks at Soren Kierkegaard. It’s a really good introduction to his thinking, and has some wonderful sections around the idea of subverting those who consider themselves to ‘be’ Christians, and how Kierkegaard considered this to be impossible… There’s also an honest confession from a [...]

A piece on the BBC news caught my ear yesterday. To the disgust of Tim Berners-Lee British Telecom, Virgin and my ISP Talk Talk have all said that they are going to start using Phorm in the near future. Phorm tracks your internet use, and harvests data to create a profile which these companies will [...]

The Nation Newspaper have named him top black icon. So was he or wasn’t he? Here.