Kester Brewin

Religion as Illusion [ 1 ] |  Religion as Illusion [ 2 ] I watched The Prestige again last night, and was even more impressed by it second time around – it really is a magnificent film, and, for me, more interesting than Nolan’s next work Inception. Some of the reaction to this mini-series of [...]

Religion as Illusion [ 1 ] In yesterday’s post I suggested that one of the problems within Christianity is that people believe too much. What people tend to do is suspend their rational belief in the natural, physical world for a few hours and enter into a place where they apparently believe in the supernatural [...]

Religion as Illusion [2] Pete Rollins posted something on ethics over on his blog yesterday, in which he made argued that churches should not be ‘teaching’ ethics, and nor should people be trying ‘hold’ ethical principles: So what is the alternative to attempting to hold ethical principles? The answer is creating a space of grace [...]

As copies of Mutiny! get around and are being read, people have been getting in touch highlighting some typos etc.. I have mixed feelings about this… obviously I aimed to put out a ‘perfect’ manuscript, but at the same time, was aware that with the model I was using I didn’t have the services of [...]

One of the issues that people have immediately jumped on when I have told them I’m writing about piracy is the thorny issue of pirated music. I know quite a few people who make a living from recording music, and clearly this is a big issue for them because it gets to the heart of [...]

“Cancer takes so much, it’s ruthless, however there are some things it can’t touch. It can’t take how you feel about someone; it can’t steal what has already been written…” Seems that copies of Mutiny! are arriving and people are getting stuck in, which is brilliant. Can’t wait to hear how people have found it…though, [...]

Through a good friend Barry Taylor I started reading some stuff on Simon Critchley, and was struck by this interview over at Full Stop, in which he talks about the roots of philosophy: Philosophy begins with a death, but it doesn’t just begin with a death — it begins with a political execution. He is [...]

As Mutiny! is being self-published, there’s no ‘big machine’ behind it to be able to easily distribute lots of gratis copies for reviewers…sorry! However, I obviously want people to be able to get hold of the book if they are going to help publicise it. So, for a limited time, I’ve arranged for reviewers to [...]

The time for Mutiny has finally come! I was going to wait until everything had worked itself through various systems and things were sorted on Amazon and iBookstore etc, but in the end I thought sod it – just let the thing run free now… especially as Lulu are offering a really nice site-wide discount [...]

With the news that the CofE has come out (h-hmmm) and said that it is gravely concerned about the effect of gay marriage on the Church and its relation to the state, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at some history… A good friend, when hearing about what I was writing, [...]