Kester Brewin

A little dated now, but still a great video from Knife Party, with polemic text by Barry Mcnamara, outlining one perspective on American militarism. With Gordon Brown giving evidence at the Iraq inquiry today, it seemed resonant, especially the astonishing statistic that the US has been at war with someone around the world at all [...]

Craft:

Kraft:

Enough said.

Occasionally two things from the news catch your ear and resonate together. Today it was the news that Obama has cancelled Nasa’s new moon programme. And [ht Barry Taylor] that Gil Scott-Heron is back with a new album.
The connection? I’ve always loved Scott-Heron’s early, hard-hitting social commentaries. And the lyrics of ‘Whitey on the Moon’ [...]

Says it all. The $100m ‘loan’ from the World Bank to Haiti could be paid off like that by a fraction of the banking bonuses paid out on top of enormous salaries. Sickening.

Peter Brooke’s cartoon in The Times today:

I’d amend one thing, to be honest. The child in the blue shorts is most likely dead.

Tomorrow (10th) is ‘International Human Rights Day,’ commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN. Article 1 famously reads:
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
Incarnation is about [...]

Lovely cartoon in The Independent today summed up the idiocy of the Environment Agency’s pleas that they’d done enough by building flood defenses based on 100-year worst flood data. It’s a new world. The old records may as well be ripped up.

The people who brought you the ‘there’s probably no God, so just relax and get on with life’ have created a new campaign aimed at parents. They want to encourage parents to give their children freedom of choice. The campaign urges parents not to label children with their beliefs.
The key problem here is, of course, [...]

It’s pretty much a year to the day since I began writing my new book, and I now that the contracts are all exchanged I thought it was time to pop the lid off and start getting the word out there.
Don’t go rushing to Amazon just yet – it’ll be on shelves in July next [...]

The 2nd Apple event is happening this coming Tuesday. You really should be there.
Apple is a Vaux production, a short series of conversations focused specifically on the interplay between theology and technology. This month we are really excited to have Alistair Duncan – an architect from IBM and member of The Garden in Brighton – [...]