Kester Brewin

Storyquest is the national festival of story-telling and the spoken word, and runs for the whole of November. Alongside many keynote events, the organizers – the Prince of Wales’ Foundation for Children & the Arts – are simply encouraging families to ‘fill their homes with stories, capturing the moment when a story gets inside you [...]

I’m really pleased to see the Wikiklesia book published in physical form. Go get your copy here and support Not For Sale as you do. I contributed a chapter on the move between text, audio and video, which seems to have gone down well. Wikiklesia is one of those great publishing projects you are happy [...]

Just out is this set of three books of reflections, to which I contributed 8 or 9 pieces. Nice thoughts for the journey to pop in and out of. Here’s one I submitted for book titled ‘Loss‘ Fruit I want to change the fruits of my labours. When someone says ‘Apple’, I shouldn’t want sleek [...]

I can think of no better way to stretch my legs out over the Atlantic for 11 hours than flying with Pete. Like a couple of great insomniacs, we fell to talking some theology, which knocked out the 5 rows around us in no time. I think BA might actually contract us for overnight flights, [...]

I am really pleased to have been able to contribute a chapter to a great new book: ‘Voices from the Virtual World’. It’s been put together under the umbrella of ‘Wikiklesia’, which is a collaborative publishing project. "Voices of the Virtual World explores the growing influence of technology on the global Christian church. In this [...]

So, Signs of Emergence finally hits the shops on 1st July… I’m really excited about the book coming out in the US and Canada, especially as so many of the ideas within it have sprung from great work done over there. To all you people who’ve been queuing up for days outside stores to get [...]

I went to hear Dave Eggers in conversation with Valentino Achak Deng at the ICA this evening. It was wonderful, moving and sad and funny. Deng was one of the Lost Boys in Sudan. After his town was pillaged by militias, he got separated from his family and joined 4000 or so other young boys [...]

I’ve just returned from seeing Into Great Silence – a documentary by Philip Gröning about the Grande Chartreuse monastery, one of the most aescetic in the world. I am a huge documentary fan, and this is a truly wonderful film. The mix of HD digital and Super 8 footage, the all-natural light, with no crew [...]

So here’s the first proper post of the Signs blog. The book itself comes out in July, but why wait that long – I’m hoping we’ll be able to engage in some discussion way before then. (If you really can’t, you can order a copy of the UK version or download a sample chapter Having [...]

I’m off towards Greenbelt tomorrow, via a stop with some friends in Devon, so probably won’t be blogging. Before I go, I promised to post a review of Spencer Burke and Barry Taylor’s book ‘A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity‘. First, an apparent paradox in the book, which I think helps unlock its position quite well. [...]