Kester Brewin

Off tomorrow to Ventura, CA, for the Solition Sessions. Big thanks to the generous guys there for offering to fly me over. What with being off there and other recent trips, it’s felt like a bit of a busy, travelling summer. But it was great to catch up properly with Nic the other night. One [...]

Perhaps I’m being professionally defensive here, but having looked at RateMyTeachers.co.uk I was left wondering whether this was actually a project that had any use. Part of the beauty of the ‘ratings’ section of sites like Amazon and Flickr is that they actually allow you to make decisions – which seller is reliable, which photos [...]

Ascension Day “He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven” Words full of vectors. Above and below. Travelling on this great y-axis. Cutting into the earth, and rising above it. And disappearing from sight. We’ve got too Cartesian in our theology And want to co-ordinate To assign vectors and fix positions “He was here!” [...]

“Collective sketching of the collective consciousness.” Via Wired. Emergence-y question: will the sketches get better and better with time, or will they need chasing down from local peaks to properly improve? Technorati Tags: Art, cartoons, Complexity, Emergence, Swarm, Technology

If you’ve read The Complex Christ, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Steven Johnson’s book ‘Emergence – the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software‘. Turns out he has a blog, plus a new book launching in London this autumn. The blog is well worth visiting if you’re interested in emergence and [...]

On Meaning [1]  | On Meaning [2] In the previous two posts I have been trying to set out why I still hold to a position that absolute truth exists. The discussion began as a meditation on meaning and language, and I’ve tried to make the connection between these and truth. I ended the last [...]

It’s been a knackering week, so this is going to be even more lacking ‘meaning’ than it’s going to anyway, but here we go with part two. In response to the previous post ‘on meaning’, Nic wrote: [I want to react against] some sort of pre-ordained meaning, rules of engagement or ‘isness’- a divine database [...]

Looking forward to spending this Saturday discussing leadership issues at the first Blah… learning day, with Anna Draper, Jonny Baker and Paul Roberts. I’ll be sharing some thoughts first published here. Book [ here ] Technorati Tags: Emerging Church, Ministry, Theology, Westminster

A few weeks ago Nic and Jonathan and I had one of our occasional drinks at the Crown and Greyhound and ended up in a very politely heated debate on ‘meaning’, which we are planning to jointly thrash out here and over at Haunted Geographies (though not sure exactly when he’ll be posting). It had [...]

There has been some debate stirred over the discovery/translation of ‘The Gospel of Judas‘. For those of you who haven’t read The Complex Christ (and why not?! Buy it here, now!), I wanted to outline some of my thoughts on Judas from the book. We are often encouraged to meditate on characters from Scripture. To [...]