Kester Brewin

Article in Wired, here. “If Friday’s boat from St. Mary was cancelled, there might be six people in the village that needed to know. Armstrong found consistently they would all have that information within hours, even without a formal distribution system, and few uninterested people would be burdened with the knowledge.” Technorati Tags: Technology

A couple of recent posts I’ve read to link together: In an excellent post here Will Samson explores the failings of the religious right in US politics. “Beyond the public moral failures, however I believe that 2006 will be the beginning of significant political failures for the religious right. I believe we will begin to [...]

Article in Wired on an emerging software that combines hunches with mutations to take anything, from photo manipulation to postman route planning in new directions that have a individual touch. “Our hunches tend to be repetitive and predictable, while mutation can take us in novel directions” The parallels with new EC programmes are obvious. Keep [...]

I was disappointed to read on Jonny’s blog that Graham Cray wanted to down-play the significance of alt.worship and emerging churches in the future of the church. And I’m glad Jonny attempted to correct him. Just a couple of observations. According to Jonny’s notes, Graham Cray said: “Mission vision not church angst. Emerging churches good [...]

Just been listening to a very interesting report on the BBC about The Power Commission’s report into British democracy which has been published today. The parallels with Alan Jamieson’s work on Churchless Faith were astounding and, as I mentioned in my book, the church really does have an amazing opportunity to model a mode of [...]

Been doing a bit of work for Greenbelt, writing invites for speakers etc. One of the people I’ve been in contact with is Alain de Botton, who’s last book Status Anxiety I quoted in the book. He has a new book forthcoming, called The Architecture of Happiness. The blurb: What makes a house beautiful? Is [...]

During a Skype with Jon: Would you be able to write something on the ‘communal knowing idea’ that knowing is not simply contained within individuals, but has an important interpersonal dimension and also on the different natures of knowing “muscial, linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily, kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal” I think it needs expanding. And articulating, but I [...]

Links: Neophilia [1]  |  Neophilia [2]  |  Neophilia [3]  |  Neophilia [4] Anyone been finding blogging more difficult than it used to be? Lost the novelty a bit, and now what seemed so easy and freeing is more of a chore at times? Lots of people I’ve read seem to have done recently… Welcome to [...]

Links: Neophilia [1] |  Neophilia [2] |  Neophilia [3] Over the last few posts I’ve been proposing that the Emerging Church needs to be aware of the dangers of ‘Neophilia’ – being in love with newness for newness’ sake. Neophilia is a revolutionary mode. It tries to effect quick change, but fails to settle on [...]

In the last post I tried to argue, using Booker’s excellent book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties‘ that we must avoid sensationalism. That we must avoid the projected image, the sensational, which in the age of screens and billboards is a difficult thing to do. Booker warns that [...]