Kester Brewin

Two pieces followed one-another on the radio this morning:

MPs voted last night to remove the clause that required IVF clinics to consider the need for a child to have a father and a mother – essentially opening the way for women to have the treatment without any father-figure being present in the prospective child’s life.

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Technorati: Clinton | Obama

"One of the things that makes Mrs Clinton so psychologically fascinating is her tendency to portray everthing in terms of conflict and confrontation. And one of the characteristics that makes her so interesting politically is that she is a much better candidate when things are going badly than when they are going well." From BBC [...]

Kings College have a new MA which they wondered if I’d be happy to flag up, which I am.

It’s in ‘Politics, Theology and Faith-Based Organisations’, and you can read more about it in the doc attached below.

Ben has an excellent and honest post here outlining his doubts about the ‘missional entrepreneur’ that is in popular parlance.

I’ve posted a comment outlining some thoughts on how the role of the artist might help us imagine this in a new way.

The Times reports today that "The Vatican has described the Protestant and Orthodox faiths as “not proper Churches” in a document issued with the full authority of the Pope."
"The Orthodox church suffers from a wound because it does not recognise the primacy of the Pope. The wound is even more profound in Protestant denominations, [...]

Hopelessly Utopian [1]
Hopelessly Utopian [2]
Thanks for the comments on the above posts. In response to Cheryl and Becky, yes, of course every church movement has felt ‘no one else has ever felt this way before’. And it’s actually important to recognise that, as Gray does in Black Mass, suggesting that ‘the utopian instinct in modern [...]