Kester Brewin

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Very interesting article by Nicholas Guyett, around Chris Hedges’ book in the current issue of the London Review of Books. Hedges was a theology student, and is also a very experienced war reporter. Well worth a read, or buy the book here. “According to Hedges, we may be only one cataclysmic event away from a [...]

Last night I went to see Iron and Wine at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, where we were up in the gods rather; the night before I’d been looking for some theatre tickets for a Christmas show, and was shocked at how much it was going to cost to be anywhere near where we might see. [...]

From the 18th October celebrations. All power to this arm. Technorati: Israel | OneVoice | Palestine

I’m in Ireland at the moment, finishing a novel, staying with a great friend who lives on the north coast. Yesterday evening we went surfing – one of those things I enjoy but do not well – and when I got back I’d had another email from a regal friend containing an article from Anne [...]

Two stories on two pages in the Independent today: Gaza’s only Christian bookseller has been murdered by the Righteous Swords of Islam. As if Gaza didn’t have enough problems, these fundamentalists think they’re saving the world by killing off Christians. There are only 3000 or so left. While in the US, ‘church groups across the [...]

“In the first half of my life I fought the Devil. In the second half, I fought God.” Nikos Kazantzakis Angst about sin and purity; worries about traditions and who’s in and who’s out; individuation, desperation to innovate, neophilia. And now something… other. I am exploring. Technorati: Jung | Kazantzakis | Rohr

Manuel de Landa, in his brilliant book A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History writes of the two skeletons that humankind have developed. Our endo(internal)skeleton “made new forms of movement control possible, freeing [us] to conquer every available niche.” Later, around 8000 years ago, we then developed the urban exo(external)skeleton, whereby “bricks of sun-dried clay became [...]

As I have mentioned here before, I have recently written an article about Facebook (and other social networks) for Third Way. I sent a copy of it to a simian friend of mine based in the US – who I naturally keep up with mostly via the internet – and her response to a passage [...]