Kester Brewin

Whenever a gift is given, an invisible cargo is exchanged with it, loaded with semi-conscious messages about power-relations between giver and receiver. Offering an expensive gift to someone can be a power-play: I am rich enough to give you this. Even letting someone out into traffic can carry the same message: I am more gracious [...]

I’ve been really enjoying Pete Rollins’ parables recently – if you didn’t catch his Twitter parable experiment then you should follow him and catch up, or grab a copy of The Orthodox Heretic.
In the same mode, this is a parable I’ve been working on based on the familiar story of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
The Emperor’s [...]

One of the things I like about the web is that one can drop a pebble into it… and the ripples appear elsewhere.
For those (few, I know) who may have followed here but not elsewhere, there has been quite a lot of reaction to the posts on piracy, mostly ignited by Richard Sudworth’s repost to [...]

My good friend Pete has posted on his blog today that I’ve won the parable competition that he and Paraclete Publishing ran over the past couple of months. It’s a real honour to have been chosen among so many great entries.
As Pete and I are friends, I did just want to point out that I [...]

Really looking forward to being at Greenbelt again this coming weekend. The programme – from the talks to the music to the comedy to the campaigning is as strong as ever and, I feel, has a nice edge to it too. (Full talks listings here)
For those who are going to be there, I’m going to [...]