Kester Brewin

We’ve been having school examinations the past week. I had to mark a bunch of scripts (the kids are 11/12 years old) of an RS paper on Christianity. Some of the answers were just priceless:   In a series of questions on parts of a church – what is an altar, what is a pulpit… [...]

Mary Douglas, whose work ‘Purity and Danger’ I am heavily indebted to for the ‘dirty’ bits of Signs of Emergence, has died. Obituary here. "In 1966, Douglas published her most celebrated work, Purity and Danger: an Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. This book is best remembered for its stylish demonstration of the ways [...]

A few of us have been reading Marilynne Robinson’s wonderful novel Gilead recently. I can’t recommend it highly enough. One episode jumped out at me last night. The trickster, the Prodigal perhaps, of the novel is debating faith with the protagonist, an old preacher, when he asks: ‘Do you ever wonder why American Christianity always [...]

In news rather like that surrounding the furore over Andreas Serrano’s ‘Piss Christ‘, the BBC are reporting ‘outrage’ over a 6 foot chocolate Jesus being displayed in a gallery in Manhattan. The piece, entitled ‘My Sweet Lord’ is by the artist Cosimo Cavallaro has drawn huge fire from the Catholic League, who described the piece [...]

This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen for ages. Real comic strips from way back. Really funny.

Lego have quite rightly jumped on the Emerging bandwagon, and released this great set of ‘Emerging Church Heroes’ figures. Alan Hirsch Jonny Baker TSK Si Johnston Pete Rollins Mobsby Steve Collins Nic Greg Russinger Collect them all and get a free darkened room to keep them in (Thanks Jordon for the link)

A unique chance to catch Hirst’s ‘New Religion’ works for free, and in the amazing setting of the church of All Hallows on the Wall. “There are four important things in life: religion, love, art and science. People tend to think of religion and science as two very separate things, one cold and clinical, the [...]

Some photos of Michael Cross’ installation at Dilston Grove – a disused shell of a church on the edge of Southwark Park. The main body of the church has been filled with a tank of water. As you step out over it, steps appear from the water. They are meant to disappear behind you, leaving [...]

No doubt about it, Sharp are clever people. They’ve developed an LCD screen that shows 3 different images, depending on your viewpoint. As Far East Gizmos put it, “these displays have allowed Sharp to once again create new demand and contribute to the creation of new lifestyles.” Call me a grouch, but is part of [...]

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