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On this month's show, I'll be chatting to Kester Bruin about pirates, Taz and the end of the Emerging Church. So why don't you pop the kettle on and settle down for another 45 minutes or so

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On this month's Nomad podcast, I'm speaking to one of the leading voices in the UK Emerging Church

Conversation, Kester Bruin. Kester is the author of the acclaimed the Complex Christ and more

recently, Other. Kester, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Great to be on.

Could you begin by just telling us a little bit about yourself and what led you into the world of the emerging church?

Well, I'm a teacher. I teach mathematics at a secondary school in South East London.

I've been teaching for about 10 years and got two children.

And a while ago, I was at one of the, well, many years ago now,

I was at a very, very large church in South London,

lots of very successful people, you know,

all turning up 600 of us every Sunday evening

for a great kind of shindig of guitar-led worship and so on.

And I looked around and saw all these people who were writers and

filmmakers and dancers and all the rest of it. And thought, well, why are these gifts not

being represented in the worship that we're doing? You know, it seems extraordinary that all

these talented people and it boils down to preaching and playing an acoustic

guitar. So I asked the vicar about it with a couple of people. He was actually very, very good.

He said, or maybe once every six months we could do something. But that wasn't really

satisfactory. So myself and a friend and a few others set up what we called Vox, with no great spiritual reason other than it

was in Vauxhall in London, took over in the evenings once a month, a huge Victorian barn of a church

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