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June 27, 2016
God is Not…
One of the most provocative, incendiary and visually astute photographers around at the moment happens to be from my hometown. Gavin Millar’s portraits are dark, dramatic and incisive, while his personal portfolio offers a feast of hyper-real images that explore the themes of desire, the uncanny and the surreal in an often playful and self-knowing way. Images that bring to mind the work of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Helmut Newton.
A few years ago Gavin and I became friends, and have since spent many long nights discussing the intersection where philosophy, religion, and art meet.
Last time I was home Gavin asked me to join him for a little road trip that would end up in a project binding these three together. The result is a series of photo’s around churches in Belfast woven together with Nietzsche’s parable of God’s death.
Click here to see the pictures on Gavin’s site
June 21, 2016
Getting High, LA, CA
Published to great acclaim in April, GETTING HIGH is the story of the human yearning for transcendence, as told through the prism of the remarkable events of the 1960s.
LSD, the birth of the charismatic movement, the Apollo missions – in so many ways, across so many levels of society, we lifted away. But what was fuelling this desire for flight?
Woven into this searing narrative is the story of Brewin’s own journey through these different technologies of lift, elevating GETTING HIGH beyond theory into a deeply personal account of his voyage from orthodox belief into Radical Theology.
This will be a unique opportunity to hear Kester in conversation with Peter Rollins, talking about the roots of their work and the paths that brought them to it.
Get your ticket here
June 16, 2016
Building on Fire, Los Angeles, CA
A common concern people have when first encountering my work relates to how we might rebuild our lives and communities after the fires of doubt, self-critique and complexity have burned bright. In short, what happens after we’ve set light to some of the negative parts of our religious past?
In this intimate all-day event we’ll explore how the real challenge actually lies in keeping that white-hot fire lit; building our lives around it, within it, and on top of it. During the sessions we’ll explore a truly liberating understanding of faith that keeps this purifying fire alive. A faith that has the power to impact our individual lives, our relationships, our communities and even our country.
Whether you’re interested in exploring my work for personal reasons, because you’re trying to foster healthy church life, or want to learn how to better impact your community; these sessions will offer some guidance.
Building on Fire, Detroit, MI
A common concern people have when first encountering my work relates to how we might rebuild our lives and communities after the fires of doubt, self-critique and complexity have burned bright. In short, what happens after we’ve set light to some of the negative parts of our religious past?
In this intimate all-day event we’ll explore how the real challenge actually lies in keeping that white-hot fire lit; building our lives around it, within it, and on top of it. During the sessions we’ll explore a truly liberating understanding of faith that keeps this purifying fire alive. A faith that has the power to impact our individual lives, our relationships, our communities and even our country.
Whether you’re interested in exploring my work for personal reasons, because you’re trying to foster healthy church life, or want to learn how to better impact your community; these sessions will offer some guidance.
Building on Fire, Utrecht, Holland
A common concern people have when first encountering my work relates to how we might rebuild our lives and communities after the fires of doubt, self-critique and complexity have burned bright. In short, what happens after we’ve set light to some of the negative parts of our religious past?
In this intimate all-day event we’ll explore how the real challenge actually lies in keeping that white-hot fire lit; building our lives around it, within it, and on top of it. During the sessions we’ll explore a truly liberating understanding of faith that keeps this purifying fire alive. A faith that has the power to impact our individual lives, our relationships, our communities and even our country.
Whether you’re interested in exploring my work for personal reasons, because you’re trying to foster healthy church life, or want to learn how to better impact your community; these sessions will offer some guidance.
Ticket sales coming soon.
June 12, 2016
The Divine Magician ($15)
What if the most diseased element of our religious, political and cultural life could be made to vanish before our very eyes, only to reappear in a fundamentally healthy and liberating form? In The Divine Magician this possibility is precisely what is presented through a subversive reading of Christianity that argues for a faith beyond dogma, doctrine and tradition, a faith that doesn’t uphold a particular religious identity or demand some sectarian allegiance. Instead he employs the structure of a magic trick to offer up an irreligious reading of faith that stands against these very things. Rollins interrogates traditional religious notions from a revolutionary and refreshingly original perspective.
The book is signed and comes with a free, limited edition JTC style Rapture tract written by Peter Rollins with artwork by Laryn Kragt Bakker
June 11, 2016
The Idolatry of God ($15)
In contrast to the usual understanding of the “Good News” as a message offering satisfaction and certainty, Rollins argues for a radical and shattering alternative. He explores how the Good News actually involves embracing the idea that we can’t be whole, that life is difficult, and that we are in the dark. Arguing that God has traditionally been approached as a product that will render us complete, remove our suffering and reveal the answers, he introduces an incendiary approach to faith that invites us to embrace our brokenness, face our unknowing and accept the difficulties of existence. Only then, he argues, can we truly rob death of its sting and enter into the fullness of life.
The book is signed and comes with a free, limited edition JTC style Rapture tract written by Peter Rollins with artwork by Laryn Kragt Bakker
June 10, 2016
Insurrection ($15)
In this incendiary new work, the controversial author and speaker Peter Rollins proclaims that Christian faith is not an otherworldly faith interested in the possibility of life after death but rather is an invitation to discover the reality of life before death. In order to unearth this truth, Rollins prescribes a radical and wholesale critique of contemporary Christianity that he calls pyro-theology. It is only as we submit our spiritual practices, religious rituals, and dogmatic affirmations to the flames of fearless interrogation that we come into contact with the reality that Christianity is in the business of transforming our world rather than offering a way of interpreting or escaping it. Belief in the Resurrection means but one thing: Participation in an Insurrection.
The book is signed and comes with a free, limited edition JTC style Rapture tract written by Peter Rollins with artwork by Laryn Kragt Bakker
June 9, 2016
Building on Fire, Minneapolis, MN
A common concern people have when first encountering my work relates to how we might rebuild our lives and communities after the fires of doubt, self-critique and complexity have burned bright. In short, what happens after we’ve set light to some of the negative parts of our religious past?
In this intimate all-day event we’ll explore how the real challenge actually lies in keeping that white-hot fire lit; building our lives around it, within it, and on top of it. During the sessions we’ll explore a truly liberating understanding of faith that keeps this purifying fire alive. A faith that has the power to impact our individual lives, our relationships, our communities and even our country.
Whether you’re interested in exploring my work for personal reasons, because you’re trying to foster healthy church life, or want to learn how to better impact your community; these sessions will offer some guidance.
The Orthodox Heretic ($15)
In this bold new book Peter Rollins presents a vision of faith that has little regard for the institutions of Christendom or the practices of the actual existing church. Yet his uncompromising critique of religion, while often unsettling, is infused with a deep and abiding love for what it means to genuinely live with a concern for the world. The Orthodox Heretic plants thirty-three explosive parables into the hearts and minds of the reader that are designed to blow apart any dogmatic, religious defences that protect us from encountering the subversive core of Christianity. In so doing this subversive text seeks to expose the reader once more to the life affirming and world-transforming violence of faith. A faith that is not concerned with beliefs about the world, but with a different way of being in the world.
The paperback book is signed and comes with a free, limited edition JTC style Rapture tract written by Peter Rollins with artwork by Laryn Kragt Bakker
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