Simon Barrow
My blogs
- Only Just Offside...
- NewFrontEars
- Exploring Anabaptism in Scotland
- FaithInSociety
- Just Festival News
Blogs I follow
- A Room Of My Own
- Dark Rock Diaries
- Go in peace, not to pieces
- Jim Brown's Journal
- Just Festival News
- Marginal Musings
- News from Burma Assist
- On Not Being a Sausage
- Rector's Ramblings
- The Poverty Truth Community
- To September And Beyond
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Director of a think-tank |
| Location | Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | A writer, commentator, theologian and educator, I am co-director of Ekklesia, the think-tank and news service concerned with religion and public life from a radical, post-Christendom perspective. I also work as a trainer, facilitator and consultant with church and community initiatives, as well as continuing to publish for a wide variety of audiences - from general to academic. Football and music are my balancing passions. From 1996-2005 I worked for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI), the official ecumenical body. |
| Interests | Theology, politics, philosophy, music, art, vegetarian food, satire, football, dodgy TV, bookshops |
| Favorite Movies | Matewan, Mapantsula, Momento, The Motorcycle Diaries, Life of Brian, Au Revoir Les Enfants, The Mirror, Under Fire, A Z and Two Noughts, Annie Hall, Kes, Crimes and Misdemeanours, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Three Colours Red, As Good As It Gets |
| Favorite Music | Tippett, Messiaen, Ravel, Birtwistle, Handel, Webern, Shostakovitch, Joanna Macgregor, Miles Davis, Bill Frisell, Boulez, Allan Holdsworth, Deirdre Cartwright, Django Bates, Earthworks, George Crumb, Yes, The Smiths, Suzanne Vega, Frank Zappa, Bach, Porcupine Tree, Ozric Tentacles, Frank Martin, John Zorn, The Shout, Poulenc, Bang on a Can, Sound Circus, Hendrix, Coltrane, Goldie, Debussy, Godspeed You Black Emperor |
| Favorite Books | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Simone Weil, John Caputo, John Howard Yoder, Grace Jantzen, David Jenkins, Richard Kearney, Dorothee Soelle, Nicholas Lash, Sarah Coakley, Gustavo Gutierrez, James Alison, Ruth Page, Rowan Williams, (and that's just the theology). |
Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?
No idea. But a banana peel would be preferable, because if it crashes there'd still be scraps of food on the inside for the survivors... rather than just a stale smell.