Brett Anderson, Author at Brett Fish

Taboo Topics: Cancer [specifically to caregivers of cancer sufferers] – Meet Robert Martin

Introduction In the summer of 2012, my wife and I began a rather interesting journey together. And by “interesting” I mean the same sort of “interesting” that is implied in the ancient apocryphal Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”. You see, my wife was diagnosed in July 2012 with (to use the medical techno-geeky terminology) Type II invasive ductal carcinoma. For those of you less involved in the whole process, this is breast [...]

By brettfish|2013-05-02T04:24:16+02:00May 2nd, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Sex in Marriage – Meet Helene Scalliet

And now a glimpse into the story of Steve and Helene from Helene's side: I will start with the here and now – Steve and I have been married two and a half years and together six years. I feel very blessed and fulfilled by our physical intimacy, and am looking for many years of exploring what that will look like in the various seasons that await us. Knowing where the other comes from with [...]

By brettfish|2013-05-01T05:54:29+02:00May 1st, 2013|challenging thorts, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Sex in Marriage – Meet Steve Graybill

Val and I met Steve during our time at the Simple Way and although we have spent a really short amount of live time together, he has quickly slotted into my folder of 'Favourite people.' Steve is someone who really strives to live out the Good News of Jesus practically and is an absolute inspiration. He jumped at the chance to share his story here and I hope that it will encourage and challenge many [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-29T18:25:35+02:00April 29th, 2013|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Sex in Marriage [Intro]

Wow! So this one should get people clicking on it. It may seem like a bit of an unusual topic to list under 'Taboo Topics' which after all was a series designed with the aim of talking about some of the issues that are very prevalent in the world, but that the church [and often even the outside-of-the-church world] rarely speaks about, or into. But think about it for a second. Preaching about sex in [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-02T16:21:58+02:00April 29th, 2013|challenging thorts, God stuff, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|5 Comments

Continuing the ‘How much sex in marriage?’ conversation with Brett Fish and the beautiful Val [tbV]

the other day i posted an answer to a 'how much sex in marriage?' question that someone left after a 'Singleness' blog post and it got a whole lot of attention... realising that Sex in Marriage is a bit of a Taboo Topic that doesn't get much attention, this felt like a healthy conversation to continue and so i had an online chat with Val about some of the stuff that came up in the [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-28T19:19:00+02:00April 28th, 2013|activities, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, the beautiful Val (tbV), thorts of other people|0 Comments

How full is your magnifying glass?

You know the saying: The pessimist looks at the glass and says, "It is half empty." The optimist looks at the glass and says, "It is half full." Then there is the one where the realist adds his comment. "I think the glass is full of pee." i call myself 'the eternal optimist', especially when it comes to sport watching because i like to believe til the absolute last moment that my guy or team [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-28T08:13:24+02:00April 28th, 2013|and other animals., humour'ish|0 Comments

Greek Mythology meets dramatised irony.

By brettfish|2013-04-27T05:32:07+02:00April 27th, 2013|and other animals., humour'ish|0 Comments

Saturday Round Up: The week that was: Episode 5: of Pant-Shipping and universal faith, signs of understanding and boxes full of plastic balls and strangers.

so my new 'The Weekly Mash [and Peace!]' blog is still in its early days but it's been encouraging to see new people subscribing almost daily - as it is still quite new though not a lot of people are visiting each of these posts and there have been some amazing things there, so if you are someone who reads stuff on Irresistibly Fish [my main blog] all the time, then i encourage you to [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-26T22:10:24+02:00April 26th, 2013|challenging thorts, humour'ish, relationships, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

How much sex in marriage? [part ‘you’]

little did i know when i responded to someone's comment about how much sex should take place in marriage [ironically in the comments section on a blog i posted on 'Singleness'] that this would get as much attention as it did... ...and not just people viewing it, but people talking about it and i appreciated some of the comments so much that i felt like they deserved their own blog and so i am simply [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-25T16:51:51+02:00April 25th, 2013|activities, and other animals., love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Mark, my words: The things of God, or the traditions of man?

i am not a big fan of tradition when it is solely taking place for tradition's sake [even if the original meaning and intention might have been good but has been lost or watered down along the way] but there are some traditions which are rich and full of life [baptism, communion, a family that eats together etc] that are incredible. Join me as I look at Mark 7.1-13: [to continue to the [...]