Last night we hosted another Deep Dive Conversation Dinner, this time at someone else's house. This was a dinner that has been in the planning for months and one that i've been super excited and anticipationary about. Getting some leaders from St Johns Anglican church [where i currently hang out and am preaching on Sunday in the am actually if you want to come and hear!] to meet around food and conversations about race, with [...]
Yesterday, 16 November 2016 @AFrikkinHashtag ruled the world... albeit for a couple of hours. #2016WasTheYearThatIFinally was the Hashtag which was a rif on a game we did last year which was of course #2015WasTheYearThatIFinally. i thought it would be great to have a bit of a game tradition that people can look out for. Also i remembered last year's game as being super positive and with all the negativity recently, especially around Americaland politics etc, it [...]
For months i've been speaking about the idea of #NotOnOurWatch as a movement worth joining. i know a lot of people have been challenged by that and in their own ways are joining in [i know because i am having conversations with some of them and assume there are a lot more] But i think it's helpful to clarify something. Just read an article that suggested calling someone racist isn't helpful at all in terms [...]
What do you do when your Hashtagging Game has been around for a whole year? Why, you throw an anniversary celebration party of course. On the 19th of October 2016, A Frikkin Hashtag did just that and hordes of old ex-hosts joined the regular loyal UnNamed Ones Crew and threw the biggest anniversary game possible. [The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of brilliant, [...]
Rob Lloyd. Tomorrow will be one whole year since you've been gone. And i remember. Theologically i don't know that i believe that you're up there somewhere looking down on me. But in every other way i feel like i often live as if that is true. When i think of you looking down on me... i am a better person i am more hesitant to do dodgy things [because Rob is watching and i [...]
i attended the Restitution Conference yesterday at the Castle in Cape Town, cos slavery. [And am going back later today for part II] Which in some ways just feels like a thing i did. Oh i went to this thing and stuff happened and people spoke and it was good. Excepting that it wasn't just a thing. It was the first ever Restitution Conference in South Africa. And that something like 21 years after our [...]
When it comes to things about race, i have been on a journey for just over two years. i have certainly not arrived and assume this will be a life long journey. But i did realise that i couldn't ignore it any more or choose to get involved if, when and how it suited me. Living in South Africa right now means that issues of race, justice and poverty have to be forefront in my [...]
If you're never offended, you're probably dead. i remember hearing an excellent preach by my friend Albert, a Korean-American pastor in Americaland, on the subject of intolerance. He suggested that we are all intolerant, but that we choose what to be intolerant towards. If you believe in a clean and appealing neighbourhood or city, then you will rightly be intolerant towards litter. If you believe in the basic human right of living, then you will [...]
Do you dream? Either at night in the form of happy Unicorn flying you through the air or scary mare of the night terrorising you? Or else in terms of hopes and aspirations for the future? Now what if you took those dreams and shared them in 140 character poem form? We decided to ask you to give it a try... [The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an [...]
When i click on my Facebook notifications i see names of people that have written things i have not yet seen. Some of them make me sigh internally and dread clicking cos i just know it's going to be a fight or an excuse or a blame, while others make me do the interesting sound internally [is there an interesting sound? Something between a hm and an ah perhaps?] cos i think there is a good [...]
