Blog : Brett Fish

10 Practical Ways you can get involved with bridge-building

So much good stuff happening all over the internet the last two weeks in terms of helping us understand some of the challenges we are facing. i stumbled upon this in the Warehouse’s most recent newsletter and wanted to share it with you as some really practical steps for moving forwards together. These steps apparently emerged from a conversation between Linda Martindale, Caroline Powell and my wife, tbV [the beautiful Val]. We have heard a [...]

By brettfish|2015-10-30T11:35:04+02:00October 30th, 2015|challenging thorts, change the world, friends and enemas, inspire-ations, local news, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|6 Comments

The Bully in the Mirror

A wise teacher once told the story of a man who was on a journey, who was mugged and beaten up, robbed of all his possessions and left on the side of the street to die. […]

By brettfish|2015-10-29T07:09:09+02:00October 29th, 2015|challenging thorts, change the world, local news, things to wrestle with|8 Comments

A Frikkin Hashtag round 2: And Then The World Ended

Last week was the second official week of the South African presence on the International Trending Hashtagging game app under the hashtag @AFrikkinHashtag [Say it out loud]. Despite it happening right in the middle of all the #FeesMustFall action, we still somehow managed to briefly trend in South Africa for the first time while also trending solidly at number 4 in the States. […]

By brettfish|2015-10-28T08:54:34+02:00October 28th, 2015|and other animals., fun, silly things|5 Comments

Morocco- I was wrong. [Glimpse into the story of a Christian moving to a Muslim country]

My Facebook friend Mandy asked if she could share a post about her recent journey into Morocco… […]

By brettfish|2015-10-27T09:04:11+02:00October 27th, 2015|thorts of other people|4 Comments

How to be an Ally: Just say “No!”

This week i was hanging out with my friend Susan and she told me a story that happened recently about standing up to racism. […]

By brettfish|2015-10-27T06:10:32+02:00October 27th, 2015|challenging thorts, change the world, South Africa|9 Comments

Some Pictures to help you Walk through #FeesMustFall

There have been a lot of words written this last week with regards to #FeesMustFall and it can be quite overwhelming to try and wade through them all. Sometimes pictures can speak louder than words, so here is a post with some of the better pictures i have found that help to put this past week and some of the related issues into some kind of perspective. Firstly the Ant vs Cricket scenario we witnessed [...]

By brettfish|2015-10-26T11:58:57+02:00October 26th, 2015|change the world, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with|1 Comment

5 Suggestions to help you Carpe each Diem out of this week.

It’s the beginning of a new week and if you’re not careful, and a little bit intentional, before you know it it can suddenly be Friday and the week will have snuck by like just another week. i wanted to do my little bit to hopefully help you stop that from happening by suggesting five very different ways you can be intentional about make this a week of Significance. Don’t try and do all five, [...]

By brettfish|2015-10-26T09:36:24+02:00October 26th, 2015|inspire-ations, life|0 Comments

An Open Letter to the Church of South Africa regarding #FeesMustFall

With thanks to Nick Frost aka @Nick_Frost for this pic Dear Church in South Africa, i am not known for my brevity, but let me give this a try. Firstly, i hope you know just how much i love you. […]

By brettfish|2015-10-25T13:12:03+02:00October 25th, 2015|church, local news, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with|2 Comments

Nutshell Learnings from #FeesMustFall

Picture made by Nick Frost and used without all of his permission, yet. i only have a few minutes to write this before i have to go out to do a talk [which has been much affected by this week’s events] so this will not be as meaty as it could be, but i wanted to get something out. The last few days have been kindova blur – i have written and shared [...]

By brettfish|2015-10-24T07:53:37+02:00October 24th, 2015|change the world, friends and enemas, inspire-ations, things to wrestle with|4 Comments

How to Spot your Friends via #FeesMustFall

They often say that during a crisis, to know who your true friends are, just look left and right. Actually i don’t know if they do say that, i just came up with it but i’m pretty sure if i try and claim it some dead guy is going to come forward and say, “Um actually Brett Fish, that one is mine.” Like that whole “I have a dream” debacle. Okay not quite, but still. [...]