change the world : Brett Fish

when Desmond Tutu met No_bob [part II]

This is a continuation of the previous post which started giving an overview and summary of my participation in the ‘Revisiting The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Faith Community Hearing' which took place this week. Here are some selected highlight moments that could be captured on The Tweeterer in 140 characters of less: FROM THE TWITTERER [Day 1 of 2] While 140 character messages don't capture the whole of what was experienced, hopefully they will help you [...]

By brettfish|2014-10-10T07:12:56+02:00October 10th, 2014|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, church, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, thorts of other people, Uncategorized, what i am watching|1 Comment

Dear Bloggers of Undetermined Colour

So this past week all the bloggers of colour have been writing to all the other bloggers of other colour but since they do not know each other personally [maybe the main problem?] they are simply sticking them on their blog for mostly people of their own colour to read and cheer and like and comment on... although every now and then a person of the other colour stumbles upon it and makes themselves known... [...]

By brettfish|2014-09-30T02:16:13+02:00September 30th, 2014|challenging thorts, change the world, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people, what i am reading|31 Comments

Taboo Topics: Living with Disability – meet Lachlan Nicholson [Spastic Cerebral Palsy]

I’m a quadriplegic, not an inspiration By Lachlan Nicholson Fresh off of my twenty-fourth birthday and living with a condition known as spastic cerebral palsy, I consider most things in my life to be causes for joy and gratitude. After all, I have a full-time job, several good friends and though severe, my disability is not in any way degenerative. However, one thing which has become a major annoyance, particularly since entering adulthood is constantly [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-02T17:34:05+02:00September 16th, 2014|change the world, pain and Hope, people, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|14 Comments

i’m not sure you’re against that thing you think you’re against: white privilege

A lot of people, yes white ones [like me], switch off when we hear the term 'white privilege' [please don't!] Some people, yes white ones, get angry when we hear the term 'white privilege' [please don't!] But i sometimes wonder if it is because of a misunderstanding of what people who talk about 'white privilege' mean when they do so. So please take a deep breath and try and approach this piece with fresh eyes [forget [...]

By brettfish|2014-09-03T07:28:09+02:00September 3rd, 2014|challenging thorts, change the world, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people, what i am reading|53 Comments

What the world cup reveals about our faith

this is something that my friend Deborah Dowlath reminded me in her simple blog post, A Drop in the Ocean which included this line: I wish that followers of Christ would be as vocal about the injustices that occur on a daily basis as they are about the progress of their favourite team. and this passage: Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then [...]

By brettfish|2014-07-05T11:04:23+02:00July 5th, 2014|challenging thorts, change the world, pain and Hope, shtupidt people, worship|0 Comments

Dinner with a Difference

A community of friends who pool their money to meet the needs of people they know. That is what Common Change is all about. And that is the non-profit that my wife, tbV, and i work with and have been for the last year and a half. Almost every time we explain the concept to people and they get it, it excites them and they want to know more. But many people in that boat [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-30T14:34:26+02:00June 30th, 2014|activities, change the world, friends and enemas, inspire-ations|0 Comments

crazytown – a poem by my imaginary friend, Michael Toy

i am busy reading this poetry book which was a gift to me by a friend i have only met online and know through friends of friends but his gift of words and wielding them to weave and create and display and be creative is at the same time obvious and captivating here is a second one that really resonated with me [maybe cos i am all that kinds of crazy myself]: [from the book, [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-22T12:35:37+02:00June 22nd, 2014|challenging thorts, change the world, God stuff, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

The will of God [aka When God dies, who gets His stuff]

"I'm not sure what God's will is for my life!" i hear this a lot, or some other version of it. And i have spoken about/written on this before, but feels like a good time to bring it up. YES, YOU NAILED IT, GOD WANTED THAT BABY TO GET SICK AND DIE possibly the worst scenario this plays out in is when someone gets an incurably disease or a person dies and somebody who is chatting [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-17T09:30:26+02:00June 17th, 2014|bible things, change the world, God stuff, inspire-ations|0 Comments

Standing with the least likely to succeed

If i was sharing every chapter and excerpt i enjoyed from ‘Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion’ by Father Gregory Boyle, which i have been reading and really being deeply moved by, then the whole book would pretty much be in here. But i am wanting you to get hold of the book and so am only sharing a story or a passage from every couple of chapters in the book. There is some [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-15T08:01:29+02:00June 15th, 2014|change the world, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, thorts of other people, what i am watching|0 Comments

i’m not sure you’re against that thing you think you’re against: part rape culture

What does the term 'Rape Culture' mean? The phrase is off-putting and in some ways misleading [to someone who doesn't understand what it means at any rate]. Tell a guy he is a part of the existing rape culture and he is most likely to react strongly against that: "How dare you suggest I'm a rapist? Or put me in the same grouping as rapists as if I could be one of them." Well, sometimes [...]

By brettfish|2019-10-18T09:31:06+02:00June 12th, 2014|change the world, pain and Hope|9 Comments