change the world : Brett Fish

Taboo Topics: Contents Page

Taboo Topics is a series dedicated to sharing stories from real live people [mostly who i know] on real life issues, situations or experiences that are seldom spoken about for various reasons. So far the topics that have been addressed [with links to all the stories] are the following: Abortion Addiction Adoption Cancer Dealing with the Grief of losing Someone you Love Eating Disorders Fostering a Child Infertility Living with Disabilities/Special Needs Losing a Baby [...]

By brettfish|2017-03-29T07:06:46+02:00September 4th, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, life, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Conversations 1: part poverty definition

my friend and bossman, Darin, shared some stuff on Saturday's Simple Way Conversations day on the theme of stewarding your treasures [your money and things] well in the world we live in... one really interesting thing he said which made me think was when he asked about the definition of poverty and said that often poverty has been defined as THE LACK OF STUFF? that's true, right? i'm sure most of us would agree... but [...]

By brettfish|2012-08-27T18:08:10+02:00August 27th, 2012|change the world, church, life, people, relationships, thorts of other people|7 Comments

Love Jesus and… grow a brain!

"the Bible says so!" end to an argument for a lot of people [who won't necessarily give you a book, chapter and verse to make it easier on you but are pretty convinced in their heads that because they think something is true then surely the Bible must say so] about a week ago i got involved in a 'discussion' on the 'book [the less quotable one] where a pastor had posted a statement made [...]

By brettfish|2012-08-10T06:45:16+02:00August 10th, 2012|change the world, God stuff, people, shtupidt people|14 Comments

Taboo Topics: Pornography/Masturbation – meet Steve Heineman

Firstly, I want to thank Brett for giving me a podium and his trust. Secondly, I want to thank you for your courage to read anything about the struggles people face with porn and masturbation. This is not a really short story, but perhaps it is a familiar one. I pray that it is as helpful to you to read it as it was for me to write it. I was introduced to masturbation before [...]

By brettfish|2012-08-09T13:09:42+02:00August 9th, 2012|and other animals., change the world, God stuff, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|2 Comments

Cheat! But not alone…

so this week i found out on twitter that our south african olympic swimming gold medalist, cameron van der bergh, had admitted to cheating to get his gold medal by doing a succession of dolphin kicks underwater in the pool [apparently only one is allowed] and it bummed me out. so, as one does, i made a facebook status about it... and was doubly surprised and bummed at how many [mostly christians] wrote comments on [...]

By brettfish|2012-08-07T08:45:22+02:00August 7th, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, games & Stuff, God stuff, shtupidt people, silly things, sport and games|15 Comments

the key moment in the Keys

i do have a second lesser known blog called 'the simple weigh' where the idea is to hold two different ideas up against each other and also to document some of our travels as we are part of the Simple Way community in Philadelphia, Americaland... and i just posted a big risk and an incredible follow-up which is the story of last nite's happenings at the youth week i am currently speaking at in the [...]

By brettfish|2012-07-26T07:39:34+02:00July 26th, 2012|activities, change the world, God stuff, inspire-ations|0 Comments

the days i wrote about hitler, retards, hating christianity and gay people…

one of my facebook friends [Catherine Rogers] posted a status about the overabundance of brett FISH anderson articles/blogs/videos on her newsfeed and the struggle to pick which to give her time to [not complaining that there was so much but that there was too much choice] and so somehow five minutes later i found myself looking back through some early pre-Simple Way blog posts i made two or more years ago and finding a bunch [...]

By brettfish|2012-07-12T07:11:36+02:00July 12th, 2012|and other animals., challenging thorts, change the world, church, God stuff|1 Comment

Mid-year resolutions

well if you know me a little bit, you know i am not a big fan of resolutions [nice-sounding generally-empty promises you make to yourself and keep for a week at the beginning of each year] but i did write a piece on new year's evolutions once with the idea of putting things into play that will actually change you or your circumstances or community... and being mid-way through the year is a great time [...]

By brettfish|2012-07-02T09:53:10+02:00July 2nd, 2012|activities, and other animals., change the world, life, relationships|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Philippa and Emiel

this is from my good friends, Philippa [who i met online when i was overseas] and Emiel [who i met back home years ago] who somehow met each other and got happily married [which is a great story and i don't think i had anything to do with it]: "We are the family waiting (not so patiently) to adopt" My name is Philippa and I am married to my hero Emiel. We are the proud [...]

By brettfish|2012-06-07T23:00:23+02:00June 7th, 2012|change the world, friends and enemas, God stuff, life, love and chocolate, marriage, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|2 Comments

Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Jane and Mike

My husband mike and I decided to start a family at the beginning of last year and so I went off contraception and we started trying. We assumed it would be quick and easy, because we have only heard stories of people falling pregnant quickly – even in the first or second month, and with no complications. And so the first month or two we weren’t worried, we enjoyed the excitement of getting ready to [...]

By brettfish|2012-06-04T15:36:45+02:00June 4th, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, friends and enemas, God stuff, inspire-ations, marriage, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|6 Comments