church : Brett Fish

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

i kissed hating [the church] goodbye…

that is the title of my yet-to-be-published book. i have a title. and i have a book. and i think i am ready to start exploring ideas of how to go forward with getting it published. i have spent the last few days proof-reading someone else's book and it made me realise [along with a friend of mine who started reading my book and gave me some positive feedback, thankx Liam!] that i pushed through [...]

By brettfish|2012-05-12T11:00:55+02:00May 12th, 2012|activities, and other animals., church|2 Comments

you can't "Love your enemies" if you're never near them…

we read this as part of morning prayer this morning: 'Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, "Jesus Christ lived in the midst of His enemies. At the end, all of His disciples deserted Him. On the cross He was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause He had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life, but in the thick of [...]

By brettfish|2012-04-09T08:42:33+02:00April 9th, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, church, God stuff, what i am reading|2 Comments

Losing weight, while needing to find some. [a message to the wronged]

so i have been going to gym, with my good friend from across the street, Coe aka Cobra [aka creator of the most powerful beast in the world - the Snuck - it's a snake, but it looks like a duck so you think it's all cute and innocent and go to stroke it, but watch out, it's a SNAKE!!!] [disclaimer: Coe has not actually created any Snucks as of yet so back of PETA, [...]

By brettfish|2012-04-03T08:42:22+02:00April 3rd, 2012|activities, and other animals., challenging thorts, church, friends and enemas, God stuff, people, relationships|2 Comments

Taboo Topics: Losing a baby – meet Sandi and Mike

The 18 August 2009 is the day that life changed for Mike and I. It was the day that we saw our baby on the sonar screen for the first time, but instead of tears of joy, tears of indescribable sadness flowed as we saw our quiet, lifeless baby on the screen with no heartbeat. At home that evening Mike and I sat very quiet on the couch, staring at the tv feeling completely numb. [...]

By brettfish|2012-03-13T23:02:31+02:00March 13th, 2012|challenging thorts, church, God stuff, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, life, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|4 Comments

new year’s evolutions to consider part viii [let go of offence]

looking at life-transforming changes you can bring to yourself in 2012, here is another great idea: if you sneak your car in front of me when i am in a long line of traffic heading towards the off-ramp, i can respond in two ways - swear loudly and flip you the finger while holding my hand down on the hooter [horn to the americanese!] or i can choose to smile and give you the spot [...]

By brettfish|2012-01-08T09:58:34+02:00January 8th, 2012|activities, change the world, church, God stuff, life|5 Comments

grow up and become a child

on Christmas day, tbV and i went to visit a church called Epic that our friends Cody and Lyndsey go to and really had a great time - they meet in a cinema and we were greeted with good coffee and donuts, so pretty much everything i look for in a church [harr!] and then we found the one thing we had been missing in a bunch of churches we have visited since being in [...]

By brettfish|2011-12-27T05:31:55+02:00December 27th, 2011|activities, challenging thorts, church, God stuff, inspire-ations, thorts of other people|1 Comment

guaranteed way to get rich quick.

last night the beautiful Val and Monkman and myself went to a homeless memorial service in town where a bunch of different organisations who work with homeless people, such as project home where will [who runs our alternative seminary classes] works to specifically remember those homeless or previously homeless people who had died in the last year – more than fifty names were read out at one part of the service which took place outside [...]

By brettfish|2011-12-22T09:09:35+02:00December 22nd, 2011|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, church, life, local news|2 Comments

putting the ‘C’ back in Christmas [part iii]

this year we got to be secret rooftop witnesses of this incredible act of Christmas mischief that Shane speaks about in this article and it was incredible hearing some of the stories from some of the people who had no idea where the money came from and yet for some of them it was a complete lifeline and life-changing moment for them: So here is the start of the article shane wrote but click on [...]

By brettfish|2011-12-20T22:23:49+02:00December 20th, 2011|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, church, God stuff, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, love and chocolate, people, thorts of other people|0 Comments

all you can hope or imagine. and then some.

last nite at our simple way potluck we had some directors come show us a documentary they made about a family from columbia - the main thrust of the movie was about these fumigations that americaland funds to try and nail cocaine fields in columbia [planes flying over and dumping poison] altho in a nutshell the poison kills all food crops completely and the coca plant which is the intended victim grows back in three [...]

By brettfish|2011-10-22T17:36:30+02:00October 22nd, 2011|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, church, friends and enemas, God stuff, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, life, local news|1 Comment