positive ideas for change

Are you making anti-racist disciples?

Have you considered making anti-racist disciples? This is something we don't hear too much about. When we hear the term 'disciples' we might think religious context and christianity in particular. The last recorded command we have from Jesus was: 'Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them... and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.'  But there is definitely something in there worth paying attention to, even if you are [...]

By |2021-01-28T12:06:36+02:00January 28th, 2021|#NotOnOurWatch, change the world, Justice, positive ideas for change|0 Comments
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The Little Garden That Could

How does one go about creating Eden? Especially when the story starts something like: Once upon a time there was a wasteland, a dry and barren verge of ugliness in a small corner of Diep River. Well, the first step is to have a dream and my wife Valerie [aka tbV or The Beautiful Val, to me!] and i had been wanting to do something creative and gardeny in our community since we moved [...]

By |2021-02-04T18:18:05+02:00January 15th, 2021|Community, inspire-ations, Justice, positive ideas for change, stories, the beautiful Val (tbV)|2 Comments
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Sharing is Blaring.

Yes, yes, i know what you're thinking - "Sharing is CARING, Brett!" - and that's true. Teaching kids to share can be one of the greatest lessons we can give them - actually teaching adults to share would be an amazing accomplishment and sort out many of the world's problems. But i want to suggest a new way of thinking about this, especially when it comes to the internet. Sharing is Blaring. Blare: to [...]

By |2021-01-23T10:14:55+02:00October 26th, 2020|inspire-ations, Justice, positive ideas for change, the great online|0 Comments
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What am I not doing?

Describe to me how the world would look to you if everything was working for everyone the way it was meant to. i imagine for a lot of people this might look like a list of negatives: No more racism No more sexism No more zenophobia No more hatred of any groups or people who are different in any way. No more wars No more rape No more violence And so on... What is [...]

By |2021-01-23T10:17:15+02:00October 12th, 2020|inspire-ations, Justice, positive ideas for change|0 Comments
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But what can I do about race? [Ideas 1-5]

"But what can I do?" asked the white person. Who had just about gotten to the point of realisation that things were not white right in the world with regards to race and that something needed to be done. Which is where a lot of white people tend to stall out. "Yes, i get that there's a problem, but tell me what can I do?" as if with any other problem they faced they [...]

By |2021-01-23T18:33:46+02:00August 25th, 2020|#NotOnOurWatch, 40 Tips, Justice, positive ideas for change, race vibes, Race with Me, things to wrestle with|0 Comments
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Own your mistakes! And move on, determined to do better.

To move forward in South Africa, and, let's be honest, the world, we have to learn to own it. Making a mistake is not the end of the world. Getting it wrong sucks but it doesn't have to be the end. Messing up horribly or completely putting your foot in it in the very worst of ways can also be recovered from. BUT you absolutely have to own it! This means humility, honesty, vulnerability, [...]

By |2021-01-23T18:34:13+02:00August 24th, 2020|#NotOnOurWatch, activities, change the world, Justice, positive ideas for change|0 Comments
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It is always about the audience

We do it for the audience! i spend a lot of time in online conversations, often around topics involving Justice. Looking at race or poverty or gender discrimination and more. There are times when i really get into it with someone and there is a back-and-forth and it becomes pretty obvious quite early on that neither of us are going to change our mind. In those situations, people often ask me, "Why do you [...]

By |2021-01-23T18:37:11+02:00August 3rd, 2020|Justice, positive ideas for change, the great online, things to wrestle with, tricky things|2 Comments
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While waiting on the government [corruption]…

It is hard to be a South African sometimes.  As a white South African, i sit with the heavy injustices of colonialism and apartheid in my rear view mirror all the time. As a black, coloured or indian South African, they live in the consequences of colonialism and apartheid as well as a worldwide uplifting of whiteness to the detriment of everything else. As a male, we sit with a horrific pandemic of violence [...]

By |2021-01-24T08:24:47+02:00July 16th, 2020|#NotOnOurWatch, Justice, pain and Hope, positive ideas for change, South Africa, things to wrestle with|1 Comment
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#NotOnOurWatch

i speak a lot about #NotOnOurWatch and thought it deserved a post. Interrupting Racism As a white person, i hold to a daily #NotOnOurWatch commitment when it comes to racism. This is a commitment i make every morning when i get up to interrupt racism wherever i see it. There are a few things that come to mind: Every Day - not simply when i feel like it, which is not a lot of [...]

By |2021-01-24T08:33:57+02:00July 10th, 2020|#NotOnOurWatch, activities, inspire-ations, Justice, Justice issues, positive ideas for change, things to wrestle with|0 Comments
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Character Stories for Children: A transition…

It's time to catch you up on the happenings of our Character Stories for Children kids YouTube channel.  i see that my first post about the channel happened the day after April Fool's Day. But this was no joke. We had just gone into Lockdown and it felt like this might be a particularly tough time for parents of young children. So first up i gathered together a whole list of different activities and [...]

By |2021-01-24T08:35:58+02:00June 29th, 2020|activities, Character Stories for Children, poems and other creativity, positive ideas for change|0 Comments
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