Every Wednesday i host an event on The Twitterer called a Hashtagging game. More specifically my game is called @AFrikkinHashtag and it is a lot of fun. And if you download the FREE @HashtagRoundup App then you can play it and a whole host of other games like it as well. Hundreds of people from around the world jump on board, usually for an hour or two and try to come up with suggestions to a fun [...]
Another Wednesday, another Hashtag game… although this was not just another hashtag game. It was really interesting how this one played out… RSA Min of Warts [@Stevens947] played the co-host role and we even had a co-co-host in the incredible Kesha Tedder [@KeshaTedder] who i have an online ongoing “nemesis battle” with, and it was a whole lot of crazy fun. […]
Three weeks ago, co-host Chris aka @Taliesyne, who with the backdrop of storms trying to flood his house in Australia, helped me to see #YouHadMeAt [and occasionally #YouHadMeat] break the 40 thousand tweet barrier and just go pretty mental… Two weeks ago, at our last game, it was Kage aka @swissmistress who joined in with the much more specific-flavoured tag of the Monty-Python inspired #ThisParrotIsntDeadIts: […]
How brave do you feel today? i am busy reading slowly through a book written by a guy called Ron Sider, titled, ‘Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger’ and this chapter, which is about halfway through the book has the title, ‘A Biblical Attitude towards Property and Wealth’. […]
i miss you, Robert Lloyd. Two nights ago i was sitting with tbV in our courtyard drinking a glass of chocolate wine [it’s a thing!], eating Lindt balls and sharing a cigar, having a moment of remembering my best friend [this week has been filled with different versions of those] and we each shared stories of Rob and things that came to mind when we thought about him. […]
A couple of months ago i discovered a sandwich that completely revolutionised my blogging. If you’re a bloggerist like myself, then this may just blow you away. But i am not talking about something as simple as this: […]
Amici, peregrinos cives, date 'i, church' descriptiones vestras mihi Or, roughly translated, 'Friends, Foreigners, Countrymen, lend me your photos of 'i, church''. To everyone who has a copy of my book, 'i, church': [1] i would love to build up my gallery of pics of the book so if you are up to selfie'ing a pic of yourself and the book so i can get some shots of people who have it, i would love [...]
This is my friend Rob Davey who lives in Zimbabwe. i have not seen Rob for something like 10 to 15 years i imagine and yet we recently connected and i asked him if he would write a piece for this blog. i have a saying that 'Quality Shows' and with some people you just identify that immediately - Rob is one of these people - reading this piece will give you that impression as [...]
It’s Good Friday. I am sitting in a coffee shop. In Manenberg. A community that is often perceived as hopeless, as a being a part of the cycle of violence and structures and things that will not change. Yet, as I sit in this coffee shop hope prevails. Part of the reason for this is that there are hope bringers in this community as much as there are gangs and drugs and violence. One of [...]
In the last day of so, i have seen the phrase and hashtag, "Christian Cleavage" showing up all over the internet and so, being a curious guy, went to take a look at what my extended family is up to this time. Turns out it all started [was re-ignited?] when an apparently prominent Christian blogger, Jarrid Wilson, wrote a blog post titled, 'The Problem with Christian Cleavage' that apparently caused so much controversy and mayhem [...]