what i am reading : Brett Fish

It’s time to be on the lookout for the fruit of the Angus Buchan prayer time

God stuff, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading

It’s time to be on the lookout for the fruit of the Angus Buchan prayer time

On Saturday 22 April, 2017, a million South Africans met in Bloemfontein to pray for South Africa. Or three hundred thousand. Or closer to 2 million. Depending who you ask. People of all races, ages and genders. Or majority white afrikaans middle class people. Again, difficult to say. Let's get this straight from the start - this is not a popularity piece - writing on another such polarized/polarising event in South Africa is very likely [...]

By brettfish|2017-04-25T13:53:08+02:00April 25th, 2017|God stuff, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|16 Comments

Chasing Francis: On Artists, Forgiveness and a Communal Faith

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Chasing Francis: On Artists, Forgiveness and a Communal Faith

i already shared some glimpses into the book 'Chasing Francis' that i am busy reading and absolutely loving. i have a lot of pieces of paper sticking out of a lot of pages, so i thought i would have to do a follow up, with the main focus being GET A HOLD OF THIS BOOK... this is simple a trailer, but the whole book chewed on as a meal is what you really want. = [...]

By brettfish|2017-04-20T17:43:50+02:00April 20th, 2017|inspire-ations, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|3 Comments

Chasing ‘Chasing Francis’: a book review of sorts

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Chasing ‘Chasing Francis’: a book review of sorts

'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.' [Marcel Proust] i am about a third of the way through reading the book 'Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale' by Ian Morgan Cron and already trying to figure out in my head how i am going to get hold of ten copies of it to pass on to that person and that person and maybe you... but seriously, whether [...]

By brettfish|2017-04-26T10:37:27+02:00April 15th, 2017|inspire-ations, what i am reading|6 Comments

Post-Marchem: Reflections after the #AntiZumaMarch

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Post-Marchem: Reflections after the #AntiZumaMarch

i have to go out quite early today, so not going to be able to compile as much as i would hope, but maybe tomorrow there will be a part II. Yesterday there was a march and some people did and some people didn't and you can read my thoughts about that if you didn't yet... but here are a couple of reflections i have seen from people on my feed: = = = = [...]

By brettfish|2017-04-08T18:29:05+02:00April 8th, 2017|South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading, what i am watching|2 Comments

#BlackMonday review: Wear black if you want, but also don’t.

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#BlackMonday review: Wear black if you want, but also don’t.

So #BlackMonday was a thing. For anyone who missed it, i wrote a post during the day collating a lot of the stuff i shared and read which i titled: Bleak Monday: Studios were touched It was in some ways a frustrating day, but i also saw a lot of what felt like really helpful engagement which for the most part was positive and for that i am grateful. We don't have to all end [...]

By brettfish|2017-04-04T14:12:26+02:00April 4th, 2017|pain and Hope, positive ideas for change, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|7 Comments

Bleak Monday: Studios were touched

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Bleak Monday: Studios were touched

Some thoughts linked to #BlackMonday that took place in South Africa this past week... i imagine an up market coffee shop somewhere in the heart of Cape Town where black clothed wearing upper class people are sipping on their frozen no-whip skinny ironies... = = = i woke up this morning with no idea what i was going to wear - which is stupid, really, cos Monday is Batman t-shirt day [this is not a [...]

By brettfish|2017-04-04T14:16:11+02:00April 3rd, 2017|pain and Hope, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|13 Comments

Accidental Saints: Part Mary, mother of Jesus

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Accidental Saints: Part Mary, mother of Jesus

i have just finished reading Nadia Bolz-Weber's second book, Accidental Saints: Finding God in all the Wrong People and i highly recommend it to everyone. Especially people who are not Christian. i really think this is a book you might enjoy because of the heart, compassion and just basic realness of this lady. The first part i shared dealt with the question of Who Pastors the Bishop? and this extract is from a chapter titled, 'Mary, [...]

By brettfish|2017-03-30T17:21:00+02:00March 30th, 2017|God stuff, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

Accidental Saints: Part ‘Who Pastors the Bishop?’

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Accidental Saints: Part ‘Who Pastors the Bishop?’

i am busy reading Nadia Bolz-Weber's Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People and being completely inspired by it. For those of you who don't know her, Nadia is the tattoo-covered ex-addict F-bombing Lutheran pastor who wrote the amazing Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint [do yourself a favour!] and she is back with this, her second book. Short chapters that really kick you in the chops and it's not [...]

By brettfish|2017-05-01T15:09:25+02:00March 28th, 2017|God stuff, inspire-ations, thorts of other people, what i am reading|1 Comment

The Bad Habits of Jesus, part Dangerous

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The Bad Habits of Jesus, part Dangerous

i am busy reading [and really enjoying] Leonard Sweet's 'The Bad Habits of Jesus'. People who know me well, will get that one of the reasons i am really enjoying it is because it is not a wade - the words are straightforward and simple even if the concepts are not. But today, when i've been feeling completely in a funk and when i was in desperate need of some inspiration and belief, i read [...]

By brettfish|2017-03-03T13:48:19+02:00March 3rd, 2017|God stuff, inspire-ations, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

The Bad Habits of Jesus

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The Bad Habits of Jesus

i am busy reading Leonard Sweet's book, 'The Bad Habits of Jesus: Showing us the way to live right in a world gone wrong'. It has a very different way of looking at Jesus in terms of picking up some things that might be seen as bad habits - He spat, He procrastinated, He was constantly disappearing, He offended people, He hung out with bad people and so on - and showing how they point [...]