love : Brett Fish

God called. He’d like His job back.

this has been quite an eventful week. WORLD VISION AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE World Vision made a dramatic did-they-really-not-expect-the-reaction-it-got decision involving allowing employees to be in same-sex marriages. the Evangelical response was strong with notable Christian speakers such as John Piper and Franklin Graham speaking out against the decision and many Christians apparently withdrawing support for World Vision and specifically for the children they support via World Vision. a day or two later World Vision does a [...]

By brettfish|2014-03-29T08:49:20+02:00March 29th, 2014|bible things, change the world, church, God stuff, love and chocolate, shtupidt people, Uncategorized|2 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: (fleeting)

Another week, another photo challenge and this time to find the right picture or pictures to capture the idea of fleeting. I could not look past our wedding pics for this, both because I think they really do capture the idea of a moment caught in time, but also give the idea of this thing will move on and this moment will pass. The commitment will continue and is hopefully strong and steadfast and true, [...]

By brettfish|2013-06-07T16:48:09+02:00June 7th, 2013|challenges, love and chocolate, marriage, silly things, the beautiful Val (tbV)|17 Comments

Taboo Topics: Sex in Marriage – Meet Helene Scalliet

And now a glimpse into the story of Steve and Helene from Helene's side: I will start with the here and now – Steve and I have been married two and a half years and together six years. I feel very blessed and fulfilled by our physical intimacy, and am looking for many years of exploring what that will look like in the various seasons that await us. Knowing where the other comes from with [...]

By brettfish|2013-05-01T05:54:29+02:00May 1st, 2013|challenging thorts, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Sex in Marriage [Intro]

Wow! So this one should get people clicking on it. It may seem like a bit of an unusual topic to list under 'Taboo Topics' which after all was a series designed with the aim of talking about some of the issues that are very prevalent in the world, but that the church [and often even the outside-of-the-church world] rarely speaks about, or into. But think about it for a second. Preaching about sex in [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-02T16:21:58+02:00April 29th, 2013|challenging thorts, God stuff, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|5 Comments

Continuing the ‘How much sex in marriage?’ conversation with Brett Fish and the beautiful Val [tbV]

the other day i posted an answer to a 'how much sex in marriage?' question that someone left after a 'Singleness' blog post and it got a whole lot of attention... realising that Sex in Marriage is a bit of a Taboo Topic that doesn't get much attention, this felt like a healthy conversation to continue and so i had an online chat with Val about some of the stuff that came up in the [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-28T19:19:00+02:00April 28th, 2013|activities, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, the beautiful Val (tbV), thorts of other people|0 Comments

How much sex in marriage? [part ‘you’]

little did i know when i responded to someone's comment about how much sex should take place in marriage [ironically in the comments section on a blog i posted on 'Singleness'] that this would get as much attention as it did... ...and not just people viewing it, but people talking about it and i appreciated some of the comments so much that i felt like they deserved their own blog and so i am simply [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-25T16:51:51+02:00April 25th, 2013|activities, and other animals., love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, thorts of other people|0 Comments

How much sex in marriage?

So i got this comment at the bottom of the recent 'Singleness' Taboo Topic posted and approved it and started replying, but then thought that responding to 'How much sex in marriage?' on a Singleness post might be stretching the boundaries of love and sensitivity and so i decided to deal with is directly as a separate post... [singles are welcome to read, because maybe this will help]. So the comment i received is below, [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-02T16:20:19+02:00April 22nd, 2013|challenging thorts, love and chocolate, marriage|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Singleness – meet Alexa O S Russell aka ‘Is there space for Bridget Jones at church?’

Lex: Being single in a world and a community where relationships are celebrated and held up in high regard can be incredibly difficult…particularly when your single status is not a conscious choice, but rather a default at this point in life! People chuckle (and relate!) when you refer to your self as having a Bridget Jones kind of moment – the moment where you want to eat yourself silly on chocolate, or drink too much [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-12T16:23:29+02:00April 12th, 2013|love and chocolate, relationships, shtupidt people, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Lars and the real girl church

so last nite tbV and i finally watched the movie 'Lars and the real girl' which had come highly recommended by our Philly friend Janell Anema and it was indeed well worth the watch. Ryan Gosling [who i have been completely against since he starred in 'The Notebook' which is a movie which irritated me beyond belief for reasons that most people don't really care much about] is phenomenal as Lars, who is a likeable [...]

By brettfish|2013-03-24T19:04:36+02:00March 24th, 2013|and other animals., challenging thorts, church, God stuff, people, what i am watching|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Cancer [specifically to friends of cancer sufferers] – Meet Heather Martin

Heather Martin is the wife of Robert Anthony Martin, who i met at a protest in Philly that was against an outdoor feeding ban in 2012, and she has agreed to let me use this blog post that she made which deals really well with this aspect... The No-No List by Heather Martin from her blog 'Not Quite Right: Faith - Life - Common Sense' which can be found here. 'For those of you who [...]

By brettfish|2013-03-22T01:55:54+02:00March 22nd, 2013|challenging thorts, change the world, inspire-ations, Taboo Topics|0 Comments