One of the inspirations for wecan.be was the suggestion from Kurt Vonnegutt that Christians should talk about the beattitudes more. He wrote that in a book called “A Man Without a Country”… and here, to save you buying it, is a pretty girl quoting her favourite passages:

The idea of giving up is generally repugnant to people working for social change. But in order to work for change well we need to give up many things along the way. Among the many things we need to give up along the way is all hope of a better past. Maybe things could have […]

as i arrived home just now, i realised that midnight had slipped past and it’s easter sunday. so i tossed my rock into the front yard, for my burdon has been lifted. half way through lent i went to a Dave Andrews ‘we can be’ talk. it was Really Quite Good. my best thing was […]

Hey I’ve written a couple of posts about my rock. and today i finally got around to finding the online version of the little book i’ve been carrying around. http://www.flickr.com/photos/10438551@N00/sets/72157594508507299/show/ start now, and you’ll still be able to follow the last quarter of the lenten reflections. more stuff at seeds.org.au

I’m still carrying my rock. I’m surprised at how many people just ignore it, or when i say “i’m carrying it around for lent”, just accept that and move on.  But i have had a few proper conversations. The best one was today, when someone suggested that i thought i was Without Sin, so i […]

Overcoming hatred using the instrument of love in the struggle for justice requires learning the disciplines of the heart. 1 : The discipline of grieving.1 If we are to learn to love in the midst of hate – or any other form of perfidy or duplicity – we need to grieve the tragedy of loving […]

So i’ve been carrying this rock around. it’s a pretty good one. fits nicely in my fist. a bit sparkly-crystal on one fact. worn and rounded on one side, flat and jagged on the side where i smashed it off the rock it was. it took me a couple of days to remember to keep […]

(andrew here, not Dave) I’ve been following the “Seeds for Lent” published by Mark Pierson and Urban Seed. Today it says The path through the wilderness can be rough. Even at night when it’s time to rest there is only rough ground to lie on. There is no break from the relentless harshness. Find a […]

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach

For as far back as there are written records of civilization, people have been fed the myth of “justified violence” from earliest childhood. The classic presentation of this myth is the story of the reluctant hero who resists his sacred duty, established by the gods, to defend the defenceless and protect the weak. In this […]

[remembered each year on Feb 6] Summary of information from web: This group of men died 410 years ago in 1597. The fruit of the missionary work of Frances Xavier and others, the 26 were arrested by Japanese government officials for preaching and were all crucified on a hill now known as the Holy mountain. […]

Now, ‘to treat others as we would like to be treated’ is, as we all know, not at all easy. But ‘to treat others as we would like to be treated’ when others have ’not treated us as we would like to be treated’ is excruciatingly difficult to do. Yet ‘treating others as we would […]