Emerging Churches

Or was that "fresh expressions of church".... anyway that doesn't matter because we only label stuff so we can domesticate it or consign it to the model/theory basket!!

This post is actually about a very good book in a readable style that canvasses some history, comment from people involved and some simple explanations of what does or might shape the future of the church...

More as I continue to read...

Book available from Martin at Kentigern Resources
http://www.kentigern.com.au/

"No worries mate!"

"So Where the Bloody Hell are You?"

So how come there's an outcry at a bikini wearing model asking this question in an Aussie OS advertising campaign compared to the blokey "If you Drink and Drive You're a Bloody Idiot!"
More on this in coming days... and in the words of several ute driving aussies...
"Bugger!"

Brilliant Sojourners Article

Following on from the "Conversations with Brian McLaren" last weekend and the release of his new book about "Jesus Secret Message".... is an article on Sojourners website!!

Lat year I used: Jesus "Who Do You Say That I Am?" and "What Jesus talked most about" as central to a number of talks, camps and resources.... I am excited to read aspects of McLaren's latest work which looks even more accessible than Ched Myers "Binding the Strong Man"!!

Read the article here:
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0603&article=060310

Bono article in Last Saturdays SMH Good Weekend

For those in Oz there was a decent interview of Bono in the SMH Good Weekend [not online]. It was a catch up phone call between Bono and his recent journo author collaborator Machka Assayas, on the book of rolling intreviews of him... a laboured and self indulgent book on the part of the journo... yet a couple of gem quotes contained within!!

39 Sleeps until U2 in Sydney!!

Lara Croft

Meet the new Lara Croft
By smh.com.au February 15, 2006

Karima Adebibe has been chosen as the new international face of Lara Croft.
Move over Angelina Jolie.
An unknown sales assistant has been chosen as the new face of Lara Croft, the action hero and possibly the most recognised name in video games.
Karima Adebibe, a 20-year-old from London, was chosen from thousands of hopefuls, and will now embark on a gruelling training programme to prepare her for the role.
The announcement was made in London on Valentine's Day - Lara Croft's birthday and the the 10th anniversary of Tomb Raider.

Are They Splitsville!!

Amongst the earth shatteringly vital topics we're following here... are Tom and Katie finsihed all bar the birth of their child?

47 Sleeps to U2 in Sydney!!

Compilation CD in the Car!!

Ken Gets a Makeover

Millions of teenage girls distraught when the news broke that Ken and Barbie were having time apart will have renewed hope after Ken returned during the major US Toy Fair this week.
Effected by the massive popularity of the Bratz dolls [let me tell you they are hugely popular despite their disturbingly removable feet] Mattel hope this move will liven up sales in the coming year.
No news yet on a reconciliation though Barbie is reportedly appreciative of Ken's new buff and fashion conscious appearance!!

atu2.com Interview with Eugene Petersen

There's a great interview with Eugene Petersen [author of 'The Message'] having agreed to listen to U2s two latest albums and discuss why he sees them as prophetic and terrific despite not really being into their music.
Check it out here:
http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=4232

There are also plenty of places to catch the transcript or footage of Bono's input at the US National Prayer Breakfast [CNN, Sojourners]

Unrelaible Ideas # 28 Day Camping

Day Camping is about building on all the value of temporary Christian community with the need to necessarily travel to a venue and pay site costs for staying over. It aleviates night supervision leadership needs and allows for attenders who can't be part of the whole program.

A day camp could be a one day program packed with activity or anything up to four days or more with individual activity planned for each. For example with the luxury of something like the Gold Coasts Theme Parks, some groups have visited 3 or 4 across a holiday period or weekend.

In isolated or low income areas this is an affordable way to provide programs on a church or community site and can be tailored to suit your group size and context.

A Typical Weekend Day Camp:

Friday Night
Sausage Sizzle and Salads at the Hall
Icebreakers and mixing games
Maybe swimming or go karts

Saturday
Swimming
Wide Games
Speaker
Small Groups or Learning Groups
Meals
Worship if the group will relate to that/Reflection or Focus time perhaps

Giant Pictionary

Theatre Sports

Outdoor Movie

Sunday
Small or Learning Groups
Bushwalk or Team Challenges of Cooperation or Initiative Games
Huge Meal to finish with Photo and Thankyou's
Closing Activity

Each night kids go home rather than stay onsite. You can register for the whole program or individual days or sessions at leaders discretion. This balances community building against making the action accessible to kids who work, do lots of homework or play sports etc.

Many groups still do the individual day where the activity might be rounded out with a sharing of stories and focus time at the end of the day [sometimes but not always a more overt time of sharing faith and chalenging campers to respond].

Other possibilities:
Bushwalk for a Day
Mountain Bikes
Fundraising, Odd Jobs, Slave Auction
Clean Up Australia Day
Piggy back on another event like a Youth Alive or local concert
Abseiling
Lent and Advent Workshops leading to participation in worship
Guest Speakers
Sports Clinics
Playstation or X Box party
Cooking
Craft
Drama, storyteller, magician
Chalk Chase
Scavenger Hunt
and ...

Row M Seat 30 "Keeping Mum"

SPOILERS BELOW
This carefully cast black comedy was a great choice for Sydney's OpenAir Cinema in January.
Rowan Atkinson plays the dithering and preoccupied local vicar [Rev Goodfellow] in a village of 57 residents. Meanwhile his wife is being swayed by the local golf pro [Patrick Swayze] and his kids are travelling under the radar. His daughter has a string of unique boyfriends whose names he muddles up and his son is being mercilessly bullied at school.
Thats all until the arrival of 'Grace' the new housekeeper!!

Some will find the film slow or lacking in good hearty laughs... but it is funny, its just black!
Transplanted from an original screenplay set in the US, this film only works because of the british stiffness so funnily evident.

It's a very clever look at: relationships; family; transitions; and more subtly the nature of grace.
The impact of non judgemental affirmation and a few slight of hand solutions pave the way for this family to come back together in unexpected ways!!

I felt the audience at large were comforted by and amused by this snapshot of 'the church and faith and their interplay' while I found an extra level of sharpness in the depiction.

Rated M 103 Minutes

Grammy's Run and Won!!

Check all the results here
http://www.grammy.com/

The Grammys are always an interesting window on US music culture with Kanye West, Mariah Carey and Mary J Blighe featured large alongside Madge herself [Madonna]!!
U2 of course picked up 5 Grammys and you can catch all the live performances on Oz TV Friday Night on TEN!!
Includes U2 backing up Mary J singing 'One' which features on her current album 'Breakthrough"and Madonna with the Gorillaz!!
Pop culture nuts will see our Nicole front and centre alongside winner Keith Urban!!

The 100 Worst Films Ever Made

http://www.thestinkers.com/100stinkers.html

A recent news article reminded me of this website and idea!
Here's the Top Ten Worst Films Ever Made as Voted in an Extensive Poll!!
[I find it hard to disagree...]

1. Battlefield Earth
2. Wild Wild West
3. Batman and Robin
4. Howard the Duck [I did laugh a few times]
5. Spice World [must be a close run thing in the Top 5
6. Speed 2: Cruise Control
7. It's Pat
8. Showgirls
9. The Blair Witch Project
10. Waterworld
11. Jaws 4: The Revenge
12. The "Look Who's Talking" sequels
13. Grease 2
14. The Avengers
15. Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls
16. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot
17. Anaconda
18. Godzilla [1998]
19. Barb Wire
20. Ishtar

If you ask me they forgot:
The Piano
Titanic
Spaceballs
All of Stephen Seagal's films
Eyes Wide Shut
Days of Thunder

RED A New Global Initiative

RED
Looks like a logical extension of the wristband idea to me but quite a brilliant strategy and cooperation!!
Bono has launched the Global Development Fund initiative that involves consumers buying a range of RED products [to be progressively launched] that will benefit AIDS and other illnesses in Africa. Spookily for non fashionitstas and fairwear advocates two of the first products will be a red no fees Amex Card and an African design pair of Chuck Taylor Converse shoes. Whatever works?
Check it out here...

http://www.joinred.com/products.asp

From U2.com
Seeing RED
Bono has launched Product RED, a global brand which will raise funds to fight AIDS in Africa. It’s not philanthropy, he said, but ‘doing good, will turn out to be doing good business.’The launch of RED took place in Davos, Switzerland today, when Bono and Bobby Shriver joined with American Express, Gap, Converse and Giorgio Armani to unveil the T-shirts, shoes, sunglasses and credit card which are the first items in the new line.
A portion of profits from the sale of RED products will support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tubercolosis and Malaria, particularly programmes in Africa with a focus on women and children.
Bono warned that the world was losing the fight against HIV/Aids - with 6,500 Africans dying of the disease every day -and that RED is a commercial venture and not philanthropy. ‘Philanthropy is like hippy music, holding hands,’ he said. ‘Red is more like punk rock, hip hop, this should feel like hard commerce.’American Express will launch its no-fee RED Amex card in the UK promising that at least 1% of every pound spent will go to the global fund.
Gap will bring a range of RED-branded T-shirts, made in Africa, into US and UK shops, with more products later in the year.
Converse are putting out a range of limited edition Chuck Taylor All Star shoes, while designer Giorgio Armani unveiled sunglasses with plans for clothing, accessories, watches, perfumes and jewellery.
Professor Richard Feachem, Executive Director, the Global Fund described RED as ‘a breakthrough in corporate and consumer engagement for the greatest global crisis of our time – the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
’‘RED can make a substantial contribution to financing the massive scale up of prevention, testing, treatment and care that are desperately needed in Africa.’ he said.
"RED is a 21st century idea.’ added Bono. ‘It's an amazing thing that these companies are doing - lending their creativity and financial firepower to the Global Fund's fight against AIDS in Africa, the greatest health crisis in 600 years.
I think doing the RED thing, doing good, will turn out to be good business for them.’

Triple J Hottest 100 2006

"Wish You Well" from Bernard Fannings [previously recommended here solo album] "Tea and Sympathy" topped this years poll on national youth radio network Triple J. Fanning held Ben Lee's "Catch My Disease" to cast another chapter in their interesting relationship over the last couple of years.
The album includes tracks from its folk/blues/rock style about relationship, seperation, redemption, hope and cleansing. As a PK "Wash Me Clean" [also mentoned here many times] would make dad proud!!

Showing their usually discerning taste 600,000+ voters included 50% local acts including Wolfmother with 6 songs in the hundred [a record].

Australia's top songs as voted by 606,060 Triple J listeners.
1. Wish You Well, Bernard Fanning
2. Catch My Disease, Ben Lee
3. Feel Good Inc, Gorillaz
4. Best of You, Foo Fighters
5. Dare, Gorillaz
6. Mind's Eye, Wolfmother
7. My Doorbell, White Stripes
8. O Yeah, End of Fashion
9. Joker and the Thief, Wolfmother
10. Do You Want To, Franz Ferdinand

No doubt Bernard's title relates to the 1956 film "Tea and Sympathy" starring Deborah Kerr as the Head Masters wife attempting to help young student Tommy Lee battle the barbs of other students who question his masculinity and sexuality, calling him "sissy-boy". It's an adaptation of a Broadway stage play.

As such the themes of someone misunderstood, fumbling, unsure and disappointed fit with the mood and lyrics of many of the songs.

The DEAD POOL

At the Cricket Test Match in Sydney this year Day Two was a terribly slow day. Perhaps Kerry Packers recent demise got people thinking and before we knew it a group of my friends and acquantances had hatched a competition which will run for the next twelve months. I know some people will be horrified... such is the nature of these things!!
We have all parted with $5 [not really a significant part of the activity] and entered a list of TEN names of people we think might DIE in the next YEAR... winner with most correct names will take the cash!!

New ABC Radio 702 breakfast announcer Adam Spencer was at the end of our row and I think was equally mortified, amused and wickedly inspired!! Despite taking several hours to finally cave in and craft an entry he wisely declined [first scratching out all the Aussies and then being left with only a few ideas]. Good decision I feel!! Any note could end up on eBay and imagine if Gough Whitlam or equivalent died and within 24 hours the story emerged that Adam Spencer had him on a competition list... I'd hate to be page one with that story instead of Gough!!

So, here's my list [apologies to all concerned]:
Cricketer Bill Brown
Vice President Dick Cheney
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Legend Nelson Mandela [I hope not but you'd kick yourelf if he wasn't on your list]
Cuban Leader Fidel Castro
Morag from Home and Away [what a shame she only hit her head this week]
Political journo Laurie Oakes
Actor Robert Downey Jnr [I really hope he doesn't fall off the wagon]
Actress Blythe Danner [Meet the Fockers. mother of Gwyneth Paltrow
Baseballer Barry Bonds [home run king with drug allegations and bat corking rumours]

I feel I could have done better BUT time was of the essence... I did enjoy Geoff's entry of Harry Potter!! Had I thought longer I would have included Shelley Winters and been up 1 nil already. I considered Humphrey B Bear already gone [just Carols and Supermarket appearances without a show is no future for mute bear!!

Mind you, after all the 'on the day' entries were in one participant wished he could recant his list having remembered and exclaimed "OH, NO... THE BALI NINE!!" But Indonesian justice is slow and even if found guilty the sentence might not be carried out this year!! Is that a step too far? You're probably right!!

Anyhow, I am pleased to hear that Ariel Sharon is doing so well [no realy I am] and imagine my interest when Dick Cheney went to hospital with heart flutters!!

Watch out for the website...

Worship Unplugged # 34 Wading Pool

Have ben wanting to try this for ages....
At our Summer Camp we used [albeit Donald Duck themed] a blow up wading pool filled with water to symbolise recconnecting with God via the sensation of being washed clean or having cleansing water poured out of a jug, over your arm, running through the fingers, crossing yourself or whatever made sense without mess.

It was not a guilt response but a symbol of God's love that "washes us clean" in good relationship.

The soundtrack for this brief time was "Wash Me Clean" by Bernard Fanning from his solo album "Tea & Sympathy." Brilliant !!

You could use this to: clean dirty stones, trace a prayer by letters with your finger on the surface of the water, float flowers or paper notes on the surface... or even as happened with our youngest daughter Ellie... use the water for christening etc!!

Worship Unplugged # 33 Air Drying Clay

At a recent Camp we had used Playdoh* on an earlire day so a creative variation was to invite punters to shape a symbol they could keep beyond the week. By moulding air drying clay the symbols could be left out overnight and taken home the next day!!
It's available at toystores, hobby shops and art suppliers at a reasonable cost.

The Great Escape Festival, Newington Armoury

www.thegreatescape.net.au

With Sigur Ros now announced to join Silverchair, Bernard Fanning etc this new festival is sounding HUGE!! There's the river, artspace, drama and lots of other espects of festival life beyond music.
The innovative site is at the back of the Sydney Olympic site on a former armoury. The Festival includes Camping and Day Visit tickets. [$200 the weekend $70 for single days].

I mention it because colleague [Darren] had talked in the lead up to a previous Easter about the idea of camping with a group of young adults at 'The East Coast Blues and Roots Festival'. The idea would be to breakfast and spend a relaxed morning together in community for worship, discussion, reflection, action of being mindful or Easter and of your experience of the weekend at hand... great idea in theory!! A great context to explore the life and faith issues for this age group ina very typical activity!!

The Great Escape opens up a Sydney opportunity where no UCA regional Easter Camp exists and many of the performers plan to hop between both Festivals!!

Someone should do something about this idea!!
April 14-16 2006

2006 What to Look Forward To

Just a few reminders of whats ahead culturally and newswise for 2006:

[3] State Elections here in Australia with Labor favoured all round
In March John Howard will celebrate 10 years as PM [he appears not to be done yet]
The sale of T3 Telstra
Continued dabbling in the social agenda by the Feds e.g. RU486, divorce rate, education

"Kangaroo" the young danish bub will be christened on 21 January
Feb/March Verdicts against the "Bali Nine"
5 March Clean Up Australia Day [get involved at a local key site]
28 April 10th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre carried out by Martin Bryant
11 September 5th anniversary of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon attacks plus Flight 93
19 October hsc exams begin in NSW

24 January Commonwealth Games Baton Relay
10 February Rugby Super 14 Kicks Off
10-26 February Winter Olympics [more re-runs of Stephen Bradbury's amazing win!!]
15-26 March Commonwelth Games in Melbourne [yawn!!]
9 June to 9 July World Cup Football from Germany
June-September International Rugby
June
10/11 v England [Sydney]
17 v England [Melbourne]
24 v Ireland [Perth]
July
8 v All Blacks [Christchurch]
15 v South Africa [Brisbane]
29 v All Blacks [Brisbane]
August
5 v South Africa [Sydney]
19/20 v All Blacks [Auckland]
September
v South Africa [vtbc]

23 September AFL Grand Final [tbc]
1 October NRL Grand Final

7 November Melbourne Cup
Nov-Jan The ASHES

January/February various Open Air/Outdoor Cinemas in Parks etc around the country
personal favourite is the OpenAir at Mrs Macquarie's Chair on Sydney Harbour [have been attending since it began]
16 January Golden Globe Awards
February TV ratings return
5 March The 78th Academy Awards [Oscars]
31 March Small Irish Folk Group touring Oz [U2]
14-16 April The Great Escape Festival and East Coast Blues and Roots
18 May international release of "The Da Vinci Code" film by Spielberg starring Uncle Tom
26 June Coldplay hit Sydney
October ARIAs 20th anniversary though little know Oz band from Sydney's northern beaches may be inducted into Hall Of Fame at second annual Dinner to be possibly held in March this year [Midnight Oil]

Mambo Clothing Still Kicking in with Social Comment

Mambo t-shirts are available in response to the dreadful events on our Sydney beaches last month. The Mambo "No Hate" t-shirts raise money for local charities fighting racism and violence.

Unreliable Idea # 28 Kanga Cricket

Games that encourage participation are springing up in all sports: tryrugby; minileague... etc BUt amongst the first in Oz was Kanga Cricket. Cricket Australia commissioned a set of plastic cricket equipment and I purchased a set in 1990 for $90. There were two sets of stumps, two bats and I ordered several of the yellow rubber balls. It was designed so that unlike a tennis ball the rubber ball would only bounce as high as a cricket ball and be easier for the novice to hit. Its the lunchtime entertainment at the Test Cricket but is also played in primary schools across the country. It realy opened up the game to the novice, girls and kids frightened of the ball. They included a hitting tee for youngre kids and now produce bats with rubber grips and bigger size.

A set can be doubled to play rounders or four wicket grids with a central bowler and it provides hours of fun!! Many a bus trip has been enhanced with a quick whip out of the cricket set in the park for a twenty to forty minute hit. Youth Groups, Kids Clubs etc could buy several sets and get quite a number of kids involved at once. Start four games and rotate teams, set up four wickets and one central bowler. Batters rotate around the four wickets when a run is hit and new batters race to guard their stumps by replacing anyone who gets out BUT the bowler can bowl once they have the ball!!
Kookaburra and others now manufacture kits and many are available at K-Mart.

TV in 2006

While "Veronica Mars" continues to be the only show I watch all summer here in Oz [besides wall to wall cricket and tennis] there are a few offerings to look forward to in 2006!!

Saw this one previewed on "the Tonight Show":
"My Name is Earl"
Looks like it will appeal to my draw and willing to be escapingly entertained sense of humour. Earl Hickey is a petty thief who wins and loses $100,000 and sees it as proof of karma. So he sets out to right every wrong he's ever committed. Latest of the earthy middle to working class America series...

"Commander in Chief" with Geena Davis is already in full promo mode.
Described as more relationships than politics it means her job is the end of comparisons with West Wing [which will please many by moving to ABC TV]

No doubt "Desperate Housewives" will continue to shine in 2006!!
It's still kind of 'Six Feet Under' meets 'Ally McBeal' and so is an acquired taste

"The OC"
There's not much else to rival this teen market winner!!
Though the cast seem to appear more in the gossip pages than in the TV Guide these days!!

Hold your Poppers and Fireworks!!

New Year's Day to be delayed by a second
Courtesy Nine MSN
Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds.

Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first "leap second" in seven years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation.
The adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight Coordinated Universal Time, the widely adopted international standard, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology said this week.
"Enjoy New Year's Eve a second longer," the institute said in an explanatory notice. "You can toot your horn an extra second this year."

Coordinated Universal Time coincides with winter time in London.
At midnight (11am AEDT), atomic clocks will read 23:59:60 before rolling over to all zeros.
A leap second is added to keep uniform timekeeping within 0.9 second of the Earth's rotational time, which can speed up or slow down because of many factors, including ocean tides.
The first leap second was added on June 30, 1972, according to the institute.
Since 1999 until recently, the two time standards have been in close enough synch to escape any need to add a leap second, it said.
Although it is possible to have a negative leap second - that is, a second deducted from Coordinated Universal Time - so far all have been add-ons, reflecting the Earth's general slowing trend due to tidal breaking.
Deciding when to introduce a leap second is the responsibility of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, a standards-setting body. Under an international pact, the preference for leap seconds is December 31 or June 30.
Precise time measurements are needed for high-speed communications systems among other modern technologies.

Following such US icons as Rudi Gulliani 

TIME People of the Year

You products of the 80s out there might be keen to know that...

Bono, Bill, Melinda: TIME People of the Year
'For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year.'TIME Magazine has named Bono, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates as their 'Persons of the Year' for 2005.
In its December 19th issue, out today, Managing Editor James Kelly said the three had been chosen as the people most effective at finding ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria in Africa, HIV and AIDS and the grinding poverty that kills 8 million people a year.'When you look at the number of people who die from the kind of diseases and poverty that the Gates' and Bono are fighting, the death tolls are far greater than what occurs in natural disasters or wars,' Kelly said.The founder of computer giant Microsoft and his wife were named for their work in the Gates Foundation, the world's biggest charity with a $29 billion endowment, while Bono was described as the 'rocker who has made debt reduction sexy.''Bono charmed and bullied and morally blackmailed the leaders of the world's richest countries into forgiving $40 billion in debt owed by the poorest,' said Time.Bono said he was ' experiencing an unusual feeling. I think it's called being humbled.' 'There are a lot of people who could be here. What's really key is, all of us are in agreement that this can be a generation that can end extreme poverty. And by that we mean stupid, daft poverty where 3,000 kids are dying every day of a mosquito bite in Africa. Malaria. We can fix stuff like that. That's the kind of feelings I'm having right now.'The Gates Foundation funds hundreds of projects around the world primarily focussed on public health, from vaccinating children to developing new drugs, as well as educational programs and scholarships in the United States and abroad. Bono explained how his work with DATA and the One Campaign had been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates.'They have been our patrons since early on.' he said. 'A lot of people don't know that. Though we are coming from very different places, we are in agreement that this can be a generation that can eradicate extreme poverty. That's not a kind of wishful thinking, that's not misty-eyed rock star nonsense. This is a hardheaded business guy, and science based person. 'The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been researching vaccines and really getting into the detailed work on how to achieve this. These are achievable goals. I'm a mouthpiece. I'm a rock star. I'm a very lucky man. But it's the tough stuff that will get this done, not the bleeding heart brigade.'

HOLIDAYS!!!!

Hi All...
Despite plenty of material gathered in recent weeks nothing has made it to here...
I am on holidays for several weeks either side of Summer Camp in January and you may still find some pop culture musings here BUT strictly work stuff will have to wait until 2006!!

Have a great Christmas!!

Expect a visually stunning show!! 

U2 Sold Out

As U2 tickets probably sold out in about 15-20 mins this morning it seems that other shows will [as suspected] be added... but they're a bit slow jumping in. It was a lot of fun hearing from a variety of people this morning and sharing a laugh or the exasperation of what still proves to be "the biggest damn rock band in the world".... if you like that sort of music!!

I am working on a "Raking Over the Trash" pop culture resource edition to coincide with the Tour next year and will finish my young adult targeted Study and Discussion Guide by then!! [yeah sure!!]

Here's hoping my ticketing method worked out OK... I didn't hear about nay problems!!

For those unsure of a second show who missed out... try your local bus tour company... Foggs and Kings in Newcastle are definitely running buses!!

"...Take these hands Teach them what to carry, take these hands don’t make a fist,
Take this mouth, so quick to criticise, take this mouth give it a kiss..." Yahweh U2 HTDAAB