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By: I’m A Subversive Blog « Missio Dei

I’m A Subversive Blog « Missio Dei — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:24:43 +0000

[...] The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus by Jon Birch (e.g., Hamster Wheel Church) [...]

By: Tom C

Tom C — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:50:32 +0000

Forgot to add that while hamster (most breeds anyway) are largely solitary, Gerbils are very social always supporting and working together. interesting. I think I know what i’m preaching on next Friday!
Gerbil Christians!

By: jonbirch

jonbirch — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:42:15 +0000

the gerbils sound fantastic tom.

By: Tom C

Tom C — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:09:14 +0000

When i saw this cartoon I thought of the various hamsters myself and my siblings owned over the years, give em a wheel and they’d run for hours. going nowhere but seemingly happy. We’d also put them on the stairs; step by step up they’d run. i often wondered why they never turned round and went down.

Then i got gerbils.
(no it wasn’t infectious! - sorry, sounded like a disease!)

First thing i discovered is they weren’t interested in the wheel, they tried it few times then gave up and set themselves to figuring out escape routes. Tried the stair thing, thought it would be fun to race them. no luck, they’d go up a couple. stop, go down a couple and stop and investigate looking for other, more productive options. They escaped fairly often, I’d find them in the morning sitting by their tank waiting to be put back in so they could sleep off their adventures.

Got me thinking.

do we have a hamster faith? blindly running hard ‘the one and only true way’ never stopping to look and see the world around us.

or do we have a Gerbil faith? Curious, exploring, dangerous at times (there was a cat in the house) asking questions and always looking for opportunities.

interesting. thanks Jon.

By: Elyong

Elyong — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:49:05 +0000

This is how i really felt about our church… i wish i could put this in our multi-media projector for everybody to see.

By: Carole

Carole — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:22:31 +0000

Yeah, but she’s dead cute, too!

By: jonbirch

jonbirch — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:19:23 +0000

alice sounds dead cocky to me!

By: Carole

Carole — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:16:32 +0000

In our house, Alice the hamster goes for broke on her wheel and then suddenly stops and stands still on her hind legs as the wheel rocks from side to side like some little skater dude. Proper little poser she is.

Oh, that life were so simple…

By: jonbirch

jonbirch — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:36:11 +0000

thanks mimosa!

there is some great hamster wheel footage on youtube. a brilliant one where the wheel keeps going and the hamster rotates with it many times before getting launched. i gather this is fairly common with hamsters in wheels.

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:23:32 +0000

Gilly(#10), due caution when abruptly stopping hamster-wheels. One can get tossed about rather violently until the inertia is spent.

AND, when perceiving one’s congregation on that wheel, please confirm that it is, in fact, the congregation, rather than simply oneself.