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| Britain |
| Bishop asks for crap |
| 2003-12-13 |
| Sometimes the jokes write themselves. A BISHOP wants his clergy to produce buckets of manure in church at Christmas-time, to remind people that Jesus was born in a stable full of mess. The Bishop of Horsham, the Rt Revd Lindsay Urwin, said on Wednesday that producing a bucket of manure from the vestry, and wafting it around to fill the church with the aroma, would remind people that Jesus gave his life to clearing up the mess men and women had made. It could also help high-church clergy who wanted to introduce incense, Bishop Urwin said, since the parishoners might âembraceâ the smell of incense as a way of clearing the other smell from the church. Letâs see. So far, Iâve got: "Theyâre C of E, arenât they? A yearâs sermons ought to work just fine." "Colin. Run down to the bookstore and buy anything you can find by Rowan Williams." "No problem. Frank Griswoldâs stuff is online. |
| Posted by:Christopher Johnson |