Today’s News in Limerick Form, #4

A face from the Old Middle East
in the lid of a breakfast-time feast?
Is he saying, I ponder,
to this family in Rhondda:
“Beware of the Pharisees’ yeast”?

Suggest a sermon topic

So I’ve agreed to take part in a series of midweek lunchtime services elsewhere in the Circuit next month. The series theme: ‘Questions we don’t often hear in sermons’.

I gather that my colleagues have already snapped up the opportunity to explain whether God swears, why God won’t help us win the lottery, and whether there are slugs in heaven.

Since they’ve chosen all the obvious topics, what burning question do you think I should preach on? Suggestions welcome!

Update: In the absence of any better suggestions (well, any suggestions actually), I’m going to go with “Would Jesus watch Big Brother?”

Clerical dress

Well I’ve never seen a bishop’s mitre that looks like this before.

I can see how the chin-strap might come in handy, but I wonder whether it’s just a little too Jean-Paul Gaultier for the Church of England.

Full story here.

Obiter dictum

BBC News reports that a man has been convicted of assaulting two cousins, one of whom had founded a “Jedi church”, while they were playing with light sabres in their garden. The villain posed as Darth Vader (well, he wore a bin bag), jumped over the wall and whacked the victims with a crutch.

Earlier, when [the accused] failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: “I hope the force will soon be with him.”

Classic. Who says judges don’t do pop culture?