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God’s Insurmountable Love « Muffinmn0302’s Weblog — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:27:06 +0000

[...] to earth to let us know how much he cares. Jesus came to the marginalised and stood with us. He came to the outcasts and stood with us. The Archbishop of Canterbury puts it like this in his Christmas [...]

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[...] Who’ll sit next to the man who smells. [...]

By: jonbirch

jonbirch — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:33:29 +0000

thanks david… it’s a good idea.

By: David Keen

David Keen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:06:57 +0000

Great cartoon.

Is there a ‘Who’ll…….? Jesus will’ series on the way? Just an idea….

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Cartoon: Obdachloser in der Gemeinde » Schrotty - think about — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:58:06 +0000

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By: jonbirch

jonbirch — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:13:41 +0000

i agree with your sentiments carole.

btw. sadly i’ve seen far too little of curb your enthusiasm.

By: Carole

Carole — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:02:19 +0000

You know, Jon, this is a bit of an unsavoury conversation but you made a good point about saying the tough stuff when you love someone. You know that you are secure in your relationship when you are able to freely express, “Blimey, my feet stink, I’d better go and freshen up” or “That must have been an exciting football match judging by the pungent aroma of testosterone in the atmosphere” Do you think there’ll be shower gel, anti-perspirant, foot spray, perfume, body spray, mouthwash etc in Heaven?

Re the middle class thing, I have often (being a bit on the cynical side) thought that Christianity is a middle class pursuit. This was heightened when I went to Spring Harvest, once. As a kid I dreamed of going to Butlins, but it was always too dear for my parents, so we would make do with a week in a caravan in North Wales. So it was bizarre to find myself there years later, long after the desire to be there had left me, having spent what seemed a vast sum for 4 days. The place seemed to be full of middle class vicars, ministers, pastors and their families (and favourite ‘church family’) all having jolly good fun “roughing it” in this working class holiday camp, competing with each other to see who had the dodgiest accommodation. Maybe it was my imagination. So much of Christianity seems to involve spending money, money that I’m sure, in a lot of cases, people who are skint feel that they just can’t afford and so feel alienated. I know this is not always the case and that some inner city churches do wonderful work and are involved in all aspects of the community. But it does sometimes seem to be a bit of a middle class club.

By the way, Subo, I love “Curb your Enthusiasm” particularly that episode. I feel so sorry for Larry, he is a real victim of circumstances and encounters with unreasonable people.

By: jonbirch

jonbirch — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:49:02 +0000

i was in the bank once, when a very large man came in and literally filled the place with rancid odour. it was very unpleasant. but i wondered why noone had ever told him. he was a man in a suit, seemed like a business man… maybe he had no sense of smell, that can be the case. but someone who loved him should have told him… maybe noone loved him like that… maybe that’s the real problem.

By: subo

subo — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:40:56 +0000

has anyone seen the Larry Davy episode, where he has a trouser crease?

By: Carole

Carole — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:35:35 +0000

I went to a baptism once at an Anglo-Catholic church. I gradually became aware of a heady base note of rancid body oils. So I think it was more clothes, long overdue for a good wash, rather than a smelly body. It actually made me feel ill (it wasn’t me, I hasten to add). Boy was I glad that I was in a ’smells and bells’ set up because the incense disguised it beautifully. As a Roman Catholic, I don’t get to smell incense much. These days we are restricted to a couple of times a year, in case we aggrevate somebody’s asthma (the modern epidemic?)

So, incense, that’s the answer to asymmetrical congregations…