Churches should try harder to make bald and overweight people feel welcome, according to new guidance that is being issued to clergy.
A Church of England book published this week says they should be regarded as worshippers with “special needs” alongside the blind, the deaf, breast-feeding mothers, very short people and readers of tabloid newspapers.
Well, some comment “very short people”? Dwarves? “Tabloid newspaper” readers?
4 responses so far ↓
1 wonderfulforhisage // Jul 26, 2009 at 10:19 am
Brilliant PR.
2 NickInNeuch // Jul 26, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Tim, I think “readers of tabloid newspapers” means people who update their information on Katie & Peter during the sermon. Your apparent misunderstanding reminds me of an old joke.
Optician: You must stop masturbating. Man: Why, is it making me go blind? Optician: No, but it’s annoying the other customers.
3 Merlin76 // Oct 22, 2009 at 12:27 pm
They were doing an egg-drop project, modeled after the Mars rovers, and their teacher had them each write questions to Steve Squyres about the rover mission. ,
4 Daddy59 // Oct 23, 2009 at 11:31 am
We come up with imaginative excuses to justify our avoidance, to confront our fear. ,
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