Lego into the world and make disciples of all nations

Here's a faithful rendering of the last supper, Lego style, by Italian artist Udronotto.

With an impressive array of Lego recreations on his Flickr page, it won't be too long before Crimewatch sign him up to do their reconstructions.

Speaking of crime, Udronotto seemed to have stolen the idea from someone else in the first place...

Goodbye Shambo?

Following on from last week's sanctus1 it seems that shambo's days are numbered...

Changes - this Sunday

Sanctus1 invites you to join us in worship…

Changes

Sunday 22nd July at 8pm
Sacred Trinity, Chapel St (off Deansgate), Salford


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A post about, um, you know, heh heh, er, um ... sex

At Sanctus 1 this week, our groups looked at four news stories, and asked probing* questions about the media's attitude to religion.

The stories were:

- Shambo the TB-infected bull and the battle by Welsh Hindus to save the sacred animal;

- The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles paying out hundreds of millions of pounds to sexual abuse victims;

- A teenager losing her fight to wear a saving-sex-for-marriage ring in school;

- A gay youth worker winning a tribunal case against the Church Of England.

Personally, I'm glad the catholics are paying out to the poor victims. I'm delighted the youth worker has exposed the church's appalling attitude to gay people. I'm pleased the teenager has lost her "right" to flout school policy. I think I'm happy about Shambo being saved, but then again I'm not a farmer.

However, my fellow Sanctimonian and occasional train buddy Myn made a good point when we were chatting about this yesterday: Why, oh why, oh why are all the Christian stories to do with sex?

Have we not enlightened ourselves? Are we still so nervous as a religion about the Bible and, um, you know, naughty stuff? Is it safe yet for me to remove my chastity belt?

*no innuendo intended, honest

Steeple does a Jack-Jack, police move in 'like nutters'

Baptists have come under fire from God, as you can see in this rather startling piccie.

Lightning zapped the steeple of the First Mount Olive Free Willy Baptist Church earlier this week. Well, okay, it's 'Free Will' not 'Free Willy' but I think the latter is funnier and I will be writing to tell them so.

Bishop Oscar E Brown was inside the building when God struck. "We heard a thump, but we didn't think anything of it." He continued his meeting inside the church while the steeple flamed like the baby from The Incredibles.

Police were hunting for a murderer nearby (this is America remember), but broke off to warn people inside the church of their impending doom. "Some church members peeked from windows and looked at us as if we were a bunch of nuts trying to break in," said one officer.

The steeple collapsed into the church (true). The whole building exploded while the congregation and a plucky dog jumped to safety just in the nick of time (false).

So next time you are condemning someone to burn in hell, just remember there are God-fearing Christians burning in Baltimore too.

Good on you Gordon.

I, for one, am pleased that there is to be a review of the super casino plans for East Manchester, and that the talk is that the proposal is 'dead in the water'. The BBC reports that Manchester MP's and the city council are not that pleased. East Manchester MP Graham Stringer said that the people of Manchester would not be happy; this person from Manchester is happy!

Huh?

Can anyone help? What does this mean?

The 35-storey tower and a smaller 7-storey block has been christened
‘Gravity’ to reflect the development of the area as a desirable residential
zone.

Now, I know I was educated under the old system whereby facts had relevance, rather than how they made us feel. But I always thought that gravity had something to do with mass, acceleration, and Newtonian physics, having something to do with planets and fundamental forces and is calculable by a natty formula:

Yup, another "iconic" development is heading our way. Joy.

Chorlton Beer Festival: a Fresh Expression of Church?

The Third Chorlton Beer Festival is happening this weekend. As ever, it is at St Clement's church, in Chorlton and will be attended by "churched" and "unchurched" alike. Now, I know people from both of these "communities" who would be opposed to a beer fesival at a church: where the emphasis in that sentence lies, depends on which group you are in... Interestingly, those who are there don't seem to mind either way.

There's a hogroast too.

End of the story? Sony says "sorry"

Just an update on an oh-so-last-month story that some who visit here regularly might be interested in - Manchester Evening News reported on Friday that Sony has said "sorry" to the cathedral for its use in a video game...


On a slight aside, I do find it interesting to see which stories live on in the media for a long time, which get followed up some time later, and which get quietly forgotten.


technorati tag: manchester cathedral, sony

Heaven and Earth Show

I'm going to be on the heaven and earth show on Sunday. They filmed me today at Nexus. I'm a bit nervous about it as I'm not sure how it'll come across. It's meant to be a bit polemical so hopefully that will come across well. It's a response to a piece by Terry Waite that'll appear in The Daily Mail on Saturday.

I'm also quite cautious about some of their camera shots...I may be seen as a bit wacky! I'm gonna be portrayed as the young crazy one and he'll be the institutional man.