Everyone (at least among Church of England clergy) is getting into it using this site, or so it seems from the examples of Bishop Alan, Sam Norton, Maggi Dawn, Doug Chaplin, and my old friend Martin Jackson, plus a whole competition from Madpriest. So, not being one to miss a blogging bandwagon, I must show off my own example of this, and not just in an edit to an old post which hardly anyone will notice. To mark the day when the real Agnostibuses are off the road at least in London, here is the slogan written by a friend of mine for our church, as it would appear on the side of a bus:
Another offering from an Anglican priest, this time in Canada, together with one from a layman and one from a Lutheran “Candidate-Pastor” who calls himself “Doorman-Priest”. So at least mine is not the only non-priestly offering.
Two more Anglican clerics, David Keen and even the Ugley Vicar are into this one now, I see. So the idea has really crossed over from the liberal catholic to the evangelical world. I am still waiting for contributions from Paul Trathen (someone distracted today, I understand) and Tim Goodbody to complete my collection of bus images from every one of the Anglican clergy whose blogs I read.
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Two more amusing offerings from Polycarp. He is I think another layman, so I hope we don’t share the fate of King Uzziah for making non-priestly offerings (2 Chronicles 26:19-20).
My humble offerings to the discussion
http://theroadtoelderado.blogspot.com/2009/02/god-buses-choose-your-slogan.html
More offerings from the newfrontiers elder (is that equivalent to an Anglican presbyter/priest?) Blue, with a hint of amber. #4 is probably true of this comment, and #5 is about the funniest I have seen.
Peter, these are all hilarious. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Blue and Rhea, thanks for commenting. I hadn’t seen Blue’s own comment when I commented with the link to his page.
Thanks to Tim Chesterton for another priestly offering, from “Simple Massing Priest” Malcolm. Tim calls this “the best one I’ve seen yet”, and I agree!
Paul Trathen has succumbed to the bus fever, with this offering which is more what I would have expected from Sam Norton. Only Tim Goodbody is holding out, pleading that he has been “Been busy with parish stuff and snow”.
See my link for my next installment.
Paul Trathen has posted another bus image, and revealed publicly the reason for him being distracted as I noted in comment 202610 above, explaining why “babies are like buses”. Congratulations, Paul and Heather!
Thanks also to Blue for several more buses.
Love the roadtoelderado buses, some people have clearly got too much time on their hands with all this snow.
speaking of which
<a href=”http://ruletheweb.co.uk/b3ta/bus/?s1=DUE+TO+SNOW%2C+THERE%27S+PROBABLY+NO+BUSES&s2=ACT+OF+GOD%3F&s3=THAT+WOULD+BE+IRONIC”sorry, let me try that link again
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
David, I think you meant this. Great!
Phil Groom uses the side of a bus to comment on the SPCK/SSG bookshops disaster – and invites further entries.
See my entry to Phil Groom’s competition.
Cheers Peter; and here’s my answer to the Trinitarians: You wait thousands of years…