Must Know Stories About Trendy Vicars
HERE comes the god-awful trendy vicar.
The Rev Robert Harrison has written a book - Must Know Stories, contains retellings of ten Bible stories.
The modern vicar is a marketing man in dog collar (or God Tags) and turned-up black jeans. If Satan could devise a figure more likely to cause humanity to run screaming into his arms Anorak has yet to find it; and, yes, we’ve seen Anthea Turner and Noel Edmonds at work.
In his tome, Rob says Goliath was a celebrity binge drinker, Eve a sex-obsessed man-eater and Noah’s wife wants to kill him.
Says Bobby: “They should know them - not as a matter of religion but as a matter of cultural education. I wanted to write a book that tells the most important Bible stories in a way that relishes them rather than tries to make any particular religious point. After all, who knows what the point is?
Always good when a religious figure says religion doesn’t matter. It puts Anorak in mind of the patient asking his doctor if it hurts. “Only when I laugh,” says the doctor. “And when you’re screaming in agony for your damned, disbelieving soul”…
March 27th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Give me a vicar in a hand knitted chunky sweater, playing a guitar.
Give me a gun.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
…when these religious types start to think for themselves, it all goes horribly wrong….
March 28th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
wouldn’t say trendy myself, but it does make you think that there is more to a ‘happy clappy’ bible story.
Real life is afterall grittier which is what get stripped out of the bible for sunday school kids stories - at which point it then becomes forgetton and only the headlines remembered. sound like the ‘trendy’ vicar is getting Back to basics (no political pun intened there).