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June 7th, 2006

The Monastery Revisited

Tony, from ‘the Monastery Revisited’, on TV here in the UK this evening:

I’ve been to a few churches around town and they just annoy the **** out of me because they’re so fake, and the people look so lost, and the people on the stage just look so plastic and so charming and so seductive, and I just think ‘I don’t believe in these people’. These people are not an expression of faith. So, I’d much rather just slip into a church and sit there for 10 minutes and have a bit of quiet time, or pray at home. I dont feel that you necessarily have to turn up at a certain place at a certain time dressed in a certain way to express your faith and live out your faith. I think there’s other ways of doing it.

See also The Convent, same day and time next week.

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10 Responses to “The Monastery Revisited”


  1. Tiffer says:

    Dave who actually said the above quote? I read it over twice but can’t find it. Am I just being dumb?

    So angry I forgot to watch this. What’s happened with Nick Buxton?

    June 7th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
  2. Mark Berry says:

    Very telling quote!

    June 7th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
  3. Dave says:

    Hi Tiffer. It would be cheeky of me just to copy and paste this wouldn’t it:

    Tony, from ‘the Monastery Revisited’, on TV here in the UK this evening

    Yes, I thought so.

    It was Tony.

    Superb programme I thought.

    June 7th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
  4. Dave says:

    Sorry – just to add, it was a quote I got by rewinding the video. Not online anywhere else as far as I know.

    June 7th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
  5. Paul Roberts says:

    In answer to Tiffer: Nick went through a ministry selection process and was accepted.

    June 7th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
  6. staring into the distance::as far as our eyes can see » The Monastery - Tony says it all… says:

    [...] gy , spirituality , altworship , emerging church 

    Well done to Dave Walker for transcribing the most poignant thing said in tonight’ [...]

    June 7th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
  7. Andrew Goodman says:

    Taking Tony’s challenge to be real in church yes, but wasn’t Tony a bit harsh and dismissive though? Not all churches are like that.

    June 8th, 2006 at 12:58 am
  8. Ian says:

    Very interesting.

    We’re still waiting for The Monastery to be shown down here. I’ve asked the BBC-equivalent when it may happen but haven’t received a reply as yet. I do hope it makes it down here.

    June 8th, 2006 at 3:40 am
  9. Rob says:

    I get the feeling htat Tony has been trying those big buildings with the pointy towers. A pity nobody pointed him to anything which sounds like what he is looking for in the emerging church sector.

    June 8th, 2006 at 8:23 am
  10. Tiffer says:

    *shame*

    It was only one word and a comma, easily, easily missed.

    Did anyone catch what college he is going to?

    June 8th, 2006 at 9:31 am