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This cartoon seemed to go down quite well when I did my live gig the other week – you can see a larger version here.
Apologies for a lack of new material today. I’ve spent most of the day stressing over a single cartoon. I spend nearly all of my Sundays this way these days. In fact quite a lot of my days generally.
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My favorite is the personal space invader… we have one just like that at our church!
Yep – was at church last night and that pretty much sums up what happened
People do vary in their preferences and comfort zones, not just in church!
Do have a look at the “free huggers” on U tube (not rude!) linked through the comments on http://thewordatthebarricades.typepad.com/ on 14 Feb entry
I’ve just spent all morning stressing over a single church service – which of us is the more “useful”, and which (service v. cartoon) will be better received/remembered? I can guess….
Anyway, Dave, since I’m not suffering your stress, I can tell you that it’s worth it – if only for my sake!
My preference is to shake the hands of the people beside, in front and behind me, then leave it at that. It’s a ritual greeting, not a time for chatting or hugging or whatever (the time for that is coffee hour). Unfortunately, at my church the priest comes into the nave and shakes the end of every single person which takes far too long (luckily we aren’t a parish of 200 or more!). I guess he would be an Olympic peacegiver in your description.
I read somewhere on the Internet that there are too main kinds of peace passers: the kind who think that by shaking one person’s hand you’ve shaken them all, and the kind who think that you haven’t shaken anyone’s hand until you’ve shaken them all. I think they might have been called immanent and transcendent, but I’m not sure.
My wife and I took a break from our regular Sunday worship and attended an Anglican service yesterday morning. We feel there should be a fifth type of Peace sharer: the non-Anglican, stands there frozen wondering what they’ve stumbled into and what they should be doing. 
No apologies needed for lack of new material, Dave – I hadn’t seen this one before, and it’s brilliant!!
Thanks for the giggle!
As Canadian says, shake the hands of the people beside, in front and behind you. That’s what we always do in the church which I attend.
When I started to go to the small church I know consider to be my church I discovered that everyone processes around in order to try and exchange the peace with everyone else. However some people go the opposite way round to the rest of us – otherwise it wouldn’t work at all – and somehow I seem to miss some on a regular basis.
Sitting on a different side of the church last Sunday I found it much easier not to miss them out.
I guess there are about 15 – 20 adults by the time the kids and helpers have gone off for the youth activities.
I’m sure there must be an optimum way to procede in order for everyone to exchang the peace with everyone else. Btw we don’t have pews, just plastic chairs in three sections, middle and two sides, with two aisles between them.
Great cartoon and so true. Canadian’s little ritual seems just about right for me.
