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March 4th, 2007

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A larger version of this cartoon is here along with information about how to use it in your own church publications and elsewhere.

A version of this cartoon appears in the book. I was never very happy with the book version. It had three columns unlike the two in this version. The right hand column (not shown here) was some underlined writing to do with leaving rotas or somesuch which was OK but I wasn’t really satisfied with it. The truth is that I’d had the idea for the four pictures a long time before but finished drawing them the night before the book deadline.

In reality the four pictures are a summary of my ‘faith journey’ (appalling phrase) which perhaps don’t need a punchline. Though in hindsight perhaps the ‘emerging churchers’ or ‘alternative worshippers’ should have got a look-in as well.

I suppose what I wanted to say is that I have found something of value in all these different approaches to Christian faith. Some more so than others, and some of the things I once held to be important I no longer see as important. We all change and realise that we were wrong about certain things. I suspect I been more wrong than most people about more things than most people, if that makes a shred of sense.

Some people don’t like the labels (evangelical, liberal etc) of course, but we have to give things names otherwise no-one knows what we are talking about. Perhaps these days I tend to wear my labels sewn onto the inside of my clothes rather than emblazoned on the outside.

[Feel free to post this cartoon on your blog. Just sew this handy code into the waistline:]

<img src="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/cb/i-have.gif" alt="cartoon from www.weblogcartoons.com" />
<p>Cartoon by <a href="http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/">Dave Walker</a>. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at <a href="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/">We Blog Cartoons</a>.</p>

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  1. ginny says:

    I haven’t evangelized with the evangelicals, but three outta four ain’t bad. And all of a Sunday morning!

    In our merged parish, we have a small core of self-crossing, genuflecting, bowing and scraping Anglo-Catholics, and we’ve been grafted onto newer stock consisting of broadly gesturing, Heaven-pointing quasi-charismatics. We’re all pretty much questioning liberals, puzzling over things in various meetings and Adult Ed. programs.

    When I finally got home, I had tea. Done!

    Thank you, I’m off to use this on my own blog.

  2. ash says:

    I like this tagline better, too. Although the one in the book is still fairly amusing :o )

  3. Chris Clark says:

    Sounds as though you have become a good Anglican
    Scripture, tradition and reason…

    ….maybe you have not quite come to terms with the fourth element in the Lambeth quadrilateral which is Bishops!

    I suspect The emerging church is just a new expression of these things not really a new type of thinking…I may be wrong.

  4. jody says:

    you made me smile Dave.

    by the way, I think that it might be the ‘tea’ that makes you Anglican rather than the other stuff :-)

    also cucumber sandwiches are necessary….

  5. Ian M says:

    I have been looking into the theology and implications of tea drinking for a little while. Chapter 1 of a potential book can be found at http://www.ianmiller.net/tea/chap1.php

    Comments very welcome!

  6. Chris says:

    Great, Dave! I’m with you there – my problem is that I don’t know if I’m a post-evangelical or a pre-liberal!

    Get well soon!

  7. Raspberry Rabbit says:

    Geez, is that what liberals do? Sit around in groups looking puzzled and saying ‘frankly, Pete, I don’t have a frigging clue what it is. It’s certainly not this and it’s certainly not that. I guess we’ll never know’.

    I thought that’s what the Council did!