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May 30th, 2007

The Parish System

the parish system

Another one from the book. I’ll give you a link to a larger republishable version of this cartoon tomorrow.

Update: larger republishable version now available here.

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9 Responses to “The Parish System”


  1. ash says:

    I like this cartoon a lot. It’s one of my favourites from the book I think.

  2. Chas says:

    Glorious!

  3. joe says:

    Is that one top middle the White House?

  4. Rebecca says:

    I love this one. In all my life I don’t think I have ever regularly attended the church in my ‘home’ parish!

  5. Rob says:

    I think my church is all of the above – I am surprised anybody goes there. Even more surprising given that they will also meet me.

  6. David Keen says:

    The parish boundaries in our neck of the woods look more like a quirky jigsaw puzzle with as many strange shapes as possible. We also have things like ‘Odcombe Detached’, which is a bit of a rural parish boundary which sneaked off when nobody was looking and took up residence on an industrial estate a couple of miles away.

  7. Jo says:

    This is so true, so fantastically true!

  8. Philip of Samaria says:

    I used to snort at parishes belonging to a ‘gathered’ type church til.. I met the vicar local to my work – great guy; I spoke at a parish church with 8 people there who sang unacompanied and fantastically well – only a tuning fork to help!. The idea that out there is the possibility every few miles of someone leading a group of christians to be disciples is amazing – and my recent experience suggests that’s more how it is now than in the past when anglicans where more the local social club for the prevailing clique. May it be more so

  9. Martin Eyles says:

    And that’s before you even start considering all the different denominations, each with their own equivalent systems of boundaries, or even without boundaries defined.