Comments on: Lambeth Conference update

By: Mark Bennet

Mark Bennet — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:33:20 +0000

Now Dave

I saw you cutting out that basketballing bishop, and didn’t want to interrupt. If I’d known, though, my trusty Swiss Army knife might just have come to the rescue. I’m glad to see you got the bouncing bishop up there in the end.

I guess the outcome of this Lambeth Conference will be judged not just by whether there is a similar event in 2018, but more crucially by whether the 2018 conference shop in the marketplace will be selling functional scissors as part of the official merchandise.

And in passing – taking down all those posts was the right thing to do – so many people have been supporting you, Essex clergy in various ways amongst them.

By: Lambeth Conference - Touching Base: Guest Column by Simon Sarmiento | The Wardman Wire

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:01:01 +0000

[...] Regular readers of this column will know all about Dave’s tribulations with Mark Brewer, but he’s had a lot else to deal with recently as the official Cartoonist in Residence at Lambeth. I spent 3 or 4 hours on most days helping him staff a stand in the Lambeth Marketplace which was promoting cartoonchurch.com and selling the books and calendars which contain his drawings. We had a steady stream of visitors, some of whom actually bought the products, and it was great fun to meet so many of his fans. I did have to keep explaining that I was not Dave Walker, though. The lifesize drawing of a bishop trying but failing to get a basketball into the net seemed to strike a chord with many bishops. Rowan Williams himself did come by, but nobody had a camera on hand. [...]

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:12:02 +0000

Was the BBC story going to be that a folding chair had been stolen? I know a 24 hour news is desperate for breaking news but that is taking the biscuit. (Biscuit theft would be the follow up story)

By: revLois Keen

revLois Keen — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:05:39 +0000

The RAFCON rabbits dood it.

By: 7WD EXCLUSIVE: New Dave Walker development | Seven whole days

7WD EXCLUSIVE: New Dave Walker development | Seven whole days — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:11:53 +0000

[...] In this case, he claims in a blog entry that someone has taken a folding chair from his palatial tent. He further claims that this was replaced by an volume containing the Holy Communion service from the Alternative Service Book. We sent a crack team of investigators to investigate this situation. This is what we found. [...]

By: Sarah B

Sarah B — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:59:46 +0000

The miraculous transformation of chair into an ASB… just think what might have happened if there had been a PEW in there! You’d probably have got a Book of Common Prayer!

By: Aaron Orear

Aaron Orear — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:56:28 +0000

Wow…the British ARE terrified of coming across as self-centred. As a North American, I caught not a whiff of self-promotion. And, naturally, you’re all desperately interested in what I think…

By: Sam Norton

Sam Norton — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:31:10 +0000

I’m sure you’re not keeping up with the e-mails! God bless you – and the work of your hands.

By: Auntie Doris

Auntie Doris — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:20:02 +0000

I had lunch with William Crawley… he’s a lovely man

Ps) Nice to see you, even if it was a rather brief ‘hello’!

By: Lois Keen

Lois Keen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:07:24 +0000

The cartoons are wonderful – except the one I can’t open, so I don’t know if it’s wonderful or not, but I assume so. The Daily Programe won’t show itself, except for the little teaser bit with Rowan at the podium. So sorry to kvetch. I especially love the rabbits, and the official drawing of the bishops – I want to blow up the drawing of the photo of the bishops to poster size and put it in the lobby of my church!