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March 5th, 2010

‘What the bishops were doing’ cartoon

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There has been a greater-than-average reaction to my What the bishops were doing whilst civil partnerships in church were being voted on cartoon (extract above) on the Church Times blog. By ‘greater than average’ I just mean that there has been one, as an average reaction is for there to be no reaction. See Thinking Anglicans for one place there has been comments.

I have minor regrets about this cartoon as it has given the ‘I hate bishops – they can do nothing right’ brigade who loiter on Anglican blogs something to jump up and down about.

On the other hand blogger Matt Wardman says: “Sorry, Dave – not as well judged as usual in my view”. To blogger Matt Wardman I say that normally I do not knowingly judge things that well, I just draw the first thing that comes into my head. Also I am asking a question about the activities of the bishops and was not prejudging the answer to that question. I am perfectly prepared to accept that they had more important things to be doing if that turns out to be the case. Bishop David Walker, whom I have great respect for (not least because he is my namesake and has done much to make the wearing of sandals acceptable in polite society), says that “most bishops are relaxed about the Ali amendment” and I can understand why that might be the case.

PS. I bet some idiot will try to register pectoralcrosses4u.com.

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9 Responses to “‘What the bishops were doing’ cartoon”


  1. The Church Mouse says:

    Mouse thought it was funny, and stuck it in his Friday Round-up. I like the idea of quick-fire responsive cartoons to current events.

    March 5th, 2010 at 10:49 am
  2. Phil Ruse says:

    I thought it was an excellent commentary. Just shows you don’t need to shout to ask a very valid question – you can’t blame yourself for other people’s noise.

    March 5th, 2010 at 10:57 am
  3. Dave says:

    Thanks The Church Mouse (I hadn’t seen your roundup when I wrote this at 3am). As an unrelated aside, I wonder how long it will be before somebody does a parody site called ‘The Church Moose’. Or ‘The Church Mousse’.

    Thanks Phil.

    March 5th, 2010 at 11:00 am
  4. Steve says:

    Excellent cartoon mate. Keep it up.

    March 5th, 2010 at 11:17 am
  5. Andrew Gray says:

    Now I thought it was a good comment. I see you more like the jesters of old – you speak the truth with humour. You don’t have to think it through, so long as it makes others think. Intuitive prophetic voice… I actually considered going and buying that domain, just for the fun of it!It wouldn’t rank in the search engines though…

    March 5th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
  6. Ann says:

    We linked it on Episcopal Cafe´ – thought it was funny and not at all disrespectful.

    March 5th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
  7. Nick Lear says:

    I don’t think you should have regrets of any size for that one. Good humour is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing: it allows the truth to get close before jumping out and howling at you.

    March 5th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
  8. Penny says:

    I think it would go over well across church traditions – very funny.

    March 5th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
  9. The Church Mouse says:

    Dave

    Thanks for planting that little seed! That’ll be rattling round the Mouse’s brain for a while now.

    Mouse

    March 5th, 2010 at 11:42 pm