I’ll post this up on the site tomorrow in a high res downloady version. Unless anyone asks me not to.

Posted by Dave at 10:40 pm on April 30, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Church, Religion.

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This is the first new ‘cartoon’ (if you can call it that) I’ve posted here for several years.

I have made some progress and I thought I would report back to any interested parties who have not given up on me as a lost cause.

The pages for the 2009 calendar are now in. That is what I have spent way too much of the last three months doing. I just have some bits to do for the cover. The cartoons for book number 2 have also been sent off - there are just bits and bobs to be done like the deciding on the order that the cartoons will be in. I have also done some cartoons for another book that will be coming out in the summer - I think five plus the cover artwork are done and two aren’t.

I am starting another smaller freelance job this week, but all in all the pressure should soon start to ease a bit, which should mean that I’ll be able to get back to adding some decent content to this site and a lot of other jobs that I have been badly neglecting. Thanks for still reading even though the service has been a bit variable.

Posted by Dave at 2:34 pm on April 14, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, CartoonChurch progress.

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This drawing was lying around so I thought I’d post it.

Disclaimers: (a) I know it is supposed to be ‘while’, not ‘when’. (b) The person is a generic person, not me. (3) He hasn’t got two thumbs - that’s just the way the light is shining on your screen.

Life here in the ’studio’ continues to be a bit frantic, hence the lack of new pictures of this sort on the blog. I’m doing lots of cartoons, but they are for use elsewhere. The next month will unfortunately continue to be this way, but from the middle of April there should start to be a bit more variety here on the blog. Thanks for your patience.

Posted by Dave at 8:55 am on March 19, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, CartoonChurch progress, Religion.

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Posted by Dave at 11:28 pm on March 10, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Cartooning, Religion.

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This cartoon can be freely re-used on your blog - to find more of its kind see We Blog Cartoons.

I’m aware that this blog is not very good value at the moment. I can explain everything though - I have a major deadline this week and am also involved in a new project being launched in the very near future.

In the meantime please excuse my slap dash attitude: unanswered e-mails, blog posts with no titles, cartoons I’ve already posted six times, that sort of thing. Thanks for your patience.

Posted by Dave at 9:50 am on February 26, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, CartoonChurch progress.

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The 2008 remix of my ‘Evolution of a worshipper‘ cartoon appears in this month’s ‘Christianity Today‘ magazine:

As you can see this version has ‘emergent guy’ with his goatee, glasses and headphones.

It has been interesting to see the reactions to the cartoon in the various places where it has been mentioned, including:

• Prodigal Kiwi(s) Blog: The evolution of a worshipper
• Adveniat regnum tuum: The Evolution of a Worshipper
• Seven whole days » Evolution of a worshiper
• The evolution of a worshipper. « Jesus Loves The Children
• BLDAVIS.ORG » Evolution of the modern evangelical worshipper

Posted by Dave at 12:46 pm on February 23, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Spirituality, Emerging church, Religion.

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You can see a larger version of this cartoon here along with information about using it in your parish magazine and elsewhere.

This cartoon was originally published in the Church Times and can be found in the Dave Walker Guide to the Church published by Canterbury Press, available from good booksellers. Ask the person behind the till - they probably keep it under the desk wrapped in plain brown paper.

Posted by Dave at 9:11 am on February 21, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Church, New CartoonChurch cartoons, Religion.

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An Essex church is offering free weddings. The cost of the service, the choir, the organist, the verger and the heating is being waived by the church, Holy Trinity in Springfield. The fees normally cost £280 alone. From the Chelmsford Diocesan website:

Valentine sweethearts can tie the knot for free at a Chelmsford church. Romantic Rev Tim Ball, vicar of Holy Trinity Springfield, believes that marriage is best. So he’s waiving the cost of the service, the choir, the organist, the verger and the heating.

And the good news is that the offer will be available throughout the year.

“My church believes that marriage is best for couples, for children and for the community,” says big-hearted Tim.

“So we have put our money where our mouth is. We will pay all the costs of the service in the church. We are offering a free marriage service to parishioners because Holy Trinity is a good place to celebrate love and commitment.”

Presumably the organist, choir, verger and the man who turns the handle on the boiler have been consulted.

Before you all rush off to get married there I should make you aware of the small print. One of you has to live in the parish or you have to be ‘full and regular members’. Not full or regular, full and regular. It’s both/and, not either/or. There is also a marriage preparation evening which must be attended and an optional 8 week ‘bolt-on’ course all about ‘the basics of the Christian faith and what it means for today’.

In the unlikely event that you meet these criteria and happen to want to get married this year and happen to be a reader of this blog - what are you waiting for? Give the ‘Romantic Rev’ a call.

Update: I asked Rev Tim how they could afford to do it and he has kindly got back to me. Everyone is being paid as per usual. The church has made a decision to foot the bill. Here’s a section of his response:

These are our points for doing it. (I would say that we are doing it for people who live in our parish - it is not for the whole world.)

• We want to say how important we think marriage is, best for couples, best for children, best for society.
• We want to express our faith in generous giving - we don’t want to say we will ‘do it for Free’ - but that we will ‘pay for it’ because we have to pay the fees to the diocese, to the organist and for the verger etc, - so it is not just a case of not collecting the fee payable to the PCC.
• We would like to highlight the fact that the Christian marriage service expresses a higher ideal of committed love than any other wedding service.
• We hope we might encourage couples who aren’t married to consider it, or even to do it.
• We want to put our money where our mouth is - in that sense it is sacrificial, we see it as an investment in the kind of society we would like to see as bearing the marks of the kingdom of God.

Posted by Dave at 6:59 pm on February 12, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Church, Anglican goings-on, Religion.

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This is my ‘Good Samaritan’ diagram from day one of the ‘Love Life Live Lent‘ campaign. Sorry to only upload it today - I was up late meeting a deadline.

We have no idea whether the priest and the Levite went to the inn, but I have drawn them not doing so. I imagine the inn was the ‘motorway services’ of its day, but one doesn’t stop at every motorway services unless one needs to use the conveniences.

If anyone would like me to provide a high resolution version of this then please say so in the comments.

Update: The high resolution version of this cartoon is available to download. The page has my normal blurb about buying a licence, but in the spirit of ‘Love Life Live Lent’ you are welcome to use it for free if you are using it in connection with this campaign or for some other Lent-related purpose this year. Hopefully that’s fair.

Posted by Dave at 9:16 am on February 4, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Religion, Lent, Lent08.

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This is the method I use. I have found it to fail without fail.

This has nothing to do with the fact that it is National ‘Do your tax form’ Week.

[You may repost this image on your blog if you put a link back here - thank you!]

Posted by Dave at 3:07 pm on January 28, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Starting a Business, Slacking, Household hints.

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This is my drawing for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, a special 8 day week which is currently taking place. The Churches Together in Britain and Ireland site has links to pamphlets and the BBC has a picture showing how doves are involved. Notably the week is 100 years old this time around, meaning that there will have been a total of 808 days of prayer for Christian unity, assuming that they started it on the 8 day basis and have continued ever since (I must confess to having done limited research).

Talking of unity, I have come to the conclusion that the current Anglican difficulties to do with sexuality are as of nought compared with the most pressing contentious issue of the day we face, that of Family Services. Thank you for your comments here and elsewhere by the way - really thought provoking and sincerely appreciated.

It seems to me that your response to the thorny family service issue depends upon a number of factors including but not limited to:

• Whether you have / have had small children or not
• Whether you have the responsibility for running services
• The kind of church you go to
• Your theology
• Whether you have, over the course of your lifetime, spent many long bitter hours in family services wishing that you were anywhere on the earth but here

In a way I am pleased that you all think so differently. It shows that this site has a diverse readership, and for that I am grateful.

[By the way, please feel free to reuse this cartoon on your blog with a link. If anyone would like to reuse it anywhere else let me know and I’ll post the high res version on the main site.]

Posted by Dave at 6:07 pm on January 20, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Church, Ecumenical matters, Religion.

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A larger version of this cartoon is here. Info about using this and other cartoons elsewhere is in the usual place.

This cartoon is taken from the Dave Walker Guide to the Church, published by Canterbury Press. It originally appeared in the Church Times.

Posted by Dave at 11:51 pm on January 15, 2008 and filed under Cartoons, Church, Religion.

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