This is not the Archbishop of Canterbury fretting over recalcitrant American Episcopalians, apparently, but the missing Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic who has been hiding at Lambeth Palace for the last ten years.Or have I been confusing two stories in the news today?
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Not a comment on this post, but did you check out Richard Wood's most recent entry, with the clip from Bp. NT Wright's appearance on Stephen Colbert's show? Too funny, and he (the bish) identifies the "wish I'd brought a magazine" cartoon I mentioned in our discussion to my "Heaven" post as one of Gary Larson's (The Far Side).
It's good to find the Lighter Side of Lambeth!
Have you read his book? Is it supposed to be good?
It's Tom Wright, so I guess it is good!
He published a small booklet ages ago that said much the same things, and these ideas aren't really new. But they will take many people by surprise and he usually writes well, though I am surprised to find him pushing it on a comedy show!
(What went on in that writers' room? "Let's get a bishop in - a really high powered academic one, really orthodox and evangelical with a ton of degrees to his name and a brain the size of Harvard: he'll be good for a laugh!" And then they passed something slightly illegal along to the next guy???)
...these ideas aren't really new
I should hope not! :-)
As to how Wright got the gig, Stephen Colbert is actually a (believing, practicing) Roman Catholic-- a Sunday School teacher, even. Maybe he read the bishop's book or saw him on one of the more conventional stops along his book tour, and wanted him for the show.
Don't know if you get Colbert over there, but it's a peculiar (though not unique) thing. Tres post-modern. It's a real talk show with real guests, but the host is a persona originally used by Colbert on another program-- a Fox-News type conservative, comically self-involved guy.
Didn't Colbert start off on Jon Stewarts Today Show? Quite an amusing chap, even more so now I know he is a practicing Catholic.
Colbert did start out on Jon Stewart's program, The Daily Show.
Mark - a good point; likewise, I always found Mother Teresa vaguely amusing, but when I discovered she was a Catholic suddenly all those jokes just got funnier!
Everyone: thanks for commenting on Richard's blog here, I'm sure he's thrilled, especially now he has two blogs of his own for you to use! By the way, was I the only one to spot the likeness between Rowan Williams and Radovan Karadzic in this photo???
Those hand gestures certainly do look familiar, had you told me this was Canturbury and he hadn't trimmed his beard since the York Synod I probably would have believed you.
Are you aware of the Facebook group dedicated to bearded Anglicans? It's pretty fantastic.
Dear Marcus,
Please be reassured that I am more than comfortable with people posting on your blog rather than mine. I'm quite happy to provide you with all your quality material and let you take the glory...! ;-)
I'm now far to busy to moderate comments anyway, so I'll let you have that joy!
PS - camillofan, as Marcus' friend I'm sure you're a lovely person! He only befirends nice people. I promise to drop by your blog sometime!
Sorry, you wanted us to be talking about your blog post, didn't you/!
I'd love to, but I'm afraid I've no idea who this Rowan-knitting-pattern-Williams is...
Marcus, I didn't comment on your post because I don't crawl out from under my rock often enough to know whether the photo you put up was one of the Archbishop in which he looked remarkably like the evil Serbian dude, or vice-versa.
Ornamental/Running sheep, I have spread your link to all my friends (yes, all 5 of them), linking to your post rather than trying to find the source of the clip. So I hope your servers can handle the sudden rush of traffic. :-)
I'm just going for the record number of comments to a posting on my blog here.
Camillofan -the photo is the Serbian. But I am delighted you weren't sure.
Everyone - there's more Tom Wrightery over at FarmStrong, which Mark has already found, and where I have been slightly naughty. It's at http://farmstrong.blogspot.com/2008/07/nt-wright-offers-worship-design.html and when Camillofan tells me how to do that as a link on one of these forms, I will!
I'm shocked-- shocked!-- that blogger doesn't turn URLs into links automatically. I did it myself using html:
[a href="YOUR URL HERE]The text you want to link[/a]
Only use those pointy "less than-greater than" brackets instead of square brackets (the ones on the comma and full stop keys).
But don't you sometimes include links in your posts?
I'm still going for the record number of comments to a posting on my blog here.
So - that Tom Wrightery over at FarmStrong, which Mark has already found, and where I have been slightly naughty? I think you'll find it here if I've understood Camillofan's directions...
You understood them, even if I did forget to close my quotation marks in the "a" tag.
So, have we broken the record yet?
Thanks - I am, it turns out, computer literate enough to have recognised those unclosed """ marks. I'm impressed with myself - not easily done.
As for the record - oh, I think we passed that (for this site, anyway) ages ago. But I have cunningly tried to prolong it by putting a link to Richard's Tom Wright video on the current FarmStrong Tom Wright discussion comments, cos of course the comments there (Richard's site) direct people back here, where all the fun is really happening.
It's my day off. Can you tell?
Best line of the week: "I'm impressed with myself - not easily done." But it wouldn't have been as good coming from anyone else!
Being impressed with myself or not, or because I posted about war criminals, or due to the temperature of some of those FarmStrong comments, or just in the Spirit of Lambeth -
I was still surprised when one of the choir came up the aisle with a helmet this morning.
A helmet? The Choir? The aisle? I'm confused.
Is it true that the aisle is the path around the sides of the pews, not the path through the middle?
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