Methodist clowning

[Somerset]

These are the words of a poster which has been put up outside my local Methodist church.

Roll up, Roll up
Bring your family and friends for truly memorable worship.
Sunday 1st April 10-30am with
Roly Bain
Anglican priest and professional clown
Enjoy faith, fun and foolishness.

Well - they have gone for the ideal date and it will probably be memorable and will certainly be foolish. Every time I think it can't get any worse with the liberal church - the liberal church proves me wrong.

 

[Rufus]

Methodist clown communions have occurred in the United States as well.

Every time I think it can't get any worse with the liberal church - the liberal church proves me wrong.

The problem is that (at least Stateside) I could imagine some supposed evangelicals doing the same thing.

 

[Sgt Grit]

Clowns scare me!

 

[Quatchu]

My wife is a Clown however she would probable be against this.

 

[Berean]

Photos anyone? Roly Bain photos

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Instead he ended up being ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1978, but he hadn’t managed to forget clowning, and in 1982 he helped found Holy Fools, a loose-knit network of loose nits committed to clowning in ministry and worship. In 1990 he resigned his parish in London and did a year at Fool Time, the circus school in Bristol (now called Circomedia), and he’s been clowning full-time ever since.

 

[N. Eshelman]

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[Andres]

Roll up, Roll up
Bring your family and friends for truly memorable worship.
Sunday 1st April 10-30am with
Roly Bain
Anglican priest and professional clown
Enjoy faith, fun and foolishness.

Woe unto them who would purposefully make worship into "foolishness".

 

[N. Eshelman]

From Holy Roly's website:

All his routines have some Christian basis, story or punchline.

Friends, All of this nonsense should make you want to sing psalms a cappella! Only the Regulative Principle of Worship can keep us from this as the logical end!

 

[Rich Koster]

It actually gives me the urge to perform a defenestration.

 

[J. Dean]

My wife sees every clown as Pennywise.

 

[Martin]

Years ago we had a similar type clown at my church on Sunday morning.