Rev Canon Dr Jennifer Smith, Superintendent minister at Wesley’s Chapel and Leysian Mission

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, the Temporarily Visible Third of the Invisible Magic Friend is dead. King Charles has said so and that’s good enough for me.

Jesus temporarily sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself. It’s so sad.

SPOILER ALERT

He comes back.

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Rev Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James Piccadilly, handy for Fortnum and Mason

Has anyone mentioned Holy Week? Happy Maundy Thursday everybody! It’s when the temporarily visible third of the Invisible Magic Friend first magically turned bread and wine into his own body and blood and passed his magic powers onto the apostles. Through the Apostolic Succession they’ve passed their magic powers down through the centuries so that we can still eat bits of him today. Isn’t that brilliant!

I know what you’re thinking. Thank goodness the eucharist is still in the news and we don’t just get some blatant, unashamed, religious proselytizing.

You must now feel profoundly gloomy for the first half of the holiday weekend.

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Beattie Tina Beattie, Professor of being Catholic

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, Happy In Between Wednesday when Jesus did not a lot.

Which brings me to democracy, which Jesus talked about a lot. Fickle crowds are subject to totally made up stories and can be made to believe any outlandish rubbish.

The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was a devout Christian as is the Russian dictator who murdered him. Which just goes to show how flexible Christianity is.

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Tim Stanley, blogger, journalist, historian and Catholic

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, Happy Nearly Birthday of Van Gogh.

Van Gogh painted a picture of Mary and Jesus, with Jesus having red hair and a beard like himself, whereas everybody knows that Jesus had the tradition middle eastern appearance of blond hair and blue eyes.

Jesus suffered mentally, just like Van Gogh. Although he didn’t chop his own ear off. Peter chopped someone’s ear off, but Jesus stuck it back on again. Which just goes to show how tremendously holy and significant the chopping off of ears is in Holy Week.

There isn’t really any news worth commenting on today.

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