The Church of England has released its latest Statistics for Mission, and Norman Ivison has an excellent analysis. The good news is that CofE worshipping communities are not collapsing as some might expect. The bad news is that what many of us hoped was a the bottom of a curve seems instead to be a gentle decline.



So here are my immediate thoughts:

Something about the new Christmas John Lewis advert just seems a bit off.


We have a lonely penguin - Calvin and Hobbes style. The gender of the penguin is not explored. However it is a lonely penguin. But don't worry John lewis have the answer. A mail order bride/groom to bring happiness to the saddest Spheniscidae (yeah I had to look that up).

And of course it is a match made in heaven.

And to me my gut reaction, following the anthropomorphism in regards to the lonely penguin, was: