God doesn't discriminate, and so shouldn't we. So now, a Church of England guidance is being issued to clergy suggesting that churches should try harder to make bald and overweight people feel welcome.
The book, called Everybody Welcome, published this week suggests that bald and overweight people should be regarded as worshippers with "special needs" alongside the blind, the deaf, breast-feeding mothers, very short people and readers of tabloid newspapers.
England Churches to Combine Marriage and Baptism
The Church of England will offer two in one wedding and baptism services, officials said Thursday, as research shows increasing numbers of couples in Britain are having children out of wedlock.
The Church of England will offer two in one wedding and baptism services, officials said Thursday, as research shows increasing numbers of couples in Britain are having children out of wedlock.
However, it has also cautioned that bald people could be "in trouble from those overhead radiant heaters some churches have unwittingly installed" and that special arrangements may need to be made for people who are overweight.
"Some pew spaces and chairs are embarrassingly inadequate for what is known in church circles as 'the wider community'," the Telegraph quoted book as stating.
Ordination of Homosexual Clergy Signaling Next Schism?
The issue of the ordination of homosexual clergy could signal a vertical split in the Anglican Church, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says.
The issue of the ordination of homosexual clergy could signal a vertical split in the Anglican Church, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says.
The book, co-authored by the Ven Bob Jackson, Archdeacon of Walsall and one of the Church's leading experts on growth, and the Rev George Fisher, director of parish mission for the diocese of Lichfield, has also claimed that only one in ten church visitors return because existing worshippers tend to be so unwelcoming.
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Nurse Faces the Sack for Asking Patients to Attend Church for Relieving Stress
71-year-old Anand Rao, a nurse in the Leicester NHS Trust has been sacked after he asked a heart patient to turn to God to relieve stress.
71-year-old Anand Rao, a nurse in the Leicester NHS Trust has been sacked after he asked a heart patient to turn to God to relieve stress.
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'Is Your Sex Life A Bore' Leaflets Get Florida Church in Trouble
New Hope Church has infuriated officials at the school where they hold their meetings, after they mailed tens of thousands colourful fliers posing the question Is
New Hope Church has infuriated officials at the school where they hold their meetings, after they mailed tens of thousands colourful fliers posing the question Is
