Anyone following the Trumpington vicar saga?

I particularly like the fact that he was "accused of using Powerpoint presentations and slide shows in his sermons". You couldn't make it up.

Not heard owt about this - care to expand?

Take a look at the Cambridge Evening News web site (if you can stand to).

The C of E appointed a new vicar in Trumpington who has upset the locals with his new-fangled ways. To the extent that he is currently on trial in some sort of last-held-in-1485 church tribunal procedure. It's fascinating, but I suspect it isn't doing the Church's image much good.

I feel bad for him, as all he's tried to do is get numbers up at the church, has succeeded and is now being demonised by the mental locals who attend the church.

Excellent. Sounds like a laugh. Someone I know used to be the vicar in Girton.

He sounds a bit like Lee and Herring's trendy vicar. I'd love to have seen his Powerpoint show.

"She said that the smell of incense was so strong that it made people feel sick, and they had to leave the church."

Ho ho.

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if youre too hungover to go to his sermons can you download a podcast?

I heard he was trying to organise a live webchat with God.

I heard he was trying to organise a live webchat with God.
He knows Bill Gates. Blimey.

A a mates wedding, at the church in question last year, the vicar was so pissed, he could barely stand or slur the weddingy words.

At my sister-in-law's first wedding the vicar was new and young and nervous, kept forgeting his words and had a stutter. None of us in the audience dared look at each other.

We went past the church on Regent St at the weekend and there was a Powerpoint presentation going on in there :S

The vicar at my brother's christening was running off with his secretary when my parents and the family all arrived at the church. And when I worked in a call centre for a digital tv provider, I was called every name under the sun by a vicar of a church in Cambridgeshire who will remain nameless, who was upset that the company had removed his tv service including adult tv packages because he hadn't paid his bill.

I read about it a while ago when the CEN published the vicar's side of the story and the members of the congregation who had made the complaints kept quiet. Cue a massive amounts of letters in support of installing toilets and moving the pews for the mother and baby group since it sounded like a select few God botherers had got upset but now that the entire debacle has been published it's a bit more than the CEN had first reported.
I'd be a little miffed about the birth of Christ in powerpoint, mostly because it's a shit program but some of the other behaviour that the vicar has alledgedly carried out is odd. I do think that the CEN are rather short of news though to devote almost two pages for the last two nights on what boils down to a mud slinging match.

>He sounds a bit like Lee and Herring's trendy vicar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znGAQqQZ_Zg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fldKHxL83Qw&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8amOxXMrL2I&mode=related&search=

Man we need Lee & Herring back on TV.

you're not wrong *sigh*

that reminds me, must get Stewart Lee tickets if he hasn't sold out!

Stewart Lee: a disturbingly thick neck.

According to the vicar at my mum's church, the Trumpington congregation are well known for being 'difficult'.