Period poverty is now a thing

The church has an uncanny knack for tenaciously latching on to strange obsessions. We used to be able to content ourselves with the knowledge that clerics spent most of their time searching for ways to make sodomy holy.

But things have moved on since the simplicity of those halcyon times: today our clergy are more interested in how to turn men into women – an updating of turning water into wine, one presumes.

And now, in order to spread the good news of salvation through Jesus by faith, the church is distributing menstrual products. I am still struggling to see the connection, but I suppose there must be one.

From here:

A small-town Manitoba parish is making menstrual products available to women in need by means of a special mailbox affixed to the outside of the church—and at least two other churches are following its example.

Since last spring, staff at Christ Church The Pas have been placing tampons, pantiliners and pads in a red mailbox hanging from the church wall, and inviting community members who need them to help themselves. The Rev. Jann Brooks says the service is being used to the point where she has to refill the mailbox every second day.

Where was the Anglican Church of Canada when we all ran out of toilet paper I’d like to know.

Diocese of Niagara interfaith service attracts more Muslims than Christians

A short update on the interfaith service held at All Saints Anglican Church in Erin.

Here is a photo of the service which attracted 30 Muslims and two imams. As far as I can tell, they outnumber the regular parishioners. Finally an answer to the disastrous numerical decline in the Anglican Church of Canada.

Here is the Chrislam version of the Lord’s Prayer which was used:

Priest: And lead us not into temptation

Imam: Show us the straight path. The path of those whom Thou has favoured
Not (the path) of those who earn Thine anger. Nor of those who go astray.

Priest: For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever.

There was one potentially embarrassing moment when someone brought up the awkward topic of “jihad”. The impertinent question was deftly diverted away from the imputation that it might involve lopping off the heads of infidels:

When All Saints parishioner Lynne Dole asked about the word “jihad”, the Imam said that for many in the West this word means war or aggression against “infidels” (those not of the Muslim faith). He explained that the word itself means effort, striving, struggling to become a good Muslim and informing others about their faith.