{"id":15138,"date":"2011-12-14T18:48:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15138"},"modified":"2011-12-14T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:48:34","slug":"and-now-for-a-completely-different-annunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/and-now-for-a-completely-different-annunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"And now for a completely different Annunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A billboard put up outside an Auckland church has been labelled “weird” and “inappropriate”.<\/p>\n

It shows the Virgin Mary clearly shocked as she looks at a positive pregnancy test – but it’s not the first time the church has courted controversy.<\/p>\n

It’s supposed to be the Virgin Mary’s moment of epiphany.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s really weird,” one person told 3 News. “I don’t think it’s that appropriate to have outside a church.”<\/p>\n

“It’s weird, but not really offensive,” said another.<\/p>\n

“Well, I obviously don’t agree with it being weird and creepy,” says Glynn Cardy, vicar at of St Matthew-in-the-City, who came up with the idea for the billboard.<\/p>\n

“It’s trying to make people think about Christmas and to then think compassionately and kindly about people in a similar situation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Glynn Cardy tells us it should make us think \u201ckindly about people in a similar situation \u201c, he has a point: there are pregnant virgins popping up all over the place these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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