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You do? How mega is mega?

Shall we go sometime? I Have a Theory and I'd quite like to check it.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Feb 10th, 2010 at 08:44:23 PM EST
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Kingsgate community church.  As seen on the BBC.

(I suspect the name is a pun on Peterborough's real Sunday worship: the Queensgate shopping centre.)

Sure we can go.  But I warn you, the only way I can keep a straight face is by singing enthusiastically.

by Sassafras on Thu Feb 11th, 2010 at 03:48:03 PM EST
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Will you know the songs? Or does it not matter?

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Feb 11th, 2010 at 05:47:04 PM EST
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All my experience is that they sing the songs to the wrong tunes. (oh and some of their more modern hymns are lyrically laughable)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Feb 11th, 2010 at 09:49:43 PM EST
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The devil does indeed have the best tunes.

I've a sneaking, guilty fondness for traditional Anglican hymns, with their whiff of old hassocks, school assembly and Empire.  But putting a son through Scouts has sent me to church often enough in the past few years to get an idea of the current hymnal.  I remember once seeing a CD of them advertised while flicking past a God channel, and taking some convincing I hadn't happened on a spoof.

On the upside, it doesn't matter if you can't sing or don't know the tune, because it can't get any worse.

All together now...My God is an awesome God...

by Sassafras on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 06:09:59 PM EST
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Hmmm. Nice web site, but it turns out to be a canned and shrink-wrapped 'web church managemnent system.'

No new posts on the forums since last summer.

Are they still going, or have they been bought by Ikea?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 07:04:56 PM EST
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Full set of services this week.  Including alpha 2 and beta 3.

They didn't have those at Trentham Parish, I can tell you.

OMG.  It's gone happy clappy. Wonder if you can now choose where to sit without a detailed map.  Or if it's any less embarrassing to whack the rood screen with a Girl Guide flag.

by Sassafras on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 08:02:38 PM EST
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There's a promo video!

It's 172MB and takes half an hour to download.

But it's hard not to like a church that asks questions like 'What are we like' without irony. (Or question marks.)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 08:18:13 PM EST
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Well, this one, that used to be run by an utterly loonie Pentecostal vicar, seems to have gone quite the other way. Mass and incense indeed.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Feb 13th, 2010 at 03:10:40 AM EST
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