That which unites us

This is my drawing for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, a special 8 day week which is currently taking place. The Churches Together in Britain and Ireland site has links to pamphlets and the BBC has a picture showing how doves are involved. Notably the week is 100 years old this time around, meaning that there will have been a total of 808 days of prayer for Christian unity, assuming that they started it on the 8 day basis and have continued ever since (I must confess to having done limited research).

Talking of unity, I have come to the conclusion that the current Anglican difficulties to do with sexuality are as of nought compared with the most pressing contentious issue of the day we face, that of Family Services. Thank you for your comments here and elsewhere by the way – really thought provoking and sincerely appreciated.

It seems to me that your response to the thorny family service issue depends upon a number of factors including but not limited to:

• Whether you have / have had small children or not
• Whether you have the responsibility for running services
• The kind of church you go to
• Your theology
• Whether you have, over the course of your lifetime, spent many long bitter hours in family services wishing that you were anywhere on the earth but here

In a way I am pleased that you all think so differently. It shows that this site has a diverse readership, and for that I am grateful.

[By the way, please feel free to reuse this cartoon on your blog with a link. If anyone would like to reuse it anywhere else let me know and I’ll post the high res version on the main site.]