New Zealand Anglican Church 'pushes envelope' with latest billboard

A new billboard outside Auckland’s St Matthew-in-the-City aims to prove you can’t put all Christians in the same box, the church’s priest-in-charge says.

In response to recent Hell Pizza billboards advertising its hot cross buns with the tagline: “For a limited time. A bit like Jesus”, the latest St Matthew billboard reads: “Hell no, we’re not giving up pizza for Lent”.

Priest-in-charge Clay Nelson said the idea for the billboard came after reading a Herald story where Anglican Church media officer Lloyd Ashton said the billboards were “disrespectful to what a lot of people hold very dear…”

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One comment on “New Zealand Anglican Church 'pushes envelope' with latest billboard

  1. Caedmon says:

    Those Kwazi Kiwis!