“A half a Revelation, please.” The Rev. Stuart Cradduck allowed the theological implications of the request to hang in the air for a moment.
“Why settle for half when you could have a full revelation?” Mr. Cradduck answered.
Then he turned to the bank of wooden kegs under the stained-glass windows to fill the beer-lover’s order.
It was the last Saturday in November and Mr. Cradduck, the rector of St. Wulfram’s Church in this Midlands town, was serving behind an improvised bar in the church, dressed in a black cassock and clerical collar. With events like the “Land of Hops and Glory” beer festival, Mr. Cradduck and other Anglican modernizers are trying to make their churches hubs of increasingly secular communities.
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(WSJ) Rector hopes beer, toboggans will draw the community into his Anglican church
“A half a Revelation, please.” The Rev. Stuart Cradduck allowed the theological implications of the request to hang in the air for a moment.
“Why settle for half when you could have a full revelation?” Mr. Cradduck answered.
Then he turned to the bank of wooden kegs under the stained-glass windows to fill the beer-lover’s order.
It was the last Saturday in November and Mr. Cradduck, the rector of St. Wulfram’s Church in this Midlands town, was serving behind an improvised bar in the church, dressed in a black cassock and clerical collar. With events like the “Land of Hops and Glory” beer festival, Mr. Cradduck and other Anglican modernizers are trying to make their churches hubs of increasingly secular communities.
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