{"id":627,"date":"2006-01-26T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T09:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2006-01-26T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T09:46:30","slug":"jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/26\/jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, those Brits really know how to worship. This Easter the BBC will do a live show<\/a> in the streets of Manchester, England. Essentially, it will feature Jesus and friends singing pop songs from Oasis, Stone Roses, The Smiths, etc.<\/p>\n

The gay and red light disctrict of Manchester is chosen as the set of Jerusalem, with the public encouraged to participate.<\/p>\n

“The climax of the event sees Jesus sing the Smiths classic song Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now as he is being flayed by Roman soldiers. He will then come face-to-face with his Roman prosecutor Pontius Pilate with the two of them singing a duet of the Oasis hit Wonderwall”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The event has the full support of the Church of England.<\/p>\n

“Canon Robin Gamble, canon evangelist at Manchester Cathedral, has been tasked with encouraging churchgoers to attend the event. “I wouldn’t know a Buzzcock from a ballcock so I couldn’t really comment on the music. All I can say is that they are not doing a Christian service, it is a piece of contemporary theatre and that is going to get people to think about the story in modern terms,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that’s actually the smartest thing I have seen the Catholic Church do in a long time. It’s almost hard to believe, really. The gay and red light district? Pop music? Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, those Brits really know how to worship. This Easter the BBC will do a live show in the streets of Manchester, England. Essentially, it will feature Jesus and friends singing pop songs from Oasis, Stone Roses, The Smiths, etc. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siGNU-jesus","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}