tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post5659316793899447806..comments2024-02-13T11:11:28.246+00:00Comments on Bishop Alan’s Blog: Rev: Faith, hope and charityBishop Alan Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-35067155878905331892010-07-24T13:38:32.925+01:002010-07-24T13:38:32.925+01:00I love Rev. I think it is so intelligently done. I...I love Rev. I think it is so intelligently done. It also makes me laugh out loud, and most comedies don't. I love the Archdeacon and his scary leather gloves and strange stare. He's not overplayed though - you mostly twig how sinister he is through Tom Hollander's petrified reactions.<br /><br />In the most recent episode I really liked the contrast between the way the "successful" clergyman (played by Hugh Bonneville) shamelessly stole something from Adam (his idea for a radio slot), whereas hopeless old Colin, who sleeps rough and is a bit of an embarrassment and an official "failure" in life, did the reverse - he went and got something that had been stolen from Adam back (his church robes), and got his face bruised in the process, but he didn't care about that. <br /><br />I also liked the breakout quote on the page of a newspaper article that the Hugh Bonneville character had supposedly written - "We are all chained to the radiator of life." This was suitably meaningless in just the right way. They only showed it for a second.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14082263093224795131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-44689399915227039042010-07-20T22:25:20.797+01:002010-07-20T22:25:20.797+01:00A good & fair review; I cannot comment on whet...A good & fair review; I cannot comment on whether it is a fair reflection of Anglican inner-city ministry but it is funny, challenging, wise & seems to have a heart - a blend that seems absent from most TV comedy today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-81402387088335276232010-07-20T17:33:00.479+01:002010-07-20T17:33:00.479+01:00I watch the Rev and Shoreditch Church with a touch...I watch the Rev and Shoreditch Church with a touch of Nostalgia. It is my home ground, where my family hadlived for generations (back to about 1642) until my generation left for the suburbs after the blitz and post-war dispersal that took place in East London. I left to join the Army in 1967 and never went back. Although I travel through it regularly driving to events in London.<br /><br />I was RC at that time, so Shoreditch Church and its congregation were perceived as the enemy (virtually pagan according to my father?). Fortunately, I came to my senses and joined the CofE.<br /><br />I think that the Rev gives an insight into things that I will not experience in my leafy suburb, in the same intensity. But while I test a vocation - it is also a reality check on what can happen to those who minister to us.<br /><br />Do I really want to be doing this? Well the answer is I don't but something bigger than I am seems to have other ideas.<br /><br />I blame my Vicar - he should have put me off - but he didn't and look where it has got me.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-47384306592840329432010-07-20T16:42:38.346+01:002010-07-20T16:42:38.346+01:00"It’s a ministry that resents all the distrac..."It’s a ministry that resents all the distractions, until it realises that the ministry is the distractions."<br /><br />Amen! That is the prayer... those things where we have to show God's love.Huw Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13767334011657735131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-17370269493995991612010-07-20T15:10:03.359+01:002010-07-20T15:10:03.359+01:00Can hardly wait for this one to "cross the po...Can hardly wait for this one to "cross the pond"....ROBERTAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09130103117335080071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-79225609847086433622010-07-20T15:08:38.472+01:002010-07-20T15:08:38.472+01:00Alas, we can't watch this in the US - the iBBC...Alas, we can't watch this in the US - the iBBC player won't show the video, although we can get the audio. I shall put the DVD season on my Christmas list - it sounds like a treat.Penelopepiscopalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110169815273159849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-23041610941689807042010-07-20T14:03:56.619+01:002010-07-20T14:03:56.619+01:00As you say, it is alarming how even a newbie Curat...As you say, it is alarming how even a newbie Curate such as I can name names that match each of the skillfully observed characters. It is alarming, it is uncanny.<br /><br />It was also a joy to be sat in a room with a whole peer group of a diocese's curates one evening as we all watched. For my part though, I am glad it wasn't the 'Isn't Jesus Awesome' one! Smoothie anyone?<br /><br />Actually, there is something that those on the inside will clearly relate to and relish and there is something that those who don;t do church at all will be amused by - what better evangelism is there than that? <br /><br />As an urban priest, suddenly I feel mainstream. I am even married to a solicitor Mrs Vicarage who doesn't 'do' vicar wife stuff so much, so that keeps 'Er Indoors' happy too.<br /><br />Hoorah!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268991293847325315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-82037578892027088842010-07-20T13:19:44.651+01:002010-07-20T13:19:44.651+01:00Very well said and I for one completely agree!
Re...Very well said and I for one completely agree!<br /><br />Rev deals with the grimier parts of urban mininstry with understanding and sensitivity.<br /><br />I am reminded of an incident about 16 years ago when my Dad was incumbent of a church in West Reading. After Midnight Mass one year the congregation alerted Dad to a prone lifeless looking figure slumped against the church hall. Dad went over to him, and the poor bloke came to with a start to see a clergy man in full gold vestment, chasuble and all bending over him, I bet he wondered whether he had gone to 'the other place'.Siobhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09944970101016938434noreply@blogger.com