From The Telegraph-The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul in Aldeburgh was packed on Easter morning. At least half of the Church of England’s depleted membership seemed to be present in the pretty flint church, just up the hill from the sea. Not only was it the day of Christ’s Resurrection, it was the last chance to hear a sermon by Nigel Hartley, the departing vicar.
Latecomers, instead of being invited to sit behind a penitential pillar, were ushered to the pews at the very front where the righteously early were asked to budge along. The rest of the congregation looked on, thinking: “Oh, great, Mr and Mrs 10.31! Stroll in late and bag the best seats in the house, why don’t you?” Then we remembered: “Oops, we’re supposed to be Christian. And Jesus said the last shall be first, and the first last, so really it’s absolutely brilliant that these people who hold things up for everyone else should get a better seat than us.”
More here-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/10782674/Allison-Pearson-Wishy-washy-Anglicans-like-me-should-speak-up-for-the-Church.html
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