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[tree_and_leaf]

I would describe the Church Times Cricket competition as the most English thing imaginable (sample sentence from match report in latest CT: "the Bishop of Wolverhampton, Gregory, was not out for 103"), except googling 'Church Times Cricket Competition" brought up this report from Lambeth last year, an account of a sermon by the Right Rev Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo, a liberal, where the light relief in an otherwise hard-hitting sermon was an allusion to cricket-playing as a means of ecumenism. So it's probably an Anglican thing.

(On a side note, that report contains the phrase 'the gay agenda', which I have become incapable of disassociating from mostly ironic use in Doctor Who fandom...)

Comments

[sir_guinglain]

You think that people in Doctor Who fandom use the term 'gay agenda' ironically? There are lots for whom this is an utterly serious issue!

[tree_and_leaf]

Fair point, though generally when I have heard it, it has been used in such a manner. But I defer to your greater knowledge of the fandom *g*

[sir_guinglain]

:) I think that you picked up my tone of mock outrage. I think that LJ and now DW fandom is more metrosexual or certainly more tolerant, but there was a strong streak of social conservatism in old fandom despite the predominance of gay men in it.

[sara]

*snerk* Some Anglicans. A good many of us do live in the non-cricketing parts of the communion....

[tree_and_leaf]

I know. Though the whole concept is rather difficult for me to accept! *g*