The Bishop on the Roof...
Click here for audio I was amused to hear the true story last October of a passerby who spotted a bunch of suspicious youths on the roof of a church in Norwich. You may know that a lot of lead has been stolen from church roofs, even in our local area, and so the passerby decided to contact Norfolk police to seek to get the bunch of nogooders up on the roof arrested. However, it was a case of mistaken identity. The people on the roof weren’t dodgy teenagers, but the Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, who was there on church business with the vicar of the church inspecting the new solar panels that the church had installed, to seek to bring their carbon footprint to net zero. Bishop Graham tweeted that he was rather flattered to be mistaken for a youth, and was able to share the good news story of a church seeking to reduce their carbon footprint, like some of our local churches have done. It made me think a bit about Easter. Jesus himself had many cases of mistaken identity. ...