Simple Country Bishop Just Like Joan of Arc

It’s like Mr. Toad attempting to be humble at the end of Wind in the Willows.

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I’ve been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.

I has hoped this was satire.

“I told him that talking to him was like talking to Joan of Arc, in a time when a doc crew could capture the drama of the church/state firestorm he had found himself in.”

I honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry at that particular gem.  If the documentary is full of such pearls, it might be worth watching after all!

You realize, of course, that Joan of Arc is spinning in her grave at the comparison…

Well, St. Joan of Arc most certainly cannot compare when it comes to shoes…

“One of these moments was at a London church that had invited Bishop Robinson to preach even though the Archbishop had forbidden churches from doing so.”

Here we have the simple country bishop demonstrating his “brand of obedience”...but the article fails to mention the use of his bullet proof vest to ward off the “attack” of a loud voiced motorcycle helmut carrying protester who ACTUALLY said “Repent” out loud.  VGR was “saved” by the stridently hymn singing crowd some of whose members muscled the deadly helmut and its carrier out of the building before any further harm was done!  NO mention of which shoes VGR was wearing, alas.

Well, one of them is ostensibly a religious figure while in fact leading a political movement opposed to the values of the church, while the other masquerades as a man.

There’s a problem with the headline, you know. It really ought to read “Joan of Arc Just Like Simple Country Bishop”.

Which is absolutely true. They were or are both bipedal, sentient carbon based life forms. What more do you need?

[#8],

You forgot, “efficient exchanger of oxygen and carbon dioxide.”

“All right Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

It is for such moments of revelation that I am addicted to documentary film.

Wouldn’t a documentary on V. Gene Robinson be a docudrama?

What is this film’s rating?

“He invited me to follow him for the next four years.”

What a sad and shallow life this documentary film maker must lead that he would agree to spend four years documenting such a sad and shallow life.

Wouldn’t a documentary on V. Gene Robinson be a docudrama?

More like an infomercial, I would think.

After the interview, Gene and his partner Mark served refreshments at the parsonage… delighting the guests with their memorable signature dessertthat never fails to bring lots of comments, I mean, compliments.

Is there going to be a sequel?  If so I recommend “Love Free or Die Hard.”   I don’t guess the current one will become part of the Love Saga films on the Hallmark Channel.

I heard he is releasing a new line of fashionable bullet-proof vests along with matching shoes!

#17. B. Hunter,
He turned down an offer from a body armor company here in Fresno called “Dragon Skin” because it was an endangered species. http://www.pinnaclearmor.com/body-armor/dragon-skin/

You can bet he’ll make a few bucks on the royalties from this propaganda piece, and maybe he won’t need to go on all those speaking engagements anymore.  I wonder what the movie rating will be?

As a side note, I prayed in the Joan of Ark chapel which is actually located near the center of the Marquette University campus. It was disassembled in France shipped to Milwaukee and reassembled on the campus.

[11] Fr.Dale,

Well, docudrama is one possibility, as is Rich Gabrielson’s suggestion, infomercial. But I would humbly suggest that mockumentary might be a more apt descriptor, even though it’s likely that such was not the intention of the films’ maker.

Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer