What a range! The Vatican is busy covering its...backlog, so to speak, explaining some questionable history of its near and distant past, while over here, to pay for their live-streamed webcast, our Anglicans are flogging pulpit prime space to the rich and wealthy. I guess it was inevitable. The Anglican Church of Canada's national convention this year is fund-raising by offering all sorts of opportunities for hawking goods and giving your corporation or family a boost! Brand logos, signs in meeting places and...wait for it - lunch with the senior Archbishop - are all there for the asking. http://v1.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20100420.ANGLICANS20ATL/TPStory/National/
For CAN$30,000 (Visionary category) the goodies are too grandiose to mention. Perhaps you can display your family crest above an altar, upon request. A corporation may prefer to be less ostentatious and join the Supporter category (CAN$7,500) with a wall-hanging behind the Chairman of the synod. Coca Cola's slogan "You Can't Beat the Feeling" has a ring to it. The prols are not left out. For CAN$2,500 (Friend category) they may have their names printed in the church's gift guide!
Any assumption that Canada's corporations, which definitely rule our political world, had not entered the world of faith is now dead in the water. Speaking of water, there will be a huge contest for who supplies the baptismal water. The buzz is it could be Evian!
If politics and religion are consigned to the fires of the corporatist world - can the judiciary be far behind? The Anglican Church - i'm lovin' it!
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