Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m., Monday 16 June.
We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide a credit and confirm that those pictured are happy for the photo to be used.
Here is the winning entry for the previous competition:
Marxists to the left, Christians to the right, and everyone else form an orderly queue down the middle (Martin Kettle)
A selection of this week’s entries:
“The Youth Group’s work on publicity for St Mark’s was in its early stages” (Sue Chick); “. . . and free copies of the New Testament given to walkers at the bust of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery” (Bill de Quick); “New walking tour unveiled. Led by well-known atheist, visit local churches renowned for distributing opiates to the masses” (David Norfolk); “The writing’s on the wall for Bill Stickers and Msprints” (Julian Ashton); “This way for the ‘stairway to heaven’” (Lynda Sebbage); “Marks & Senders” (Michael Doe); “Well, it`s definitely not a Banksy” (Ken Wilkinson); “It was one hour after the walking tour was supposed to start, and Jesus still hadn’t arrived” (Philip Lickley); “‘Opium of the people’? Who would have thought that Marxism and Christianity would turn out to be so adjacent” (Jacky Tivers).
“As Jesus hadn’t shown up (again), somewhat belatedly a replacement was drafted in to take his place” (Andrew Hunt); “Mark’s Good News is bad news for Marx. Capital!” (John Saxbee); “All bases covered, but the devil is in the detail” (Paulette Yallop); “On your Marx — get set — go!” (Michael Watts); “Nobody took the new brutalist reredos too seriously” (Steve Tilley); “Walking tours to raise the parish share were advertised in the diocesan finance board’s poster campaign, ‘From each according to their ability’” (Jo Mash); “It was a two-legged race” (Brian Stevenson).
“Jesus beats Karl Marx by two to one on the posters” (Steve Davies); “In its inclusive outreach messages the church does run the risk of embracing contradiction” (Jeff Leonardi); “The church notice board was indeed showing a broad church view” (Chris Coupe); “Is this meant to be a reminder of the Five Marx of Mission?” (Michael Foster); “Karl Marx Walking Tour loses out to Jesus Walking on Water Tour in Highgate visitor-attraction awards” (Mark Westcott); “On your Marx, get set, go” (Richard Strudwick); “‘From the sublime to the ridiculous — but which is which?’ Discuss” (Geoffrey Robinson); “Keen curate Richard had been reading Kierkegaard for the first time — but the Revd Jean wasn’t too happy with his extrapolation of either/or” (Tony Patey).
“The three conflicting posters on the billboard opposite Holy Trinity confused both worshippers and passers-by” (Robin Morgan); “Highgate Cemetery had been instructed to take an ecumenical view of both religion and politics” (Richard Hough); “Special rates for the lumpen proletariat!” (Jane Kearey).
As ever, the winner receives a prize of Fairtrade chocolate, courtesy of Divine Chocolate.
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