Jesus made an appearance on the BBC’s Newsnight last night. He was also on Question Time last Thursday. In fact he popped up in quite a few mainstream media places during the week and all because of the Occupy protest in London. Or to be more precise because of the spat between the protestors and St Paul’s Cathedral.

I don’t think anyone intended to give him so much exposure – there was no planned crusade, they weren’t the right sort of tents; there was no great supernatural sign and wonder; there wasn’t even a poster campaign on London route-master buses. All that happened was that a few dozen anarchic drop-outs decided to protest about poverty and a dripping-wet liberal cleric resigned on principle about peace and into this space between them Jesus comes and occupies it.

It’s funny where he turns up, isn’t it?


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