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A novel way to get young people to church is being tried out with a special service at St Paul’s in (Lib Dem) Grangetown, Cardiff. The church was used as a location for Paul Cornell<\/a>‘s Doctor Who<\/em> episode Father’s Day<\/em> a few year’s ago, and the series is its means to entice fans in, as icWales reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Fr Dean Atkins, youth officer with the Diocese of Llandaff and one of the organisers of the service, said: \u201cThe figure of Doctor Who is somebody who comes to save the world, almost a Messiah figure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the series there are lots of references to salvation and the doctor being almost immortal. We are using the figure of Doctor Who as a parable of Christ.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe language used in the series lends itself to exploring the Christian faith.\u201d
\n[…]
\nParish priest Fr Ben Andrews said: \u201cI love the series, and it has such a great following that we couldn\u2019t resist doing something for young people on a Doctor Who theme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Full story here<\/a>. I hope you appreciate my restraint in titling this post, when Rise of the Congregation, The Sound of Hymns, Army of Holy Ghosts or Pew Earth were all out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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