www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/11/anglicanism.religion

cracking little story that brightened my Friday afternoon further... it's really the sort of the thing you'd expect to see on The Day Today. Oh, wait, no, that did actually have a sketch about vicars bullying the altar boys, so not far off.

The best bit of the story by far has to be: "Ambrose said he and his wife had been victimised by a 'gang of four' troublemakers on the PCC and had received death threats signed 'the Archangel Michael'." 

Scary stuff! How vicious could this gang of four 'troublemakers' have been? Note that they were mere troublemakers, so the most they did was probably knock over his bins or prank call him.

But what of the death threats? Perhaps he really thought the Archangel Michael had taken against him and had chosen to threaten him on scrawled up piece of paper... not by appearing in all his glory and threatening to send him to hell (which is what he usually does I am reliably informed). Either way, it's restored my faith in religion and no mistake.