A Day in the Life of One Theologian Archbishop

Adrian Worsfold


Jane: good morning. After the disposal of my overnightly generated bodily liquids I am about to begin to interrogate by my presence the waterfalling and disposing ablutive facilities of the bathroom, to see if in the encounter and engagement they can produce - by my activity in partnership with them, in a process of vigorous emergence - a condition of cleansiness about my person greater than has been the case recently, and no doubt that this is related (in a subtle and important way that we perhaps must regard as partly mysterious) to the baptism that Christ himself was given and which the Church (of which I am but one leader) continues to practise to this day in the Holy Trinity as a symbol of salvation. I'll be twenty minutes.
Jane: we need to engage with the mobile tubular and bagging technologies of the home to create a transformation of the material floors beneath our feet, just as Christ transformed the material world beneath his human feet, so that we can arrest the deposits of the not incredibly microscopic elements that descend from the air and, prior to this, from our own transient depositions of skin and hair (and I should say beard) growth, no doubt too as Christ shed himself for which there may be possible atoning meaning, as we go about our own normal living, captured, as these once airborn deposits are, by the Levitical-questioning woven fibres and matting upon which we choose to walk and such floor coverings as Christ himself walked. Where's the Hoover?
Jane: I think we need to engage in the properties of heat to enact that chemical and molecular transformation of matter to produce ease of digestion, just as Christ transformed material elements in the biblical view of miracles (such as changing water into wine and, no doubt, the feeding of the four and five thousands), along with the complexity of mixing that adds to the responses of taste buds in the mouth; all this in order to meet regular necessities within our human digestive systems and create sensations of pleasure and indeed totemic symbols which we can place on the common table - shape, colour, smell, steam (none of which pleasures Jesus opposed in his gathering of his disciples around the common table) - that enhance, in this gathering together, our family life in what is a marvellous punctuation of the daily round through our own agape meal in the manner of Jesus himself and his company (as I must gather others, being a leader of a catholic and apostolic church). What are we having?
Jane: I think it is time for me, at least, to respond to that once expected and now obvious and of course regular biological demand for internal renewal without which a deep, unavoidable, lowering of self-efficiency would take place, and yet with it refreshment comes in the form of daily resurrection, as, no doubt, in and amongst his startled followers, Christ found with his renewal upon them and paved the way for the wonderful outpouring of Pentecost and the birth of the Christian Church, one apostolic and catholic branch of which I have come to be leader. See you in the morning.

 

Adrian Worsfold

Pluralist - Liberal and Thoughtful