{"id":1742,"date":"2010-01-12T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/cake-or-death\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:02:00","slug":"cake-or-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/cake-or-death.html","title":{"rendered":"Cake or Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A student sent me a link to a video \u2013 it is an Eddie Izzard sketch on fundamentals of the Church of England<\/a>, enacted and illustrated using Legos. And since I try to keep abreast of all developments at the intersection of religion and Legos, I thought I should share it.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>Historically, of course, the Church of England has indeed taken a firm stance on certain things other than cake with the vicar and threatened non-conformists with death. Be that as it may,\u00a0those who know and love the Anglican\/Episcopal tradition in its contemporary form may still find some amusement in the video. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the web, I came across an article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crawdaddy.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/05\/what-i-learned-from-christian-rock\/?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100111\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">What I Learned From Christian Rock<\/a>\u201d by Ryan Wasoba. The article is at Crawdaddy, which is the journalism component of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfgangsvault.com\/concerts\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wolfgang\u2019s Vault<\/a> site, an online archive of music performances that is itself worth a look if you haven\u2019t explored it already.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7563154083631076902?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student sent me a link to a video \u2013 it is an Eddie Izzard sketch on fundamentals of the Church of England, enacted and illustrated using Legos. And since I try to keep abreast of all developments at the intersection of religion and Legos, I thought I should share it. 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