Bishop Lawrence? I don't know, maybe I'm being overly sensitive or something, but you
MIGHT want to seriously rethink that crozier. It has certain...associations. And as my beloved mother used to regularly tell me, you could put somebody's eye out with that thing.
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Well, I don't care about the crozier, I just love the heroic Bishop Lawrence.
Love it! Heavy Shepherding! Bring it!
I try to be even-handed here.
:-)
Looks like a pruning hook, or a scythe definaetly is he saying no more Mr Nice Guy?
Bishop - please leave the black Wippell cape/hood at home.
This is arguably the perfect tool for the job.
I don't know if you can zoom in enough on this picture, but if memory serves from his consecration, it is actually a pelican carved into the wood. A grim foreshadowing of the sacrificial nature of His Grace's ministry.
Truly, a heroic Bishop. Perhaps that crozier is fitting for reaping the harvest.
"They shall beat their croziers into pruning hooks." Pseudo-Isaiah 2:4.
I had not even read the text yet, and I was wondering if I could put a better edge on that hook, uh, crozier.
Or as they used to say in vaudeville, "Get the hook!"
I thought it was a grapnel hook, you know, the kind they shoot out of a canon...I mean cannon...in order to scale the clifftop held by the enemy.
Prop cut from The Seventh Seal.
Perfect for fighting off the wolves!
Joel 3:13 "Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow--so great is their wickedness!"
The crosier is stupid, but I'm actually more irritated by the stole over his chimere... Do they not teach bishops the difference between choir dress and sacramental vestments any more?
Now that has become common Anglican usage ... so common that is now has customary force ...
Reminds me more of a flamingo
The crozier could be appropriate, depending on who's going to get 'reaped.' I'm going to watch for MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN to appear on the walls of 815 Second Avenue.
He could harvest hay or tall grass with it.
Now THAT guy takes church discipline SERIOUSLY!
Looks like the grim reaper.
Shouldn't he be wearing black and a skull mask?
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