Just a thought about yesterday - anyone ever heard of firework worship? I'm sure it's been done, but how about next year we actually get fireworks into the service. I haven't thought any further than that, but it is a whole year away now...
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We used to do this at my college. The dean (Dr. Graham Ward, for all you academic theologians out there) brought the tradition from his previous role in Oxford. A rocket would symbolically be let off following each ascension day service... well, two rockets would be let off, on the basis that a single rocket mis-firing would lay open all sorts of awkward theological questions. Muggins here got landed with the logistics (how to set off two seriously large display-standard rockets from the middle of a over-loved lawn that people weren't even allowed to walk on without marking a single blade of grass - yes, they inspected afterwards!)
After joining CotC, I mentioned this to my homegroup, and didn't think any more of it until next Ascension day, which happened to fall on a Wednesday, when someone who shall remain nameless suddenly appeared with something which looked like it had been pinched off the launchpad at Houston. This was last seen heading into space over Oakley Road...
Even kids have been in on the firework action - a Sunday School teacher in Brighton tried livening up her teaching of the Ascention with a few bangers several years ago and ended up being surrounded by police as the church's neighbours thought they'd heard gunfire!
Andrew
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