Well the Little Elephant God is Kind of Cute

From the Times of London comes the story of a C 0f E priest who has taken his ecumencalism to an extreme. The Rev. David Hart aka Ananda, who lives in Thiruvananthapuram, India has converted to Hinduism but still intends to remain an Anglican priest. The good Reverend Ananda (which means Happiness...isn't that sweet) says...

"My philosophical position is that all religions are cultural constructs,I am acting out God’s story in local terms."

Sort of "when in Rome.."

In an earlier interview in India, the former University of Cambridge chaplain said that he was planning to immerse his idol of the four-armed Ganesh in the ocean.

“In England, the idol of Ganesha is more popular than Krishna or any other Indian god and many households have Ganesha in the living room,” Mr Hart said