(Carl Trueman)
It is now some sixteen years since the disaster that was `The Nine O'Clock Service.' This was the name given to an Anglican church in Sheffield which had started as a signs and wonders gig, gone Anglican, morphed into an odd fusion of Anglo-Catholicism and ecological mysticism and finally gone bust amidst allegations that the vicar, Chris Brain, had been having sexual relations with women in the church. In the process, the church grew from 10 to over 600 mainly young people. Its sacramental life centered on the memorably entitled and utterly mad `Planetary Mass' which Brain celebrated wearing the actual robe Robert DeNiro used in the film The Mission. He also formed a personal bodyguard of young, attractive women. You could instantly recognize them: they were the ones wearing the black catsuits. They were also the ones he was sexually enjoying on a regular basis. MORE...
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