Comments on: Provocative church billboard brings new meaning to omnipotency

By: Mary had a little test :: StopPress :: Breaking news from New Zealand Marketing magazine

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:53:16 +0000

[...] season and waiting for the angry response to ensue. Last year it was M&C Saatchi showing Mary and Joseph’s post-coital awkwardness and this year it’s the follow up from TBWA: a billboard showing a shocked Mary looking at [...]

By: Easterly winds blow for new church billboard :: StopPress :: Breaking news from New Zealand Marketing magazine

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:31:37 +0000

[...] Progressive Auckland church St Matthew-in-the-city has put up its Easter/April Fools billboard, and this one, which features Jesus on the cross saying “Well this sucks. I wonder if they’ll remember anything I said,” appears to be much more palatable to fun-hating prudes anr religious zealots than the last innuendo-filled Christmas number. [...]

By: James Madelin

James Madelin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:11:48 +0000

Wow.. where to start. Good on St Matt's for reminding us that there are some open-minded and politically creative churches around. I find Bob McCroskie and his crones insensitive and objectionable, as I'm sure do many others. As for the suggestion that a reasonable parent should ever be "forced into debate" against their wishes by something as mundane as a billboard (however objectionable the parent may find it) is, well, the sort of pathetic rubbish I'd expect from 'Family First'. Oh the irony. Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to all.