Beckminster Methodist Church, Wolverhampton

Here's a seasonal pun poster, again in classical black font on dayglo paper.  It makes excellent use of the power of punning to raise an interesting philosophical and theological point.  'Tis indeed the gift to be simple.

St. Jude's, Wolverhampton

Here's another example of the more modern, colour printed poster, complete with illustration.  It's a nice bit of social history in the making too, as it refers to the current financial crisis and the low interest rates on offer to savers, whilst making a mightly effort to increase the interest rate on offer to saviours...

Tettenhall Wood United Reformed Church

Here's a nice traditional, 'old skool' church pun poster.  Yellow paper, slightly dynamic font, no picture.  The only thing it lacks is two colours for the writing - key words in red would have made it a perfect example of the genre.  Some might argue that it is not strictly speaking a pun, but I think it is close enough to qualify.

Holy Trinity, Tewkesbury

Here's a rather professionally produced poster which features both an unusual football related pun and a visual gag to accompany it.  Top class punning, the boy done good.

This is an occasional blog to celebrate the posters displayed outside churches in the UK, often cheaply printed and simply designed, and which feature as their main selling point an incredibly bad pun.

This is a much under-appreciated area of theology which is deserving of more study, especially given the fact that the entire Christian church was founded on the basis of a pun by Jesus (Matthew 16:18) and this little blog will attempt to give religious puns the respect they deserve...