Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m., Monday 8 September.
We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide a credit and confirm that those pictured are happy for the photo to be used.
Here is the winning entry for the previous competition:
It was an ecumenical whodunnit (Brian Stevenson)
A SELECTION of this week’s entries:
“Father Brown and his accomplices celebrate a week without a murder” (Bill de Quick); “Amateur sleuthing has now become part of clergy training days” (Sue Chick); “There were a number of candidates for the role of vicar at St Jude’s, Dibley” (Bridget Swan); “The Charlie’s Angels reboot was unexpected” (Gina Robertson); “There was a certain surprise when a character from a much loved detective series threw his hat into the ring for Archbishop of Canterbury” (Robin Saunders); “Miss Marple is just finishing her tea, but will be here in a minute” (Richard Hough); “Enthusiastic participants in the Games & Entertainments fancy-dress party included Father Brown, the Vicar of Dibley, and Reverend Green” (Alison Rollin); “Fr Brown was obliged to embrace the modern era” (Julia Norman).
“We came for the vestry, stayed for the topiary” (Giles Cotterill); “We are all so happy to have Father Brown here with us today” (Ann Fitzpatrick); “We’re sticking with ‘Massy Church’” (John Appleby); “Yes, I thought this would be my last series of Father Brown” (Julian Ashton); “Father Brown has fingered another suspect” (Martin Kettle); “I’m high church, so I look down on them both. I’m broad church, so I look down on her but I look up to him. I’m low church. I know my place” (Peter M. Potter); “Three for tea, please” (Helen Mclaughlin); “The Three Aces” (Robert Shooter); “Father Brown and his retiring stunt double were surprised by the new stunt double chosen by the Casting Director” (Jo Mash); “A cappella always sounds better with a cappello on your head” (Paulette Yallop); “Everyone is dying to get in to this show!” (Malcolm Evans).
“A perfect sunny morning in the vicarage garden? Father Brown knew that appearances could be deceiving!” (Mark Parry); “Three priests and without a murdered dead body to bury” (Chris Coupe); “Padre, vicar, priest. . . Forgive me, I have synonymed” (Becky Jenkins); “Father Brown was pleased to have solved the riddle of the red spectacles” (Michael Foster); “Ecumenism (with a smile) personified” (Richard Strudwick); “Sheila grabbed a selfie before Father Brown put her in the police van” (Paul Strange); “The Three Wise Rectors: see no hermeneutics, hear no hermeneutics, speak no hermeneutics” (Robin Morgan); “Let your light shine before others — and your clerical collars, too” (Anthony Greenman).
“The clergy meeting was going well . . . until someone mentioned the flower rota” (Andrew Hindley); “Mrs McCarthy’s replacement was a perfect fit!” (Max O’Donnell); “Spot the real priest!” (Patricia Watson); “The two wise men and one slightly wiser woman” (Scott Humm); “I look up to him and up to him” (Don Manley).
As ever, the winner receives a prize of Fairtrade chocolate, courtesy of Divine Chocolate.
