Goines On: Sinning

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A niece of Goines emailed him that she wished they hadn’t made the vicar in the new season of Grantchester “quite so weak sinfully.” Goines and his wife hadn’t watched it yet, but they decided to catch it that evening. And when he told her what his niece had complained of, Mrs. Goines told him what the first vicar she had ever heard had to say about churches. Goines realized instantly that this was the stuff limericks are made of:

Grantchester pleased her in early innings,
’fore they scripted vicar’s weekly sinnings;
    someone said, against such ’plaints,
    “Churches aren’t hotels for saints,
they’re hospitals for sinners”: beginnings.

    Goines’ lips curled into a smile at how the “beginnings” ending alluded to Christian theology, with its rebirth in Christ, its alpha & omega.

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