The Church of England has announced a new Eco-church, St Mary-at-Lambeth in London, dedicated to the new religion of climate-change.

The inaugural sermon will be preached by the Right Royal Wallander Greta Thunderberg from the Lutheran church of Sweden.

Greta will travel to the UK by carbon-neutral pogo stick, a journey that will take her approximately 7 weeks.

She will be accompanied by an electric support truck carrying extra springs and footpads for her pogo, sponsored by Peloton.

The text of her sermon is available online. You can search for it using the title:"Oh Lord, Save us from the Protestations of the Preachy". It's a wonderfully amusing tongue-in-cheek parody of the Sermon from the Mount.   

A spokesperson for Ms. Thunderberg commented:

Greta is currently training for her trip on her Peloton Pogo.

Unfortunately she keeps banging her head on the ceiling of her eco-Igloo which is melting a hole in her ice cap.

She is looking forward to her visit to the UK and to assisting the Church of England in its mission to rebrand itself as the Church of Climate Change in order to increase its diversity and global appeal and give it something to do. 

We asked Bill "Battler" Heslop of the Australian Climate Organization Network (ACON) for his take and he told us:

Those Poms must have gone stark raving mad inviting a Swedish webcam sensation into their church.

Don't they realise that watching her cavorting around is bound to push the congregation's temperature up sky high. And they'll have to put in one of those big projection screens to watch her on.

As if there isn't enough of this stuff online. Now they're showing it in churches and on a Sunday. For fuck's sake!

Hey Muriel! Fetch me a tinny - I'm parched.