BBC NEWS | UK | Dog collar clergy ‘risk attack’
Doesn’t surprise me. It happened to me once. Quite random, in the street. No witnesses. Later I realised it was someone with a drug problem we’d been trying to help through a youth ministry. Persecution for my faith? Probably not.
And it rather blows the romantic idea some traditional church members have that wearing ‘the collar’ makes you approachable to non-churchgoers. I’ve never known that in fifteen years. The best it gets is, ‘Hello, Father,’ from people I presume either to be Catholics or those searching for some way to be polite. I’ve never asked my female minister friends what reactions they get.
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Big Circumstance 
… err, well the first time I wore a collar as a student minister I was greeted with the wonderful remark: “We didn’t know it was fancy dress today…”…
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