How to collar new recruits

NEVER forget to wear your club tie, for you never know its benefits.

The Reverend Malcolm Weisman, the veteran roving minister to small Jewish communities, was off to a Council of Christian and Jews meeting in Leicester the other day. When he stopped for coffee at a service station, there was a man selling AA membership inside who noticed the interfaith organisation’s official tie he was wearing.

“‘That’s an unusual tie,’ he asked me,” said Mr Weisman. “When I explained what it was it, he said he was a lay preacher and he must join the CCJ.”