[Not] Women and The Church

As I sat enjoying a Carol Service recently, my mind did what my mind does - and wandered. It wandered onto the subject of women and the Church (in a good way, so clean your mind out with soap and water). I reflected on the situation in the Church of England, and the organisation that represents women in the church. It caused me to snort audibly (during a prayerful silence, regrettably) when I noticed now unfortunate it was that Women In The Church would have generated the acronym WITCH - and I suppose that has a great deal to do with the slightly more detatched nomenclature Women And The Church or WATCH. 

My mind trundled along the towpath towards an organisation for Men and The Church, noting that it would bring to birth a perhaps suitably named group called MATCH. It then occured to me that '...And The Church' lent itself well to a whole array of appropriate acronyms:

MATCH - Men And The Church

MysMATCH - Mysogenistic Men And The Church
REMATCH - Returning Men and The Church [added]

CATCH - Cricketers And The Church

LATCH - Lockmakers And The Church

SWATCH - Sellers of Wallpaper And The Church

PATCH - Puppies And The Church

THATCH - Tile-less Houses And The Church

SATCHEL - Schoolkids And The Church et L'Eglise (an Anglo-French conglomeration)

DESPATCH - Death and Embalming Service Providers And The Church

SNATCH - Stealers, Nickers And The Church

ATTACH - Adhering To Tradition At Church

HATCH - Homebirths And The Church

BATCH - Bakers and The Church

RATCHET -  Restorers to the Automotive Trade and the Church to Enable Torque

...and taking the '...In The Church' model

DITCH - Diggers In The Church

BITCH - Bigots In The Church

LYTCH - Last time You visit The Church

TITCH - Tiny people In The Church

PITCH - Putters In The Church

GLITCH - Glory Lost In The Church

SNITCH - Storytelling Needlessly In The Church

ITCH - Irritation And The Church

NEITZSCHE - Now That's just Silly...

...plus random others

MUCH - Mis-Understood Church

BOTCH - Bloggers Of The Church

WRETCH - Weird Reaction To Eating at The Church

CROTCH - Central Regions Of The Church

ZILCH - Zoroastrianism In The Local Church

PREACH - Persistent Rehearsed Expulsion of AIR and The Church

...and so the list goes on. There will be many that I have forgotten or not thought about, and if you read this and think of any, please add them below. What's in a name, they say. Quite a lot it would appear.