St Martin’s Anglican Church in the UK has started accepting bitcoins, the peer to peer Internet currency favoured by money launderers, organised crime and drug dealers.

Apparently, the church wants to be “in touch with what’s going on around us” and, in a way, I suppose it has succeeded. Anything to be relevant.

From here:

A London church has become the first in the country to accept internet currency Bitcoins in its collection plate.

The Rev Chris Brice of St Martin’s Anglican Parish Church in Gospel Oak said the innovation showed that “we are people in touch with what’s going on around us”.