Or at least his Rolex did. How I wish I could be on the cool team. So the Church which spent much of last year lamenting its lack of millennium prominence is suddenly getting coverage of biblical proportions. We may harbour doubts about God's omnipotence, but there is no doubting his omnipresence. And yet, with Easter three weeks away, while He can undoubtedly fill cinema seats and art galleries, His difficulty is still putting bums on pews.
Church attendances continue to fall spectacularly.
The most recent survey found that numbers at mainline Anglican, Catholic and Methodist churches have declined from 4.7million in 1989 to 3.7million in 1998. An Express investigation a day later revealed that diocese have been selling off historic assets to fund clergy pensions. A new MORI poll, Mapping Britain's Moral Values, finds the Church one of the least respected institutions in Britain - only the police are held in lower regard. But the enigma of Britain's spiritual health is captured in the same poll, which reports that while less than a quarter of those questioned attended church, more than half thought religion important. We believe but we don't want to take it too far.