See these three people above; they all have two things in common. Firstly, and most importantly, they have been granted the honour of having their images posted on The Green Man. What more recognition and fulfilment could they want?

Secondly they are all big fans of the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day". I have attempted to watch this movie several times and never quite made it to the end, which just shows how lacking in religious insight I am because it is being held up by a number of mainstream religions as embodying the core principles of their faith.

Accordingly the Museum of Modern Art has included it in it's "The Hidden God: Film and Faith," retrospective of religious films. Christians believe that "the movie beautifully expresses Christian belief,", Rabbi's are using it because of it's illustration of the Jewish faith and the Buddhists are claiming it is quintessentially Buddhist.

The woman on the left is Angela Zito, a co-director of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University who screens it in her first year Buddhist class because "Groundhog Day," is a cinematic version of the teachings in Mahayana Buddhism, known as "the greater vehicle."

In the middle, is Rabbi Niles Goldstein who sees it as an allegory for the Jewish faith.

On right is a picture of a priest I picked up from the net to balance out the list. Appologies to him if he doesn't like Groundhog Day.

Read more in the New York Times.