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Sojourner Truth portrait

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Sojourner Truth, the former slave, abolitionist, Methodist preacher and campaigner for women’s rights, died today in 1883
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St Mary Magdalene, Paddington, London

St Mary Magdalene

A full-throated organ and cherubs in the ceiling on Remembrance Sunday
13 Nov 22
Paddington, London
St Agnes, Algoma, Michigan

St Agnes by-the-Lake

Bells and smells without the pomp and circumstance at a quiet lakeside church
16 Oct 22
Algoma, Wisconsin, USA
St Anthony of Padua, Grand Rapids

St Anthony of Padua

Country and jazz version of ‘Amazing Grace’ shines out at a Polka Mass
9 Oct 22
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
St George's, Paris

St George’s

Perfectly well-behaved baby of sunny disposition saves baptism from too much solemnity
2 Oct 22
Paris, France

On holiday with the Lord

Travelling abroad this summer? Why not plan to warm a foreign pew in a church where you don’t know the language?
4 Jul 22
Amanda B. Reckondwyth churches

Mystery, worship, and Miss Amanda

Amanda B. Reckondwyth, long-standing editor of the Mystery Worshipper, processes down the aisle at the end of her service
30 Jun 22

Making the Bible wholly buyable

A new podcast takes a trip through the Bible but leaves one significant item of baggage at home – religion
27 Jun 22
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Looking down the wrong end of a telescope

Rupert Loydell looks back to the collaborations and collisions between church culture and the wider culture in the 1970s and 80s
20 Jan 22
The Gospel According to a Sitcom Writer

What’s the first joke in John’s Gospel?

James Cary, BBC sitcom writer, who can’t help tuning into the comedy of the Bible, shares an underappreciated joke from John
12 Jun 21

Streaming with Laughter… the quest for the funniest online service fails

Spotted a streaming service fail? Nominate your best entry for our Streaming with Laughter poll
13 Apr 21

Baby pilgrim candles

They’re candles, they’re kind of Catholic, and they have baby toes. Want to buy a pair? I should Rococo
28 Aug 20

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St Saviour in the Marshes, Hackney, London

St Saviour in the Marshes

Golden cherubs look down on the tuneless bleatings of a lifeless congregation
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Hackney, London

St Magnus-the-Martyr

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