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Purgatory
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Hell
Is Mel Gibson one bead short of a full rosary? Here's the place for rants and vitriol. |
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| Whatever happened to Billy Shears? |
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| Steve Goddard has a new novel out, bridging the teenage world of the 1967 Summer of Love, and the grown-up world of now, 50 years on. We stuck a vinyl copy of Sgt. Pepper on the turntable and asked Steve to tell us all about it. |
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| Bosoms and ebenezers |
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| You might think that sex and hymns would make unlikely bedfellows, but that's reckoning without double entendre. Simon Jenkins delves into his copy of Hymns Ancient and Freudian, in a chapter from his new book, Jumble Sales of the Apocalypse. |
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| Trekking on the Camino |
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| One of our best-travelled Mystery Worshippers has been trekking along the back roads of Spain on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. Read about the churches he visited in Aragon and Castile. |
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Red shorts in the choir
Our Mystery Worshippers have been busy 'getting fresh' for Lent in St Albans, and spotting red shorts in the choir in Phoenix, Arizona. |
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Upside down Bible
A new book looks at Jesus's parables through the eyes of atheists, trade unionists and sex workers. Symon Hill explains. |
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Judging by numbers
Fiona Gibson responds to megachurch pastor Andy Stanley's comment that parents who take their children to small churches are "stinking selfish". |
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Hairshirt for Archbush
Canterbury's hairiest Archbishop of the past 1,000 years has been awarded his very own t-shirt, with Darwin, Freud and Dickens. |
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Quizzed about the sermon
The Mystery Worshipper visits Westminster Chapel and is quizzed in the coffee queue about the sermon. |
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Beware the warrior archaeologists
Rowan Williams explains how 'warrior archaeologists' are manipulating the past and using it as a weapon. |
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Religion must be a laughing matter
In the wake of the murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, Simon Jenkins argues that all religions need to be satirised. |
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Love, secrets and footie
Tim Pike reviews Steve Goddard's novel, Rattles and Rosettes, the story of two football fans living a century apart. |
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Holy smoke!
Introducing our first print publication in more than two decades, a novel embracing the WW1 trenches and football. |
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God and cake at the Sunday Assembly
The Mystery Worshipper calls in on godless church the Sunday Assembly in Belfast. |
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The canon, the dean and the wardrobe
A Mystery Worshipper is on hand to witness CS Lewis inducted into Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey. |
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Shaming the tiger
Gavin Drake investigates the unravelling story of kung fu champion turned prison evangelist Tony Anthony. |
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Holy dispenser!
Put an end to deadly raging epidemics breaking out at your communion services with this handy host dispenser. |
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Global warm-up
The death of ecosystems is hardly laugh-a-minute stuff, but comedian Paul Kerensa performs a set on climate change. |
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