Along the way of St James

Follow our Mystery Worshipper along the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela

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St Paul's

Welcoming and committed – a rather special place – plus wrestling!
20 Oct 19
Deptford, London

St Barnabas with St Bartholomew

Park your buggies at the baptismal font – and don’t be a commemorative mug!
20 Oct 19
Heigham Grove, Norwich, England

In praise of holy fools

In celebration of the feast day of our patron saint, Simon Jenkins muses on holy fools, ancient and modern
12 Jul 19

Eccentrics, nutters, prodigals and rogues

Three splendid specimens from Fergus Butler-Gallie's celebrated Field Guide to the English Clergy.
18 Dec 18
Pastor Orr dangles above his congregation in Mississippi

Lo! He comes on wires descending

Mississippi pastor drops in on his congregation to tell them about the Second Coming
30 Nov 18
Auto de Fe in the Plaza Mayor de Madrid, 1683

Reporting yourself to the Inquisition

The story of a soldier who turned himself in to the religious police is tweeted by an historian
21 Nov 18
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Should Thought for the Day lose its religion?

OK, but wouldn't that make it like almost every other bit of the BBC?
14 Nov 18
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Thanks a lot, Lord

When a Durham Cathedral service sheet took on the tone of a sulky teenager
14 Nov 18
Private Gerald Thompson

A Christian in Hell Fire Corner

Huw Spanner recently came across letters from the Western Front, written by his great-uncle, a devout evangelical Christian.
14 Nov 18
Photo of the title page of The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Ressurection of Jesus by Thomas Sherlock

A cold case from zero AD

A chance discovery in a secondhand bookshop opens up a history of books where the resurrection goes on trial
7 Nov 18
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A boob in the hymn sheet

Heaven alone knows whether the congregation were still able to sing after verse 4
22 Oct 18

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The Temple Church

Babies good as gold, wine in three colours, baptism in a punchbowl, bishop upstaged by the organ
28 Jul 19
London, England

St Mary Abbots

Eucharist or Matins? Don’t ask the bickering couple!
12 May 19
Kensington, London

Washington National Cathedral

The Holy Spirit brought about something very special at Pentecost in America’s cathedral
9 Jun 19
Washington, DC

Chapel Car Bible Church

All aboard! Next and final stop: Heaven! But no circumcisions, please.
28 Jul 19
Rawlins, Wyoming, USA
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