Moving in mysterious ways

Our Mystery Worshipper is perplexed when they turn up for church but the doors are locked

Read more

Highway Church, Penryn

A very warm welcome, a decent cup of coffee, and a sermon on Thomas as a biblical superhero
13 Aug 23
Cornwall, UK

Christ’s Church of the Valley, Phoenix

Sermon by video, a communion snack, and ‘delicious coffee and food’ nowhere to be found at a Phoenix megachurch
3 Sep 23
Arizona, USA

St Michael’s by-the-Sea, Carlsbad

An organ and violin prelude top the bill at a service that was ‘high as a kite on its way to heaven’
13 Aug 23
California, USA
Glendale First United Methodist

First United Methodist, Glendale

A home-grown hymn sandwich of a service at a church with elusive service times
23 Jul 23
Arizona, USA
St George's, Bickley

St George’s, Bickley

Bells and smells, beautiful music, appropriate hymns, plus delicious coffee and cake
2 Jul 23
Bromley, London

Farm Street, Mayfair

Latin mass and a parish picnic at Mayfair’s Jesuit Church
4 Jun 23
London

St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield

Watching voluminous clouds of incense process down the aisle on Whitsunday
28 May 23
London

St Margaret’s, Barking Abbey

Farewell to the organist in a full and friendly church on Pentecost Sunday
28 May 23
Barking, London

Most popular:

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
St Lucas, Toledo, OH

St Lucas

13 Aug 17
Toledo, Ohio, USA
Crown Church of Scotland (Interior)

Crown Court Church of Scotland

Standing in the need of prayer - but no hand waving, please!
9 Sep 12
Covent Garden, London
Holy Trinity, Gran Canaria

Holy Trinity

2 Dec 11
Puerto de Mogán, Las Palmas, Canary Islands

St Laurence

A lot of salt, but fun nonetheless
9 Feb 20
Hilmarton, England
Cornerstone Christian, Tampa, Florida, USA

Cornerstone Christian Church

Our reporter observed that the keyboard player never actually played the keyboard
17 Oct 09
Tampa, Florida, USA
St James Memorial, Orbost, Victoria, Australia

St James Memorial

Friendly and comforting - but oh, that coffee!
31 Dec 06
Orbost, Victoria, Australia
St Elisabeth the New Martyr, Wallasey (Exterior)

St Elisabeth the New Martyr

The Kursk Root Icon is welcomed in a ceremony of a style all its own
6 Jun 14
Wallasey, England
© Ship of Fools