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The morning service turns into a variety show, with everything applauded, even the readings

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The Publick Universal Friend

Time-travel news

Jemima Wilkinson, who became the gender-free prophet known as the Publick Universal Friend, was born today in 1752
29 Nov

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Tyler

After the sacking of its bishop, the sermon at mass is a wake-up call to put faith into action
18 Nov 23
Texas, USA

Martin Luther resurrected by AI

Martin Luther is born again as a walking, talking bot, in a bold new experiment in religion-meets-AI
19 Nov 23

St Paul Lutheran, Phoenix

Fine attention to liturgy, good preaching, well-chosen hymns, but something odd leaves our worshipper flummoxed
8 Oct 23
Arizona, USA

Jesus lends a hand

The worship group goes into meltdown when the jumbo TV screen fails before the service – by Simon Jenkins
9 Sep 23

What we hope for

‘Faith is a sales assistant in a large department store’ – a poem by Rupert Loydell
9 Sep 23

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

Strange conversations

Rupert Loydell reviews two recent books, each a conversation between friends, including nun extraordinaire Sister Wendy Beckett
22 Mar 23

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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Farm Street, Mayfair

Latin mass and a parish picnic at Mayfair’s Jesuit Church
4 Jun 23
London
Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle

Don't play with God - but my Lord, is it hot!
4 Jul 10
Belfast, Northern Ireland

St Matthew's

Solemn, quiet - and lonely - on this chilly Ash Wednesday morning
14 Feb 18
Westminster, London

Gospel Light Baptist

Friendly, eclectic, but hard to follow – and what’s behind that door?
25 Jul 21
Winder, Georgia, USA
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