Posts by Ship of Fools feature

Rupert Loydell takes issue with ideas about evangelism now and back in the time of the 1970s and 80s Jesus Movement

‘We are left with incense, sermons for the stupid, moist handshakes, maybe weak coffee after church’ – a poem by Rupert Loydell

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

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

Rupert Loydell looks back to the collaborations and collisions between church culture and the wider culture in the 1970s and 80s

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

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Huw Spanner talks to Brian Greene, populariser of science, about our search for meaning in an evolving universe

Andrew Walker takes a fresh look at Doubting Thomas, a man who liked to get his facts straight

A poem by Rupert Loydell reflects on tools for learning how to pray

Three splendid specimens from Fergus Butler-Gallie's celebrated Field Guide to the English Clergy.

In an extract from her book, In the Days of Rain, Rebecca Stott unpicks a crisis in the world of the Exclusive Brethren