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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

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

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

‘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

Travelling abroad this summer? Why not plan to warm a foreign pew in a church where you don’t know the language?

Amanda B. Reckondwyth, long-standing editor of the Mystery Worshipper, processes down the aisle at the end of her service

A new podcast takes a trip through the Bible but leaves one significant item of baggage at home – religion

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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