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

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

The story of a soldier who turned himself in to the religious police is tweeted by an historian

Huw Spanner recently came across letters from the Western Front, written by his great-uncle, a devout evangelical Christian.

A chance discovery in a secondhand bookshop opens up a history of books where the resurrection goes on trial

First the church tried to subvert it, then sanitize it, but why not try embracing Halloween?

Simon Parke spins the hamster wheel psyche of Boris Johnson, in an interview from 2004

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

Mark Dowd talks about the beginning of his 'life of contradiction' in an extract from his memoir, Queer and Catholic

Anne Richards asks: How can churches welcome people so they don’t end up feeling invisible and lonely?

Steve Goddard's new novel time-travels between the Summer of Love and the world of now, with a little help from Sgt Pepper

If you think sex and hymns don't have much in common, take another look at your hymn book, says Simon Jenkins