Features

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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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 long-lost manuscript discovered in the Library of Geneva sheds new light on gloomy reformer, John Calvin

As 1000 churches go online due to coronavirus, Steve Goddard reminds us why virtual church can be so good

Simon Parke asks: How do we find hope as the uncertainty of coronavirus takes hold?