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Time-travel news

St Dominic was born today in 1170, and went on to found his order of preaching friars after debating with Gnostics in France
8 Aug

Buccleuch and Greyfriars

Psalm singing, contemporary hymns, a Sunday school prize-giving, and a very warm welcome
22 Jun 25
Edinburgh, Scotland

Bethesda, Hay on Wye

An outreach event based on CS Lewis and Narnia plays to a home crowd
25 May 25
Powys, Wales
Open air Pentecost service in Bornheim, Frankfurt

Pentecost service at the Bornheim Watch Tower

A cold and windy outdoor service celebrates the wind of change of the Spirit
8 Jun 25
Frankfurt, Germany
St Giles, Reading

St Giles-in-Reading, Reading

Sung mass with incense, huge candle-power, Marian devotions, lovely vestments, and action with birettas
1 Jun 25
Berkshire, England

The evangelical mind

Rupert Loydell takes issue with ideas about evangelism now and back in the time of the 1970s and 80s Jesus Movement
26 May 24

The deconstructed angel

‘We are left with incense, sermons for the stupid, moist handshakes, maybe weak coffee after church’ – a poem by Rupert Loydell
28 Feb 24

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

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

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

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St Luke's, Charlton

St Luke’s, Charlton

Full marks for a friendly welcome at a church with creaky pews and chocolate biscuits
11 May 25
London, England
Global Kingdom Ministries, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Global Kingdom Ministries

People excited about their faith - but worship or performance?
4 Oct 08
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

St Andrew’s, Glendale

The simplicity of the service plus preaching from the heart earns this church a perfect 10
4 May 25
Arizona, USA

National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette

Slain in the Spirit, or tripped and fell? Maybe it was the campfire songs.
28 Apr 19
Attleboro, Mssachusetts, USA
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