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Lights! Camera! Action!
The Mystery Worshipper is dazzled and dismayed by cameras and monitors at a communion service in Trinity Wall Street, NYC.
Sleeping preachers...
Some sermons are so torpid that even the preacher sleeps through them. Read Steve Tomkins' latest Loose Canon.
Humble heavyweight
Iwan Russell Jones reflects on the unique contribution of leading African theologian Kwame Bediako, who died in the summer.
Church of the Holy Left Hook
Time-sharing empty tombs just doesn't work, as our latest FruitTube clip reveals.
The church militant
There's little that Christians do quite so well as protesting. Just a shame they're not more selective, says Steve Tomkins.
The bishop and the actor
A famous bishop meets a famous comedian... but could it be they are one and the same person?
Is Obama, like, the Antichrist?
On the blogosphere's lunatic fringe, the choice before America now is McCain... or the Devil.
Greenbelt 2008... the diary
Simon Parke has been to the UK's Greenbelt festival and has seen gongs and angels and a guru's son.
Didgeridoos for the bishop
Australia's first woman bishop is saluted by didgeridoos in a packed Perth Cathedral.
Dark Knight in a dark place
Batman is going through a mid-heroic life crisis: is he the right hero for Gotham City? Simon Parke sees the new Batman movie.
Rowan Williams discovered
The white-maned Archbishop has been found practising alternative theology at his hideout.
Crucifixions daily
Visit the Holy Land Experience in Florida (featuring a daily crucifixion "live show") via the Fruitcake Zone.
Faith-based furniture
Meet the latest in our Gadgets for God: the Jesus Chair, a tasteful addition to the holy home.
At Obama's ex-church
An unsurprisingly fiery sermon from Revd Wright awaited our visiting Mystery Worshipper.
Bric-a-brac theology
In the aftermath of a jumble sale, Andrew Rumsey ruminates on mug trees and china kittens.
Poetry of fools
The results of our poetry competition, celebrating the Ship's 10th birthday, are now in.
Screwed-up saints
Sixties Christian guru Francis Schaeffer has had his life raked over by his son, Frank, to the outrage of Schaeffer disciples.
Sexing up Narnia
We talk to Douglas Gresham, film producer and stepson of CS Lewis, about Prince Caspian and the sexing up of Narnia.
Benny and the junk
In the wake of the Pope's American gig, here is the Ship of Fools guide to the top 10 papal souvenirs.
Faith, hope and charity shop
Vote for the worst Christian album cover of all time – rescued from second-hand retailers worldwide.
MLK: unrestful Christian
40 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Iwan Russell Jones reflects on King's costly commitment to Christian unrest.
