Moving in mysterious ways

Our Mystery Worshipper is perplexed when they turn up for church but the doors are locked

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Highway Church, Penryn

A very warm welcome, a decent cup of coffee, and a sermon on Thomas as a biblical superhero
13 Aug 23
Cornwall, UK

Christ’s Church of the Valley, Phoenix

Sermon by video, a communion snack, and ‘delicious coffee and food’ nowhere to be found at a Phoenix megachurch
3 Sep 23
Arizona, USA

St Michael’s by-the-Sea, Carlsbad

An organ and violin prelude top the bill at a service that was ‘high as a kite on its way to heaven’
13 Aug 23
California, USA
Glendale First United Methodist

First United Methodist, Glendale

A home-grown hymn sandwich of a service at a church with elusive service times
23 Jul 23
Arizona, USA
St George's, Bickley

St George’s, Bickley

Bells and smells, beautiful music, appropriate hymns, plus delicious coffee and cake
2 Jul 23
Bromley, London

Farm Street, Mayfair

Latin mass and a parish picnic at Mayfair’s Jesuit Church
4 Jun 23
London

St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield

Watching voluminous clouds of incense process down the aisle on Whitsunday
28 May 23
London

St Margaret’s, Barking Abbey

Farewell to the organist in a full and friendly church on Pentecost Sunday
28 May 23
Barking, London

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Sts Peter and Paul Oldham

St Peter & St Paul & All Saints

26 Sep 10
Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
All Saints, Traverse City, MI (Exterior)

All Saints

12 Jul 15
Traverse City, Michigan, USA

Church of Our Lady

All done decently and reverently – but where were the communion ministers?
24 Apr 22
St John's Wood, London
Park Cities Presby, Dallas, TX

Park Cities Presbyterian

The friendliest church of any our reporter ever encountered
9 Nov 08
Dallas, Texas, USA
St Jude, Grand Rapids

St Jude

Wonderful singing, but all the hymns were cut down to the bare minimum
9 Jul 22
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Dingwall Castle Street, Dingwall, Scotland

Castle Street Church

1 Jun 08
Dingwall, Scotland
Dormition of the Mother of God, Phoenix, AZ (Exterior)

Dormition of the Mother of God

Understated yet beautiful: O Maria!
15 Aug 14
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Queens College Chapel

Brass bird and advice for God - but splendid!
23 Feb 20
Oxford, England
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