Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

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• Francis Spufford:

  The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisabl

• Francis Spufford:

  I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in,

• Francis Spufford:

  There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using dif

• Francis Spufford:

  In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, neve

• Francis Spufford:

  I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot kn

• Francis Spufford:

  What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's no

• Francis Spufford:

  Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same

• Francis Spufford:

  Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetiti

• Francis Spufford:

  What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the

• Francis Spufford:

  I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed