Once, you couldn’t move for people talking up the Sunday Assembly. These are secular gatherings, first held in London in 2013, which replicate church services in most ways except a faith in God. Yet they have all the trappings: a Sunday service in which there are the equivalent of hymns or at least communal singing, a sermon or exhortation, coffee afterwards, a nice sense of community.
A number of journalists wrote about the phenomenon, sharing their experience of discarding religion and finding something to fill the “God gap” on a Sunday morning.
