‘The church is less honest than the Bible about unanswered prayer’

As a new edition of God on Mute is published, en speaks to its author, Pete Greig

Pete Greig arrives a few minutes late online for our interview, having grappled – as we all do – with some issues relating to Zoom.

He is anxious to clarify that our conversation will appear in writing, and not in the form of a video, as he has some doubts about the colour of the spare room curtains behind him. I say I think they look faintly liturgical, which does not seem to reassure him.