My faith is important to me. I’m a Christian, but I haven’t always been a good one and I don’t like choosing just one denomination. I think there are things both good and bad about all kinds of Christianity.

I love going to Church on a Sunday: there’s something so spiritual about joining in with a large group of people, singing worship songs and praying together. I love the liturgy we use in the Anglican Church I go to, but I also love services that don’t have written liturgy and that wend their way through faith bubbling with eagerness like a stream. I appreciate occasional Cathedral services or (totally weird, but true) a Latin Mass. When I was a teenager I couldn’t see why anyone would want to worship in a language that was dead, strange, meaningless. Now, of course, I know that the words we say are, to an extent, immaterial. It’s the heart that matters.

I also love small groups worshipping and studying together. I think house churches, life groups, bible study groups or other groups when believers join together to study, share, support and sustain each other are brilliant. When we learn to set ourselves aside and concentrate on God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, wonderful things happen.

And I love the Bible. What other text has so many parables, poems, historical stories, instructions for life, collected sayings of wisdom and more besides just in one book? Less a book and more a library, of course.

Faith, and belonging to a group of people who believe the same as you, leads naturally to hygge. The security, safety and support you should feel as a member of a faith movement should lead naturally to hygge: to a feeling of relaxed togetherness in each other’s houses, or to a natural desire to help and hold each other at times of stress. A cup of tea or coffee can be the best solution available in many situations, when advice is useless and action impossible, while the extended Church family can provide support and advice in ways that a smaller household or partner just can’t.