As one of the inspirations for the BBC2 sitcom Rev, and host of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, his fan base is now arguably as large as, if not larger than, it was in his days in the 1980s as a musician with Jimmy Somerville in the Communards. In his forthcoming autobiography, Fathomless Riches: or how I went from pop to pulpit, Anglican vicar the Revd Richard Coles (above) explains his journey of faith. Currently parish priest in Finedon in the Peterborough Diocese, he became a Christian after leaving the band. Through a mutual friend he was introduced to Sara Maitland, the writer who became a Catholic and is now a Tablet columnist, who told us how she helped him discover his Christian faith. Coles, attracted to Anglo-Catholicism, was received into the Catholic Church, although he la