[1] Ship of Fools was founded and is edited by Simon Jenkins (editor) and Stephen Goddard (co-editor).

They also perform a show, Ship of Fools Live, in churches, universities and elsewhere, with excerpts from the site's magazine content.

The diversity of the users range from complete atheists to evangelical and liberal Christians.

Notable features of Ship of Fools website are: "Church of Fools", an online 3D interactive church, originally ran as a multi-user environment from May to September 2004,[4][5] before moving to its own website and eventually becoming St Pixels[6] (whose last service was on Facebook in 2015).

Ship of Fools also ran a Ned Flanders Night at the Christian festival Greenbelt.