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Beachcomber: Secretions of Reality

A REASONABLE 4 FAITH Introducing the Sea of Faith Network Fleshing Out Faith A new resource book from SCM examining the ; relationship between our bodies and our faith. ¢ Will Christians ever learn to...

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Beachcomber: How I Wonder What I Know

SOF 42 / July 2000 beachcomber by Alison Webster how I wonder what I know I’ve mentioned it before in this column, but the time has come for a more thorough exploration and analysis of...

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Beachcomber: In Search of Startlement

That wasn’t the only “unholy alliance” that emerged between and amongst the four panellists at the conference. Our “identity categories”, as caricatured by our Chair, were: token Quaker (Graham Shaw), token evangelical (David Hilborn), token...

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Beachcomber: Memes or Me?

Memes or Me? is most uncharacteristic behaviour on my part, and is all because of a brief encounter with a very sexy and very attractive…new word. It was an unlikely setting for a new idea:...

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Beachcomber: But Are Our Kisses True?

But are our kisses true? “There are many kinds of kiss, but are our kisses true?” (Peter Holzapfel, photographer) “All the best things in life are love.” (Kitty North, painter) It was the dead animals...

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My Name is Miracle

Miracle… the girl whose cathedral was a cafe and whose communion wine is cappuccino… This is the story by ALISON WEBSTER which opened our 1999 conference on “What is religion for?” My name is Miracle...

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Ludo’s Credo

All in the Mind: A Farewell to God, by Ludovic Kennedy (Hodder and Stoughton) £18.99. Reviewed by Alison Webster. Sometimes people write books as therapy. Sometimes this produces brilliance; sometimes it produces work which mixes...

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Beachcomber: In Defence of Trash

Our new reviews editor begins a regular column In defence of trash ur brave and rest- lessly energetic “Seafarer” invites us on page 21), to disagree with Bryan Appleyard’s hopelessly arrogant proposition that masterpieces are...

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Being Myself: A Personal View

But in The Religion of Being the personal and the emotional are more explicit. Achingly so, I thought, in his “Inconclusion”. The following excerpt, for instance, seems to me the key to many things: “I...