Sofia
God’s right hand
After the service two weeks ago, one of our youngest members asked me a question. It had a simple two-word answer, that I gave him. The question was this: The Bible says that Jesus sits...
After the service two weeks ago, one of our youngest members asked me a question. It had a simple two-word answer, that I gave him. The question was this: The Bible says that Jesus sits...
Talk given to the 2024 SOF Conference by Anthony Freeman. Inevitably this will be a personal account, if only because (apart from Don himself) I had my life changed more dramatically than anyone else as...
Darton, Longman & Todd (London 2022). Pbk. 80 pages. £8.99. As its title promises, this is the account of one person’s religious journey and understanding. The author is an American Benedictine nun and life-long Roman...
Polebridge Press (Santa Rosa CA 2018) Pbk. 210 pages. £16. At Easter 1966 the official journal of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand carried a short article titled ‘What does the Resurrection mean?’ The author...
A shift in focus from the natural to the supernatural will have taken place when some questioning human minds – the forerunners of today’s philosophers and scientists – began to speculate about the world around...
From the Big Bang to Godby Lloyd GeeringSteele Roberts (Wellington, NZ, 2013) pbk. 194 pp. £23 inc. p&p from NZ. ISBN 978 1927242148 Like many readers of this magazine, I owe a debt of gratitude...
Anthony Freeman reviews The Devil: A Very Short Introduction by Darren Oldridge. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012. Pbk. 121 pages. £7.99. This engaging little book is well up to the high standard we expect from...
Before embarking on an answer to that puzzle, a word is needed on the status and character of good and evil. Sofia 99 March/April 2011 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden...
I have said that one New Testament author does make use of these themes, and that is St John. What follows is a kind of Easter meditation on the way John uses the Eden story...
The contributions to this collection – 23 in prose and 16 poems – are personal, in some cases intimate, and largely autobiographical reflections on ‘this life on Earth’. In many cases the authors are known...