Review of David Galston’s Restoring Humanism to Religion (2025), which argues that religion must recover its humanist roots through ‘religiousness’. The reviewer admires the book but doubts that ‘religiousness’ is the right word for a...
Two reflections on Network publications: Teresa Wallace on editing This is My Story (1998) and Time and Tide (2001), and David Boulton on his books on religion as a human creation, including A Reasonable Faith...
The intention is that all of us will have the chance to familiarise ourselves with the ‘10 Hypotheses’ along with David’s original introduction, in which he invites all of us to: “discard what doesn’t hold...
Ten draft hypotheses on what Sea of Faith members might broadly say together: religion, gods and scripture are human creations, faith is of this world, and justice matters, offered for debate not as a creed.
David Boulton reviews Embodiment by Dinah Livingstone.
David Boulton reviews Peter Jarman’s pamphlet Seen and Unseen, in which a Quaker physicist and peace activist reflects on nontheist Quaker and Buddhist faith and on wonder at the natural world.
David Boulton reviews Stephen Yeo’s biography of George Jacob Holyoake, who coined ‘secularism’ and ‘non-theism’, and sets out Holyoake’s ethical secularism and its Quaker non-theist echoes.
David Boulton reviews Rutger Bregman’s Utopia for Realists, which promotes a 15-hour week and universal basic income to end poverty, while Boulton argues that utopia is an aspiration rather than a destination.
David Boulton’s SOF conference talk defends utopian writing, from Genesis and More to Winstanley and Morris, as enabling dreams that inspire action rather than political blueprints.
Michael Morton reviews Don Cupitt’s Jesus and Philosophy, which draws on the Jesus Seminar to portray Jesus as a secular, antinomian teacher of radical humanism whose kingdom dream shapes values.
