Author: David Boulton

Review: Restoring Humanism to Religion by David Galston

Anniversaries of Publications by the Sea of Faith Network

Looking Back — Teresa Wallace Time and Tide was published 25 years ago, in 2001. The editor, Teresa Wallace, reflects on her contribution to SoFN publications. I am the daughter of a clergyman, and have...

10 Hypotheses – 25 years on and counting…

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 hypotheses

What are we FOR? Sea of Faith is often faced with the challenge: “We know what you don’t believe, now tell us what you do”. And we reply that we have no dogmas, no creeds...

David Boulton reviews Embodiment by Dinah Livingstone

Embodiment by Dinah Livingstone (Katabasis, London, 2019). Pbk. 62 pages. £10. Dinah Livingstone is probably best known to Sofia readers as the magazine’s editor and, as such, a leading light in the SOF Network: a...

David Boulton reviews Seen and Unseen by Peter Jarman

Peter Jarman is a member of the Institute of Physics, which works to advance scientific education, research and application. After graduating in nuclear physics at Imperial College he studied the effects of the nuclear devastation...

Review: Victorian Agitator: George Jacob Holyoake by Stephen Yeo

EER Edward Everett Root Publishers (Brighton 2017). Hbk. 246 pages. £65. ‘Nontheism’ is not an elegant word. Half Latin and half Greek, it lacks the worldliness of one and the beauty of the other. Why...

Review: Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman

Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman. Bloomsbury (London, 2017). Pbk. 316 pages. £8.09. Let’s start with what this attractively titled book isn’t. It’s not another account of the western tradition of Utopian thinking from More...

Let’s Hear it for Utopia!

Let’s Hear it for Utopia! The idea of Utopia is o en dismissed and derided today. In his SOF Conference talk David Boulton gave a passionate defence of Utopia, not as a blueprint but an...

Jesus and Philosophy

Michael Morton reviews Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters) by Francis McDonagh (ed.) Orbis Books (New York 2009). 189 pages. £10.99. ISBN: 978-1-5705-823-2. reviews So, Don has come back to Jesus! More than...