David Lambourn reviews Unknowing God: Toward a Post-Abusive Theology by Nicholas Peter Harvey & Linda WoodheadCascade Books, (Eugene, OR, 2022). Pbk. 150 pages. £18 ‘I maintain that thought itself absolutely depends on a three-way relationship...
Horror and Hope: The Conflicted Legacy of Christianity by Dominic Kirkham. Wipf & Stock (Eugene OR, 2021). Pbk. 173 pages, £18.00. ‘We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to...
Dear Mark (If I may), I have long wanted the possibility of conversation with you and this letter is the closest that I can manage. I am hoping for a response of some kind! Since...
Dear David, Thank you for your letter I get so very few – I welcome yours because you are clearly interested in the difficulties of writing about other people and what drives them. If I...
There was no test no demon-stration no propaganda no threat no reference to any thing or any one I was not anaesthetised not neutered not overfed not branded not pheromone-marked I was simply invited to...
Workshop Report: 1. Martin Spence on the Resurrection Story in Luke. 2. David Lambourn on Ruth.
Past Perfect: Freedom from perfection in life and faith by Stephen Mitchell. Christian Alternative, (Winchester 2018). Pbk. 63 pages. £7.99. Past Perfect comes complete with commendations from recognised SOF writers. From Tony Windross: ‘The post-modern...
David Lambourn revisits The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin. Do you remember jumping on or off a bus while it was moving? For me, an Isaiah Berlin lecture has a similar excitement – and...
David Lambourn reviews Treasure Beneath the Hearth: Myth, Gospel and Spirituality Today by Edward Walker. Christian Alternative (Winchester 2015). Pbk. 148 pages. £9.99. Reviewing bad writing is simple; reviewing good writing, sometimes impossibly difficult. Reading...
Are you a SOF member who fears that we are too closely emulating the United States? Are you puzzling over how to induce friends, neighbours, relations or wider communities into a critically informed faith sufficient...
