Author: David Paterson

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Sofia

Over my Head, I Hear Music in the Air

David Paterson reflects on ’embodiment’ in various religions and as the crucial Christian myth. I was asked to write something about embodiment, so I’ve been living with the idea for over a month, with all...

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Sofia

Lent and Easter

As a founder member of SOF Network, David Paterson has lived through Lent and celebrated Easter for many decades, sometimes as a minister and sometimes as an ‘ordinary person’. Why religion at all? The Sea...

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Sofia, Reviews

Dethroning Mammon

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2017 by Justin Welby. Bloomsbury Continuum (London 2016). 192 pages. £9.99. Justin Welby writes for those who see the Bible as the word of God. So I found the...

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Sofia, Reviews

Review: My Jewish Soul by Anthony Gimpel

My Jewish Soulby Anthony GimpelChristians Aware (Leicester, 2013) pbk. £7.50. ISBN 9781873372432 This is a most remarkable book. Since Anthony and Ann Gimpel arrived in Loughborough until now they have made a deep impact on...

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Sofia

What Our Religions Mean to Us

Pursuing his interest in inter-faith dialogue, David Paterson invited some of his friends to state briefly what their religions mean to them. This is a bit of an experiment. When the Sea of Faith Network...

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Sofia, Reviews

Is God Still an Englishman?

How Britain Lost its Faith (but Found New Soul) By Cole Moreton Abacus (Little, Brown Group). (London 2011 pbk). 384 pages. £9.99. I took to this book from the first few pages, and it continued...

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Sofia

A Vision to Offer

A Vision to Offer David Paterson looks back on the history of SOF Network and thinks about the future. There’s an energetic dialogue going on now. Antireligious atheists (Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and others usually get...

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