Sofia, Reviews
Review: Navigating Uncertainty by Ian Scoones
Digby Hartridge reviews Ian Scoones’s argument that marginal communities in the Global South may be better placed than ‘sophisticated’ Western societies to cope with major disruptions.
Digby Hartridge reviews Ian Scoones’s argument that marginal communities in the Global South may be better placed than ‘sophisticated’ Western societies to cope with major disruptions.
Journalist David McRaney has written what amounts to a very readable how-to manual on polite debate. He’d noticed some very rapid swings of popular opinion in America on gay marriage and smoking, where commentators were...
Reviewed by Digby Hartridge A novelist’s approach to the Bible Stories in the Scriptures offers a way of reading familiar texts from a fresh perspective. Robert Crompton comes to the ancient narratives in the role...
I enjoyed the recent issue of Sofia. The theme, of course, resonates particularly with anyone African born; my sister-in-law the Vicar would love Tony Windross’s article on baptisms; Dominic Kirkham was as ever excellent. I...
My mother’s and, I think, my grandfather’s hero was Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952). He had attended Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford, where he knew the poet Laurence Binyon (remembered as the composer of ‘For the...
A review of A Liberation for the Earth: climate, race and Cross by A.M. Ranawana. SCM Press (Norwich 2022) 256 pages. £25. Anupama Ranawana is a Catholic theologian. Climate Change is the great issue facing...
In my eightieth year in the middle of a pandemic, what I always thought to be my duty, to make sense of existence, took on a new urgency. I hasten to add: such introspection is...
SOF Sift A column in which Network members think out loud about SOF and their own quest. Post Mortem My wife and I each lost a parent last year. Early in the year I lost...
You look and you listen and feel and love till your God-given brain tells you in sorrow there is no God, and it tells you there is no second chance, and no time to lose....