Review of Ian Scoones, Navigating Uncertainty (2024). Scoones argues that small farmers and traders in Africa and Asia cope with uncertainty better than top-down planners, and the reviewer finds the case studies strong but the...
Review of David McRaney’s How Minds Change, on deep canvassing and street epistemology. It finds emotional insight prompts lasting changes of opinion, and urges face-to-face conversation over polarised online debate.
Review of Robert Crompton’s Stories in the Scriptures, which reads Bible stories as a novelist, asking what real situations led ordinary people to tell these tales rather than what must be believed.
A reader’s letter urging Sofia to keep addressing climate change, with a poem, Saving a Tree, rejecting false hope while still planting and preserving.
Biographical sketch of Arthur Shearly Cripps, Anglican missionary and poet in Rhodesia who criticised settler attitudes, lived simply and built a church for African converts, with family recollections.
Review of A.M. Ranawana’s A Liberation for the Earth, a short Catholic liberation-theology book linking climate, race and the Cross. The reviewer summarises its call for ecological conversion and political rage, and questions its stance.
Digby Hartridge, from a Rhodesian background, asks how a person of religious sensibility should respond to pandemic, climate change, capitalism and population growth, and why Sofia readers rarely tackle these moral questions.
A member describes family conflict after his mother’s and wife’s father’s deaths, including disputes over wills and estates, and warns that death and money can damage families.
Digby Hartridge’s poem describes reasoning one’s way to the conclusion that there is no God and no second chance, then taking on the slow task of shaping a purpose before facing death.
