Our world is ‘dangerously combustible, due to financial crises, pandemics, increasing injustices and inequalities, democratic chaos, geopolitical upheaval, wars and rumours of more wars to come.’ So begins this book by two distinguished New Testament...
I feel I owe an immense debt of gratitude to Sofia. That may sound a rather oddly phrased sentence: after all, we are talking about a magazine, aren’t we? Well, for me at least, it...
I feel I owe an immense debt of gratitude to Sofia. That may sound a rather oddly phrased sentence: after all, we are talking about a magazine, aren’t we? Well, for me at least, it...
I always enjoy John Pearson’s reflections, but I was disconcerted by the final question in Going Green, his recent piece in Sofia: ‘Are we all doing all we can for a sustainable future?’ And not...
Dominic Kirkham reviews The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont Picador (London 2021) Pbk. 320 pages The Baltic states are once more a focus of global concern, a flashpoint of military...
How the encounter with the Norse gods changed Christianity and created Christendom Francis J. Thompson was one the minor poets of the Victorian era and a devout Roman Catholic who became addicted to opium and...
Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership by Ally Kateusz. Palgrave MacMillan (London, 2019). 312 pages. £19.99. I bought this book out of curiosity having seen a very favourable review that stated, ‘This is one...
The word ‘race’ first appears in the English language in the sixteenth century, probably from an Italian root. It is often a bit of a mystery as to exactly how new words appear in a...
Reconfiguring. A Collection of Post-Christian Thoughts and Theologies by Maria Francesca French. Quoir (USA, 2023). 229 pages. £15.65. This book of writings follows on from the author’s previous best-selling study of radical theology, Safer than...
A review of Jesus’ Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount by Richard Rohr. SPCK (London 2023). 208 pages. £16.99. Do we need another book on the Sermon on the Mount? Richard Rohr, a widely...
