Sofia, Reviews
Review: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever by Lamorna Ash
Edward Nickell reviews Lamorna Ash’s Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, a year-long journey through young Christian conversion that ends, unexpectedly, in faith.
Author: Edward Nickell
Saint, Goddess and Resistor: Will the Real Brigid Please Stand Up?
At the start of February, Ireland celebrated Saint Brigid’s day with a bank holiday. Instituted only last year, this is Ireland’s first bank holiday for a female and brings Brigid out of the shadow of...
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The Sea of Faith Steering Group
At the 2024 Sea of Faith AGM a motion changed the ‘tag line’ statement of purpose of the network. For the health of the network, it would be good for more members to engage with...
In Conversation, Events
Saint, goddess, abortionist: would the real Brigid please stand up?
Edward Nickell introduces Brigid, saint, godess and abortionist, in a discussion about how myths are being reimagined.
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The Covid Pandemic and the World’s Religions edited by George D. Chryssides and Dan Cohn-Sherbok
This book brings together 30 contributors, representing 14 religions, each writing about the pandemic and their faith.
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Lower than the Angels by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch offers a calm and thorough history of sex and Christianity in this compendium, which manages to span millennia of history but still zoom in on interesting details along the way.
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Review: On Voice. Speech, Song, Silence: Human and Divine
Edward Nickell reviews On Voice. Speech, Song, Silence: Human and Divine by Victoria Johnson Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd (Croydon 2024) Pbk. 189 pages. On Voice explores and promotes Christian worship, theology and culture by...
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Review: Vile Bodies. The Body in Christian Teaching, Faith and Practice.
By Adrian Thatcher. SCM Press (London 2023) Pbk. 278 pages. Before reading Vile Bodies, I had no idea how alien the ancient understanding of bodies and sex were to ours. These ancient understandings seem risible...
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Resistance by name
What’s in a name? Actually, quite a lot. A name gives us identity, whether for the individual or the group. Our personal names are usually given to us by our parents, but a group may...
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Review: Passions of the Soul by Rowan Williams
Passions of the Soul by Rowan WilliamsBloomsbury (London 2024) Pbk. 121 pages. Passions of the Soul is a collection of addresses and essays from Rowan Williams describing early Eastern Christian mystic thinking about the human...