Author: Grenville Gilbert

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Sofia, Poetry

Blessed are the poor

You can measure a
person's spiritual health,
by how much they share
their personal wealth.
What goes for persons,
goes for countries too;
whether wealth gets divided
or just belongs to a few.
Sofia

There is no such Person as an Individual

Margaret Thatcher famously said that there was no such thing as society, by which, to be fair, she meant society in abstraction, i.e. as an idea. I agree with her with regard to society as...

Sofia

There is no such Person as an Individual

Margaret Thatcher famously said that there was no such thing as society, by which, to be fair, she meant society in abstraction, i.e. as an idea. I agree with her with regard to society as...

Sofia, Reviews

Review: The Primacy of Love by Ilia Delio

Darton, Longman & Todd (London 2021). Pbk. 83 pages. £8.99. Once in a blue moon, a theological gem is discovered! Such is Ilia Delio’s The Primacy of Love. The book is one in a series...

Sofia, Poetry

Freedom to Love

Nothing can take away the freedom to love; not even a torturous death on a cross. For love is the source of life itself and God is that Love; love is our hope. Christ died...

Sofia

Mary’s Touch

Mary breathed her last breath, whisperingly, at midafternoon. The big hand was on the nine and the little hand was between the three and the four. Her lungs had operated efficiently for most of her...

Sofia

The Fountain: Form and Flux

The Fountain: Form and Flux Grenville Gilbert responds to The Fountain by Don Cupitt Clothed in Story I’m not sure whether it was the words that drew me into church. I think it was more...

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SOF Sift: This Life on Earth

A column in which Network members think out loud about SOF and their own quest. From Grenville Gilbert (Ottery St Mary) This life on Earth is all that I know. (I had been led to...