Events, Conferences
With or Without God
A joint PCN Britain and Sea of Faith weekend event held in Oxford, exploring what we mean by God and whether the word is past its use-by date, and what a post-theistic church would be...
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Events, Conferences
Making Connections
The Annual UK Conference, held at the University of Leicester. Transcripts were published in Sofia 113. Speakers Derek McAuley (Chief Officer, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches). Keith Porteous Wood (executive director, National...
Sofia
Mayday Note: April is the Cruellest Month
A Mayday Note contrasts David Cameron’s claims about Christian Britain and evangelism with his welfare cuts. Police turned away Anglican bishops and clergy who tried to deliver a letter warning of a national food-poverty crisis.
Sofia
Gypsy Timeline
A timeline of Gypsy history from their Indian origins and arrival in Europe through persecution in Britain, the Nazi genocide and caravan-site law to the 2014 treatment of Roma migrants.
Sofia
Campaign: Sister Teresa Forcades
Catalan Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades and economist Arcadi Oliveres issue a manifesto for radical social change by non-violent means, and she criticises the Catholic Church as patriarchal and misogynistic.
Events, Conferences
Secular Religion?
A London day conference exploring secular religion. Video recordings were made available. Speakers Stephen Batchelor – ‘A Secular Buddhist’. Don Cupitt – ‘A Secular Christian’. Richard Holloway – ‘Gaugin’s Questions’. Dinah Livingstone – a personal...
Sofia, Poetry
Leviathan from the Book of Job (41: 1-5)
Job 41:1-5, in which God asks Job whether Leviathan can be caught with a fish-hook, tamed on a leash or made a servant for ever.
Events, Conferences
For the Common Good
The UK National Conference, held at the University of Leicester. Transcripts were published in Sofia 109. Speakers Professor Tim Jackson (ecological economist, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey). Alom Shaha (author of The Young...
Sofia
Radio Rockall: Fahrenheit, Celsius or…
A former priest uses Fahrenheit and Celsius to illustrate changing ideas of God, from Honest to God to Anthony Freeman’s redefining of God as the sum of his values.
Sofia
Radio Rockall: Smoking Guns or Goober Peas?
Using the Second Amendment and the NRA’s history, the author argues that American gun laws are misread and that gun massacres follow easy access to weapons.