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
He was killed in acƟon on 4th November 1918, a week before the armisƟce. Mayday Note April is the Cruellest Month ‘We should be proud of the fact that we are a Christian country,’ s...
Sofia
Gypsy Timeline
Gypsies are among the ‘strangers’ who have suffered much persecution in Britain, Europe and the rest of the world. Here are a few salient dates in their history. 1000 CE Although it was originally thought...
Sofia
Campaign: Sister Teresa Forcades
Sister Teresa Forcades and the Spanish indignados campaign for radical social change. Sister Teresa Forcades, a Catalan Benedictine nun belonging to the Convent of St Benet on Montserrat Mountain, has joined with economist Arcadi Oliveres...
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)
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish-hook, or press down its tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? Will it make many...
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…
My Uncle John taught Chemistry at Oundle School during the 1950s. He used to visit us each Christmas. For Uncle John, Daniel Fahrenheit’s scale, measuring temperature, was Holy Writ. I remember his bonus Christmas present...
Sofia
Radio Rockall: Smoking Guns or Goober Peas?
Imagine having just emerged victorious from a revolutionary war against an arrogant, oppressive, imperial state. Imagine living in a situation fearing that the oppressor might reappear, re-armed, a situation where it was necessary to add...