Ken Smith writes: Earlier this year SOF Trustees David Paterson, Allan Hayes and I had the privilege of being invited to take part in Think Week, a programme of Talks and Discussions organised in Oxford...
George Herbert at Bemerton My father’s name was Jock. Already the process of understanding has been slowed by the association that nick-name has with all things Scottish. It picks up speed again when I tell...
Colonel William H.Sleeman (1809 – 1856 A.D.) served as the government tax collector at Jabalpur (in present day Madhya Pradesh). Among his diaries is a graphic account of a Sati ritual suicide. ‘I received word...
Carpe Diem Ken Smith ran a conference workshop with this title and his article offers a ‘Why’ to live for, can cope with any ‘How’! Fifty years ago, in those heady, hearty days of the...
The floor has never been so far away The end so near, the fear so grand The hand of fate dealing with its customary cruelness Prevents me reaching for the cornflakes on the kitchen shelf...
But for lovers of India and especially of Hinduism, the image on this page is typically iconic. If I sleep on my left side, it is my first visual experience each morning. Shiva Nataraj sitting...
Dominic Kirkham reviews An Introduction to Radical Theology by Trevor Greenfield O Books (Winchester). 2006. £12.99. 208 pages. Pbk. ISBN: 1905047606 reviews Like most things in life, I find writing book reviews difficult, but not...
This is the new Letters Editor breaking a promise of a lifetime not to write a letter to the editor. Except I’m not really writing to the editor (that would be selfindulgence); I’m writing to...
Ronald Fraser Yule 23 Pennan, Aberdeenshire. rfyule@rfyule.demon.co.uk William Imray’s correct email address is: biro33@aol.com letters sof 72 July 2005 16 William Imray writes that he is pleased with the response to his Attempt to Produce...
