Contents Editorial Articles Arts & Religion Regulars Editorial: Living Faith Letters Please send letters to our Letters Editor, Stephen Mitchell letters@sofn.uk I congratulate the departing editor, David, on the Sofia series on Resistance. The last...
Paul Overend outlines Johan Galtung’s distinction between direct, structural and cultural violence. He applies Galtung’s view of ‘chosenness’ in transcendent religion as cultural violence, citing Israel and the Palestinians.
In preparation for your participation in this conversation, Paul recommends you to follow one two following links to have an idea of what is meant by ‘human flourishing’, so that we can all speak from...
Paul Overend reviews Paul-Francois Tremlett’s short introduction to Marx, Engels and later Marxists on religion, welcoming its accessibility but wanting fuller explanation of Marx’s view of religion as a human creation.
Reads Don Cupitt on the self as culturally formed yet responsible, and on solar and humanitarian ethics as the basis for political resistance, democracy and anarchism, then raises questions about his situatedness.
Paul Overend explains why the word ‘worship’ troubles him, tracing its link to feudal homage and monarchical tribute, and proposes that gatherings be times of attending to the worth of others and of love.
Contents Articles Reviews Poetry Editorial Guest Editorial Ronald Pearse For those of us who were adults half a century ago, the year 1984 had ominous advance overtones that lasted for many years. | 984 was...
Paul Overend reviews press and letters-page reactions to Cupitt’s 1984 Sea of Faith series, from calls for his resignation to Clifford Longley’s and Church Times responses.
Contents Articles Reviews Regulars and Occasionals Editorial Levinas is a revisionist within Judaism. Born in Lithuania, he inherited the Talmudic tradition of the anti-mystical Mitnagged movement that opposed the popular affective and immediate piety of...
Flotsam and Jetsam column: an apology on the editor’s comments about America and Israel, with criticism of US policy, and news of the Church of England’s internet church.
