Ronald Pearse offers a personal account of the trials and media reports of clergy who, following Don Cupitt’s 1984 TV series The Sea of Faith, openly declared that God is imaginary. This is personal in...
SOF Sermon Ronald Pearse preached this sermon in All Saints’ Church, on 3rd August 2014, the sixƟeth anniversary of his ordinaƟon. At the age of nearly eleven I had my first grammar school science lesson....
Shortly after this book appeared, the New Zealand New Year’s Honours List 2007 announced the award of that country’s highest honour, the Order of New Zealand, to the author, Lloyd Geering. Professor Geering is not...
Note:Professor Geering delivered a sermon on theTrinity on Trinity Sunday 2004 in St Andrew’s on theTerrace.His script can be accessed on http://standrews.org.nz Ronald Pearse reviews Is Christianity going anywhere? by Lloyd Geering 2004, St Andrew’s...
Ronald Pearse reviews The Thoughtful Guide to Faith by Tony Windross O Books, Winchester, UK & New York, USA, 2004, p.b., 224 pp UK £9.99; USA $14.95 ISBN 1903816688 This is a splendid book! Its...
Sof 60 June 2003 a Ronald Pearse reviews The Calling of a Cuckoo: Not Quite an Autobiography by David E Jenkins Continuum 2002 pp.192 hb. £18.99 ISBN 0 8264 4991 3 This is a lively...
Trials and Tribulations Ronald Pearse considers some recent charges of blasphemy, heresy and the uses and abuses of doctrinal discipline within in English-speaking Non-Roman Catholic churches. In the early days of the Christian movement there...
This ad hoc title continued in use until last year, when it was suggested that the word “members” offered problems to some who were concerned with churches but not technically members. So this February the...
Numbers with noughts on the end seem to entice us to look backwards, whether it’s the year 2000, a 10th anniversary… or just the 40th number of Sea of Faith magazine. So we’ve been blowing...
