Author: SEAfarer

Seafarer’s column on the National Gallery’s Seeing Salvation exhibition and Tate’s Heaven show, finding modern images of Jesus more compelling than traditional ones. It also notes Madonna’s pregnancy as icon and a God.com joke.

Postscripts column on a visit to the Millennium Dome, praising most zones but criticising the Faith Zone, which Church leaders turned into a dull exhibition of institutional Christianity.

Postscripts column: non-realist physics in Frayn’s play Copenhagen, Tippett’s Mask of Time at the Proms, the Bishop of Oxford on Kosovo, fears of heresy trials for clergy, and the Methodist Conference on belief in God.

Seafarer reports on a liberation theology conference in Birmingham, a Gerrard Winstanley commemoration, planned SoF conferences with the Jesus Seminar and religious humanists, Claire Rayner on godparents, and Don Cupitt’s 65th birthday.

Seafarer’s column reports Network news: the London group’s ‘Is Nothing Sacred?’ conference, a new Australian Network, a planned international religious humanist gathering, and notes on new journals, Lyotard, Derrida and Don Cupitt.

Postscripts reports the 1998 conference evaluation, SoFnet and the website, the Lambeth Conference and Richard Holloway on tolerance, a physicist’s temperature for Hell, and plugs for events and publications.

Postscripts answers Jim Davies: church members are the Network’s majority, humanism has always been part of SoF, and the unofficial ‘What is SoF’ features are deliberate; it also corrects Cupitt’s ten theses.

Seafarer’s column on C.A.P. Ellis’s Rational Christian manifesto, the Wedells’ call for SoF to change its aim, Quaker Universalist pamphlets, disestablishment of the Church of England, Danilo Dolci, and the Ten Commandments.