Sofia, Reviews
Review: Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle
Andy Kemp reviews Clare Carlisle’s Transcendence for Beginners, a philosophical life-writing that finds transcendence not beyond the world but in ordinary, devoted love.
Author: Andy Kemp
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The Sea of Faith Steering Group
At the 2024 Sea of Faith AGM a motion changed the ‘tag line’ statement of purpose of the network. For the health of the network, it would be good for more members to engage with...
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Don Cupitt & The Sea of Faith
The conference took place on the 1st and 2nd of July 2024, a few weeks after Don Cupitt’s 90th birthday, and was hosted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he served as Dean for many years.
In Conversation, Events
The Persistence of Pilgrimage
In our November session, we explored developing an ethical critique of ‘Pressure tactics’. This topic was introduced by Patti Whaley.
In Conversation, Events
Our 40th Anniversary Conferences
In our June session, Ian Stubbs introduced the topic ‘Assisted dying – My Death, My Decision’
In Conversation, Events
The New Straight Track
In April Andy Kemp spoke on: The New Straight Track, Religion under the Rails – HS2 in Buckinghamshire.
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Dissent, Descent, or just Decent?
Andy Kemp explores Methodism’s 300 year identity crisis. Three Enlightenments Was the Enlightenment a Christian movement? If we were to list as many of the key figures of the Enlightenment as come to mind, few...
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Revisiting: The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill
Old Normal: New Normal It is forty-one years since I first read The World Turned Upside Down. I was in the Upper Sixth, studying ‘Stuart England’ over the first winter of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government,...
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
The young Dutch historian Rutger Bregman first came to my attention because of his effective championing of ‘Universal Basic Income’, in TED Talks, TV appearances and his earlier bestseller: Utopia for Realists (Bloomsbury, 2018). I...