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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...
Author: Stephen Mitchell
Sofia, Reviews
On Reflection – looking for life’s meaning by Richard Holloway
This is a captivating book, and if I had the means, I would a send a copy to every member of the network. Richard Holloway will need no introduction to many readers
Sofia, Letters
Image of God ‘out there’ which still hasn’t gone
Letter published in the Church Times from Canon Stephen Mitchell. How disappointing to read that the late Hugh Dawes’s attempt, in his 1992 book Freeing the Faith, to find a new story of God which...
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Don Cupitt at 90
When I was a child I didn’t know anyone who was ninety. I couldn’t conceive of being ninety. Nonagenarians inhabited the mythical world of Methuselah. In middle age, in my first incumbency, eager to ingratiate...
In Conversation, Events
Unfinished Business
Looking back over his 40 years involvement with the network, Stephen discovers unfinished business with the church. Examining controversies of the past, he proposes a plan for a firework display to mark the anniversary, and which may...
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Religion and Music
Religion and music went hand in hand long before the appearance of plainsong. Don Cupitt was talking to me on the phone about the theme of music and religion and giving me a little lecture...
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The Body of Christ III: Real Presence and the Spirit
The first Don Cupitt book I bought was The Leap of Reason. I was completing a PGCE course at Emmanuel College, and was captivated by the Dean who handed out sermon notes before preaching. It...
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The Body of Christ II: Death and Resurrection
The older I become, the less inclined I am to watch violent films. It’s not the blood and guts: I’m fascinated by operations and dissections and I’m not queasy. I just don’t want to watch...
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The Body of Christ
On Wednesday 30th May 1431, in the Old Market in Rouen, near the Church of Saint Saviour, a teenage girl was burnt to death. Over the four months, leading up to her execution, she’d been...
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The Body of Christ
On Wednesday 30th May 1431, in the Old Market in Rouen, near the Church of Saint Saviour, a teenage girl was burnt to death. Over the four months, leading up to her execution, she’d been...