Sofia
Kingdom Come
In his autobiography, the great Anglican controversialist Harry Williams said that ‘one of the important functions of religion is to give people something to do with their lunacy’. It was a point well made, but...
In his autobiography, the great Anglican controversialist Harry Williams said that ‘one of the important functions of religion is to give people something to do with their lunacy’. It was a point well made, but...
Talk given by Tony Windross to the SOF Conference in London, July 2024. Whilst (like me) there are plenty of people who can’t get their heads around religious claims – unlike me, pretty well all...
I’ve long treasured the story of a young mother who’d moved to a new area, and took her little girl to the local church for the first time. They were met at the door by...
It all began one Christmas – well actually, a few months earlier. A few months earlier I’d found a battered copy of HJ (‘Bert’) Richards’ The First Christmas in my local second-hand bookshop, and as...
Human beings have celebrated Harvest for about as long as there have been harvests – and maybe even before, in the case of nomadic peoples. Ancient Greeks gave thanks to Demeter, the goddess of grain,...
The Shaping of a Soul by Richard Harries. Christian Alternative (Winchester 2023). Pbk. 256 pages. £13.99. Richard Harries has had a long and glittering career in the Church of England, rising to become Bishop of...
Tony Windross describes why it was only when he came to see religion as ‘self-evidently a product of the human imagination’, that he decided to become ordained.
I have to admit to some trepidation as I approached this book. Not only is Dinah the editor of Sofia, but she’s someone I’ve known and respected for a long time. How could I, in...
By Alex Wright. Darton, Longman and Todd (London 2016), 192 pages. £12.99. This is an uncomfortable (and sometimes painful) book to read. Far from being a dispassionate analysis of the nature of Doubt – it’s...