The Sea of Faith Network explores and promotes religion and worldviews as valuable human creations.
But these are not the only expressions of human creativity:
so too are arts, crafts, music, storytelling, poetry, and language itself.
Sea of Faith Network members are involved in a wide range of imaginative and artistic activities, from music or painting or writing, to craftwork or gardening or performance.
The 2026 Sea of Faith Conference will explore the many forms of human creativity and their connections – if any – with our core interest in religion and worldviews.
Tickets are £75 for both days, including supper on Thursday and buffet lunch on Friday, or £50 for Thursday only and £60 for Friday only. Discounts are available for students and low income.
For any queries, please contact us at: conference2026@sofn.uk
Speakers and contributors
Dr Lucie Bea Dutton
Lucie Bea Dutton, textile artist and independent scholar, was awarded her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2018 for her thesis about the early career of British filmmaker Maurice Elvey. She has published on Elvey’s silent films Nelson (1918) and Hindle Wakes (1927), and on the 1950 film adaptation of Georgette Heyer’s The Reluctant Widow. She incorporates her research methodology into her stitching and has been working on a project inspired by Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy since 2014, supported by correspondence with the author. Stitching Cromwell was the subject of a well-received paper at the 2022 Huntington Library Overflow of Meaning conference, and has been featured at various public history events including exhibiting and lecturing at The Hive as a guest of the University of Worcester in 2026, and compering the 2024 and 2026 Wolf Hall Weekends. Her textile work can be found at https://thethreadofhertale.substack.com and www.stitchingcromwell.com
Dr Andrew Edgar
Andrew Edgar taught philosophy at Cardiff University until his retirement in 2018. During his academic career he published widely on contemporary German philosophy (including the work of Juegen Habermas and T.W. Adorno), the philosophy of medicine, political philosophy, and the philosophy of sport. He also published research on, and taught, the philosophy of art, with a particular interest in the theorising behind modernist art movements. Since retirement, he has moved to East Sussex (returning to old stomping grounds, having completed his doctorate at Sussex University in the 1980s). He is continuing to research British modernist art, and particularly the interwar period. He is a church warden for St Mary the Virgin, Ringmer.
Dinah Livingstone
Dinah Livingstone has given many readings of her poems and poetry translations in London, throughout Britain and abroad, including Germany and Nicaragua. She has published 10 collections of her own poetry, including ‘Poems of Hampstead Heath and Regent’s Park’ and her most recent collection ‘Embodiment’. She has also published her translations of poetry, usually in bilingual text, including ‘The Music of the Spheres’ by Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal and ‘Prayer in the National Stadium’ by Chilean poet Maria Eugenia Bravo Calderara. She has received 3 Arts Council Writer’s Awards for her poetry. She loves London and has lived in the same house in Camden Town since 1966. She has 3 children and 2 grandsons.
