Library
The Sea of Faith Network has built up a large library of articles and recordings of speakers from our conferences. The full digitisation of these articles into a searchable format is ongoing, but a significant number are already searchable and viewable on this website.
You can browse our content below, including by written article, video or audio / podcast, as well as by author and topic.
You can search the digitised portion of our library using the search box below.
Free Speech
Joan Green leads a discussion on Free Speech – its limitations and balances, how the concept has evolved and questions about its role today.
The Sea of Faith Network and Education
Dave Francis looks back on the achievements of the network in its educational projects and their possible impact and considers the challenging question of ‘where next’?
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...
Religion in my life: Tom Bulman
Tom Bulman grew up in London and, after travelling widely, studied for a BSc at London School of Economics. He has since worked in education in various capacities, in London and later in Milton Keynes,...
Reviewing the purpose of the Sea of Faith Network
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...
Worldviews Navigator
Five and a half hours at Heston West service station
is not, I suspect, everyone’s idea of fun;
Dover Beach
The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.Come...
Thoughts whilst hitch-hiking
Five and a half hours at Heston West service station
is not, I suspect, everyone’s idea of fun;
A Sea-Side Walk
We walked beside the sea, After a day which perished silently Of its own glory—-like the Princess weird Who, combating the Genius, scorched and seared, Uttered with burning breath, “Ho! victory!” And sank adown, an...
Some Poetic thoughts on Resisting Tides
Some poets use tides as an image for that which is irresistible. Alfred Lord Tennyson used the tides as an image for the irresistibility of death in Crossing the Bar (1889). He hoped for calmness...
We refuse to be enemies. How to be steadfast in the face of threat.
The Tent of Nations, a Palestinian family farm in the West Bank, exemplifies resilience amidst Israeli occupation. The Nassar family, dedicated to peaceful resistance, faces severe challenges yet maintains hope through international support, showcasing the...
Has theological non-realism anything to offer our fractious world of identity politics?
Is theological non-realism simply a ‘brain-on-a-stick’, abstract philosophical position, or does it have real-life consequences? In her input, Alison outlined and explored a key shift in theology that has taken place over the past 40 years or so – that is, the move towards embodied theologies which take human experience...
Resisting the Hegemonic Narrative
David Chapman reviews The Tinderbox (Mosely, 2022) https://thetinderboxfilm.com/
A Resistance to the Appropriation of Scripture
James Priestman reviews the first Festival of Biblical Literature In 2017, Evangelical Christians in the United States of America proposed that Isaiah’s description of the emperor Cyrus, who allowed the people of Judah to rebuild...
Mark: a Gospel of Resistance
David explores the context of Mark’s gospel, suggesting it addresses the challenges of life during the Roman occupation following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. Mark’s narrative aims to heal societal fractures through acts of...
Resisting!
Sculpture ‘A Mighty Blow for Freedom. Fuck the Media.’ by Michael Sandle (b.1936)
Listen! A Discussion of the Sea of Faith
The conference at Gladstone’s Library in late September – entitled Listen! A Discussion of the Sea of Faith – was the last of three events marking the fortieth anniversary of the Sea of Faith television...
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.
Don Cupitt
I feel I owe an immense debt of gratitude to Sofia. That may sound a rather oddly phrased sentence: after all, we are talking about a magazine, aren’t we? Well, for me at least, it...
A Paean to the Sofia of Dinah
I feel I owe an immense debt of gratitude to Sofia. That may sound a rather oddly phrased sentence: after all, we are talking about a magazine, aren’t we? Well, for me at least, it...
Meet the New Editors
General Editor: David Chapman My undergraduate degree was in physics, and I’ve sometimes said that if you scratch me, you’ll still find a physicist in there somewhere. My first job was as an electronics design...
Theological diversity: health or heresy
A report to the 2003 Sea of Faith (UK) Annual General Meeting The Sea of Faith (UK) Steering Committee is pleased to present this report on the allowability of doctrinal diversity in the Christian tradition....