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.
Hope Against the Odds
Christiane van Duuren writes of her stay at the Tent of Nations, a Palestinian farm on the West Bank, and the tenacious hope of the Nassar family who own it.
Reflections on RE Part 2: ‘Hope for the Future of Religion and Worldviews Education’
Dave Francis and Denise Cush examine the opportunities offered by the 2025 Curriculum and Assessment Review, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of including RE in the National Curriculum.
Ernst Bloch: Religion, Atheism, and Hope
I first encountered Ernst Simon Bloch (1885–1977) while studying Jürgen Moltmann, Johannes Metz, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Gustavo Gutiérrez, as commentators linked these theologians’ work to Bloch’s philosophy of hope. Although the theologians were better known...
Lived Religion: Katy Jennison, Pagan Sea of Faith Member
Katy Jennison, a Pagan and Sea of Faith member, talks about her Wiccan practice, the significance of her full moon ritual, and how she understands deity in a non-literal way.
Network Matters: SoF Publications
These ‘Network Matters’ pages explore various aspects of the charitable work of the Sea of Faith (SoF) Network. In this edition, we focus on the Network’s publications. Publishing was at the heart of Don Cupitt’s...
Anniversaries of Publications by the Sea of Faith Network
Looking Back — Teresa Wallace Time and Tide was published 25 years ago, in 2001. The editor, Teresa Wallace, reflects on her contribution to SoFN publications. I am the daughter of a clergyman, and have...
Review: Restoring Humanism to Religion by David Galston
David Boulton reviews David Galston’s argument that religion must evolve by rediscovering its humanist roots and embracing what he calls ‘religiousness’.
Review: Navigating Uncertainty by Ian Scoones
Digby Hartridge reviews Ian Scoones’s argument that marginal communities in the Global South may be better placed than ‘sophisticated’ Western societies to cope with major disruptions.
Life and church – a personal journey
Iain recounted his struggle within the United Reformed Church, culminating in his ordination.
His inclusive ministry emphasises justice, resilience, hope and the church’s transformative potential.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE METANOIA
Regardless of your faith persuasion, there’s one thing we can probably all agree on: the fundamental cause of all human problems – everything from little children not playing nicely in the playground, to climate change and the threat of nuclear conflict – is people behaving selfishly, putting their self-interest before...
The Changing Relationship between Science and Religion
The initial premise for this discussion is that the binary choice between evolution and creationism is an out-dated, false dichotomy. Since the enlightenment the religious description of the cosmos has had to retreat in the face of scientific discovery. Superstition has been replaced by science and, so it is presumed,...
Creativity, Curiosity and Celebration
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...
Jesus and the Powers by Tom Wright and Michael Bird
Our world is ‘dangerously combustible, due to financial crises, pandemics, increasing injustices and inequalities, democratic chaos, geopolitical upheaval, wars and rumours of more wars to come.’ So begins this book by two distinguished New Testament...
Book reviews, notices and Conversation
Book Reviews, ‘Notices’ and Conversation The many changes happening around us call for some change in our ‘Books’ section. I hope to include more short ‘notices’ of books that members have found useful. These will...
Network Matters: Sofia
These pages will consider an aspect of the Network’s work in each edition. This edition considers the Sofia and its aim. The Charity The Sea of Faith Network is an educational charity that exists ‘to...
Saint Sophia and her Daughters, Saints Faith, Hope and Love
The widow Sophia and her daughters, Faith Hope, and Love, are said to have lived in the first or second century and to have been martyred in Rome in one of the Christian persecutions, perhaps...
Faith, Trust, and the Courage to Live Truthfully
On faith as trust, exploring what contemporary responses to trans lives reveal about how faith is practised today, by John Billings
Lived Religion: Simon Cross
Q: Simon, you’ve had quite a personal and professional journey over the past years, from journalism, writing on New Monasticism, doctoral research at Hull, and into urban ministry. You continue writing and are Chair of...
On Lived Religion
The study of religion in everyday life, as developed within the fields of sociology and practical theology, challenges us to reevaluate and redefine our understanding of religion. In sociology, the French la religion vécue of...
Learning from Interfaith Dialogue
A large part of my spiritual pilgrimage has been the journey into the faith of others. It has been a sacred encounter and a journey which has truly enriched my soul. It began when, as...
The International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF)
Bringing together liberal religious individuals and communities by Łukasz Liniewicz. The Council of Unitarian and Other Liberal Thinkers and Workers, which met for the first time 125 years ago in London, has survived to this...