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.
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In My Exchanges Every Land Shall Walk
In My Exchanges Every Land Shall WalkMorning and afternoon I take my walker,dodder to my local park,St Martin’s Gardens,and sit down by the roses.Yellow, white and many other colours,like Joseph’s coat they are glorious.I glory...
Surveying
When I wake upfrom my window I see gullsflapping across the sky.I call them seagullsthough London is far from the sea.I wonder what they gatheras they survey the land below. Coming home by plane and...
The H2 Owner
Is your water really safe? Defend your family with a Highbrook Filter. Only £125.50 for the under-sink model. Removes nitrates, lead, aluminium and other harmful chemicals. Pure to be sure. Highbrook was so successful this...
Thirst
My body mostly water now I remember that stream Exmoor red bed boulders intervals in its falling music filling my Camden ears locked limbs to flow with it and so to heal my heart whose...
Economic Report (Nicaragua 1981)
I am surprised to find myself reading with great interest things like cotton harvest twenty five percent up on last year coffee exports US$124.2 million 17.5% up on last year a 13.6% increase in sugar...
To Nicaragua (2023)
So often I've decided to forget you as if you were a cruel lover who slams the door in your face or one of those who, the more you love, the quicker they forget. But...
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Sofia 73 – Editorial Editorial The theme of SoF’s Annual Conference this year was ‘Beyond Good and Evil: The Challenge of Reconciliation’. At the Conference AGM the motion to change the magazine’s name to sofia...
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Sofia 74 – Editorial Editorial This pre-Christmas issue of the magazine is called Down with God because the Christmas message is: He came down to Earth from Heavenwho is God and Lord of all.And his...
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Sofia 84 – Editorial Editorial – Experience will decide? This issue is about religious experience and whether the undoubted fact that human beings have been having experiences which can be described as religious for thousands...
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Sofia 68 – Editorial Editorial First, I’d like to thank Paul Overend for all his help and advice when he handed over the editorship of the magazine. I have been thinking about his last editorial...
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Sofia 69 – Editorial Editorial Is God actually an imaginative and poetic construction? William Blake says yes. The title of this issue is The Poetic Genius, the human power of poetry which, according to William...
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Sofia 70 – Editorial Editorial We humans belong to a single Earth ecosystem and are fellow creatures with all Earth’s other life forms. We have a special responsibility because of our consciousness and capacity for...
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Sofia 71 – Editorial Editorial The Easter story and May Day are spring festivals that celebrate life against death, the struggle for humanity. Even on dark winter mornings when we were children my father used...
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Sofia 72 – Editorial Editorial Is each human being born a person? If so, are we both born a person and a person in the making? Can a person be unmade? This issue starts with...
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Sofia 75 – Editorial Editorial The Winter solstice has passed and now the days are growing longer. This issue takes a phrase from Wordsworth as its title, ‘the growth of common day’. It opens with...
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Sofia 76 – Editorial Editorial We have one life and it is this one. There is no life after death. Earth has one life and we share it in kinship with all living things. Life...
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Sofia 77 – Editorial Editorial The USA is the most religious country in the Western world. Why is this? And what forms does this religiosity take? For this issue we invited two distinguished US academics...
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Sofia 84 – Editorial Editorial – Experience will decide? This issue is about religious experience and whether the undoubted fact that human beings have been having experiences which can be described as religious for thousands...
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Sofia 85 – Trevor Greenfield Is God Back on the Agenda? In recent years, as a secular mindset and scientific worldview have dominated the Western cultural perspective, many people have asked the question ‘where has...
