Made to make your mouth water...
For those who can't make Conference, here's an indication of what you are missing... Workshops on poetry and metaphor; spiritual aerobics; "selling SoF"; bereavement and spiritual journeys; inner journeys (a "guided fantasy"; "the art of being literally outrageous"; the Upanishads; Tai Ji dance. North-West SoF presents "The Real Thing" in which Pope Pius IV meets Postmodern Pat. Not forgetting "God and the Gothick Novel" and "How to Traumatise an Anglican Congregation"...
News please
Since so much of SoF's life goes on in its local groups it is surprising that we don't hear more about it in the magazine. So why not appoint someone to write up your next meeting. Let the rest of us know what you are doing, saying, asking, thinking.
Thanks, but no sermons
Your articles and letters continue to be more than welcome - we have had to hold over several - but one category of contribution which doesn't work too well is the reworked sermon. Verse is also a problem. We don't want to exclude it altogether - particularly as we assert that "theology is poetry" - but good poetry with more than a very private appeal is rare. May the muses forgive me.
Courtesy of Mel Calman, from his book "My God" (Aurum Press, £3.99).