Sofia 142
December 2021
Making Sense
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Editorial
Covers
- Front cover image : strangenotions.com
- Back cover image : The Nativity at Night by Geertgen tot Sint Jans, c.1490. nationalgallery.org.uk/stories/the-nativity
Articles
- Now that it has Happened by Digby Hartridge
- Forms of Transcendence by Martin Spence
- Letter to Mark from David Lambourn
- Mark Replies
- ‘We created religion to explain stuff we didn’t understand’. by David Rhodes
- Horror and Hope at Christmas by Frank Walker
Poetry
- Freedom to Love by Grenville Gilbert
- Naturally by Dinah Livingstone
Reviews
- Keith Sutherland reviews William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
- Stephen Mitchell reviews Church Going Gone: A biography of religion, doubt, and faith by Brian Mountford
- David Lambourn reviews Horror and Hope: The Conflicted Legacy of Christianity by Dominic Kirkham
- Kathryn Southworth reviews the clarity of distant things by Jane Duran
Regulars and Occasionals
- Revisiting: Kathryn Southworth revisits The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Letters to the Editor
- As I Please: John Pearson considers bucket lists.