Denise Cush reviews Religion and Generation Z: Why 70% of Young People Say They Have No Religion. Christian Alternative Books, (Alresford: 2022), Pbk. 151 pages. £11.99. It is now widely acknowledged that there has been a recent substantial increase in the number of...
Nicholas Peter Harvey reviews The Jesus Myth: A Psychologist’s Viewpoint by Chris Scott. Christian Alternative (Alresford: 2022). Pbk. 80 pages. £7.99. This very short and accessible book carries high-toned encomiums from such luminaries as Richard Holloway and Martin...
David Lambourn reviews Unknowing God: Toward a Post-Abusive Theology by Nicholas Peter Harvey & Linda WoodheadCascade Books, (Eugene, OR, 2022). Pbk. 150 pages. £18 ‘I maintain that thought itself absolutely depends on a three-way relationship between at least two...
Please send your letters to: Sofia Editor: Dinah Livingstone, 10 St Martin’s Close, London NW1 0HR editor@sofn.org.uk Jesus as Teacher Thank you for this edition of Sofia (144 June 2022), which I am reading with pleasure. While I hesitate to challenge anything I read...
Kathryn Southworth reviews Saying it with Flowers by Peter Phillips. Ward Wood Publishing (London 2022) Pbk 74 pages £í9.99 Peter Phillips has published six previous volumes of poetry, this title having its genesis in a short illustrated pamphlet produced by Hearing...
Download full issue PDF Contents Covers Front cover image: Annibale Carracci: Jesus and the Canaanite Woman. (1594). en.wikipedia.org Back cover image: Thomas Cole: Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. (1828). en.wikipedia.org Articles Being Human:...
3. The Beatitudes The Beatitudes occur in two versions: in the ‘Sermon on the Plain’ in Luke (6:17-24f.) and the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ in Matthew (5:1-12). Luke has:Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the reign of God.Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you...
The question facing us today, is how do we Christians, and people from all the world’s major religions and humanists respond in a world that is now contracting that circle of us so that our societies consciously begin to exclude and divide. You only have to think of...
If only I could say let’s meet at St Pancras,not below the android-looking couple clinchingunder the clock, but next to Betjeman’s statue,crumpled, loveable, human. You haven’t seen the station, done-upin all its magnificence; that long, glitzychampagne and oyster bar...
Dogs were howling. I don’t know what breedbut something like wolves; so maybe Alsatians.They wouldn’t stop, their noise was contagious.Soon we were all weeping. When they came, we quietened, but not the dogs. Soldiers pickedthrough our debris-scorched field. Most...