Reconfiguring. A Collection of Post-Christian Thoughts and Theologies by Maria Francesca French. Quoir (USA, 2023). 229 pages. £15.65. This book of writings follows on from the author's previous best-selling study of radical theology, Safer than the Known Way. The...
(Un)certain by Olivia Jackson. SCM Press (Norwich 2023). 256 pages. £19.99. 'Uncertain' is a collection of explanations from ex-believers for their loss of faith. Each individual deconstruction of faith is taken from a survey designed to reveal the various triggers...
How to begin what may be a one-off, or may be the first of a series of such articles? Where am I coming from, and what's this all about? Whilst my previous writings in Sofia establish some activist/Green Party credentials(*) I do not want this piece or its possible...
In the same way as 9/11 has become a 21st century memorable date for the West – and to many areas beyond it, and 7/7 has become another, especially for Londoners, 7/10/23 in our British calendar will be a date that not only the Israeli nation but the Jewish diaspora...
Download full issue PDF Contents Editorial Utopia, Dinah Livingstone Articles Utopian Visions, David Boulton Nicaragua's Failed Utopia, Francis McDonagh Christmas, Tony Windross Who is Human? A Short History of Race, Dominic Kirkham Arthur Shearly Cripps, Digby...
One fine day back in 1999 the future editor of Sofia and the editor of its predecessor, Sea of Faith Magazine, were among several hundred utopians marching to St George's Hill, 'an affluent satellite of London, a wealthy community of stockbrokers studded with gated...