St Martins Gardens, London 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 too and many...
This book brings together 30 contributors, representing 14 religions, each writing about the pandemic and their faith.
This is a captivating book, and if I had the means, I would a send a copy to every member of the network. Richard Holloway will need no introduction to many readers
Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch offers a calm and thorough history of sex and Christianity in this compendium, which manages to span millennia of history but still zoom in on interesting details along the way.
For my last contribution before handing this space over to a new contributor under Sofia’s new editor, I’ve chosen to home in on the subject of confessing. Not having been brought up to attend regular confession with a priest screened behind the dividing wall of a...
I always enjoy John Pearson’s reflections, but I was disconcerted by the final question in Going Green, his recent piece in Sofia: ‘Are we all doing all we can for a sustainable future?’ And not because I would have to answer ‘No,’ but because I never will be able to....
What to offer you in this, my last article in what has, after all, become something of a series? ‘Re-cycle, re-cycle’ has come through firmly, I hope, as something of a repeated mantra and thus I could end by simply re-stating things I have looked at to date – might...
After the service two weeks ago, one of our youngest members asked me a question. It had a simple two-word answer, that I gave him. The question was this: The Bible says that Jesus sits at God’s right hand. Who sits on his left? And the short answer was: Nobody knows....
Sixty-two years ago, as a young minister I gave a talk to the members of the Youth Club at a Congregational Church in Halifax. Amongst other things I inadvertently gave great offence and aroused considerable hostility. I made it plain that the nativity stories of the...
Sir Richard Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet The story of Richard Acland opens a window onto a surprising road to political radicalism. It is an unlikely road, following as it does the path of the 15th baronet, owner of estates in Devon and Somerset, but an advocate of...