A photograph from Cliff Polubinsky’s Habitat for Humanity work in Guatemala — a father teaching his son to lay masonry — offered for quiet contemplation on the theme of love in this world.
The Guatemala Masons (2004)
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Review: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever by Lamorna Ash
Edward Nickell reviews Lamorna Ash’s Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, a year-long journey through young Christian conversion that ends, unexpectedly, in faith.
Network Matters: Religious Education
Dave Francis on the Sea of Faith Network’s RE education work — from the founding of Solarity to the Big Ideas for RE programme — against a backdrop of the rise of the religious “nones”.
161 – Love
Download full issue PDF Contents Editorial Love, Paul Overend Articles Three Early Twentieth Century Theologies of Love, Paul Overend Committed to Love, Edward Owen The Guatemala Masons (2004), Cliff Polubinsky One Humanism? Many Humanisms, Martin Spence Reviews...
Living: A Reminder to Love (in) this World
Ross McCrory reviews Living (2022), Oliver Hermanus and Kazuo Ishiguro’s retelling of Ikiru, as a study in learning — almost too late — to live and love in and for this world.
One Humanism? Many Humanisms
Martin Spence reports from an Oxford conference on “religious humanisms” — and finds himself persuaded that humanism might, after all, come in the plural.
Lived Religion: Ben Wood
Ben Wood, Quaker theologian and Hedge Druid, talks about faith seeking understanding, dual religious belonging, and a “liberal socialist” politics of grace.
Review: Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle
Andy Kemp reviews Clare Carlisle’s Transcendence for Beginners, a philosophical life-writing that finds transcendence not beyond the world but in ordinary, devoted love.
Review: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth
Andrew Edgar reviews Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine — a compelling critique of technological modernity that is, at times, too conservative in the stories it reaches for instead.
Review: Magisteria by Nicholas Spencer
Robert Boucnick reviews Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria, a comprehensive history that dismantles the myth of perpetual war between science and religion.