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Review: Unknowing God: Towards a Post-Abusive Theology
I recently completed the Church of England’s safeguarding training – mandatory for me as a Parochial Church Council member. The training was rigorous but something felt missing. This book identifies that gap: it is the failure to understand how theology can harm. The Church has failed to explore how its theology is a contributor to…
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Review: Experimenting with religion: the new science of belief
According to Jong, it isn’t just the psychologists who have work to do, but all of us. While physicists can tell us about observations and theories about the universe, and psychologists can tell us what they observe about the mind – we can’t ‘outsource’ the work of interpreting these deliverances of science. We all must…
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Mystic Meg and broken clocks
Mystic Meg, Britain’s most famous astrologer, died aged 80 this March. Astrology – What a load of crap I always say. In the student canteen we had a breakfast ritual. Pass The Sun, tearing out page 3 of course, and reading each other’s horoscopes. Just for a laugh. “You will meet new love at a…
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Review: Queer Holiness
This review appeared in Sofia magazine issue 147, ‘Life for Each’. Queer Holiness, by Charlie Bell. Darton Longman and Todd (London, 2022) Hbk 224 pages £16.99 Note: Reflecting the book, ‘queer’ is used as a blanket term for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Queer Holiness is a timely update on the endless Anglican debate on sexuality from…
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In memory of David Graeber, 1961 – 2020
The following article was first published in ‘Sofia’ magazine. Sofia is the magazine of the Sea of Faith Network (UK) and is published quarterly. You can find out more about the magazine, and see some articles and excerpts from it, on the Sea of Faith Network website. The article is written in memory of David…
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Structural sin
Stuck with an idea that we are only responsible for our own direct actions, we end up unable to deal with any problems that lie outside our most obvious responsibilities as a solitary individual.