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 dabble in philosophy to work out what the science means for our own world view.
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 […]
Review: Queer Holiness
This review appeared in Sofia magazine issue 147, ‘Life for Each’. Queer Holiness, by Charlie Bell. Darton Longman and Todd (London, […]
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) […]
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.
Why I’m voting Labour
It’s hard to know where to start, to put into writing why I will be voting Labour. I could write […]