Welcome to SOF, a network of groups and individuals who share the understanding that religions and religious faith are creations of the human imagination and explore together the implications of such an understanding for their moral, spiritual, and social values.
At the heart of the Sea of Faith network is an open, uninhibited conversation. It’s how it all began.
SOF is about exploring and promoting religious faith as a valuable human creation for this life
This year we will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of Don Cupitt’s BBCtv series and the publication of his book ‘The Sea of Faith’.
Special events are being planned to mark this milestone.
Click here to read more about Don Cupitt and the anniversary
Don Cupitt
1934 – 2025
It is with great sadness that we share the news that on Saturday 18th January, Don Cupitt, inspirational philosopher and theologian, died following a short illness.
The Conversation
Continues
SOF: In Conversation is a monthly online event, open to all Sea of Faith Network members, and to friends and sympathisers beyond the Network.
Each month a speaker gives an introductory talk as a catalyst for conversation. Once this talk is over, the discussion goes where it will!
The next talk, on 19 June, will be by Ian Stubbs. His title is ‘Assisted Dying – My Death My Decision’.
Sofia is the magazine of the Sea of Faith Network (UK) and is published quarterly. It is free to all members of the UK network. Non-members can subscribe to the magazine annually.
Click here to read all about Sofia, learn how to subscribe and to access the archive of magazines, articles & reviews.
FINDING YOUR WAY ABOUT
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This is the story of how the original television series presented by Don Cupitt nearly 40 years ago has given rise to an international network. Today’s members of the Sea of Faith Network continue to explore issues from the future of Christianity to its relationship to secular humanism and Don Cupitt himself reflects on how his own thinking has developed since the original programmes.
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Don Cupitt was an English philosopher of religion and scholar of Christian theology. Cupitt was born in Oldham and educated at Charterhouse, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Westcott House, Cambridge. He studied, successively, natural sciences, theology and the philosophy of religion.
In 1959 he was ordained deacon in the Church of England, becoming a priest in 1960. After short periods as a curate in the North of England, and as vice-principal of Westcott House, Cupitt was elected to a Fellowship and appointed dean at Emmanuel College, Cambridge late in 1965. Since then he remained at the college.
In 1968 he was appointed to a university teaching post in philosophy of religion, a position in which he continued until his retirement for health reasons in 1996. At that time he proceeded to a life fellowship at Emmanuel College, which remained his base.
In the early 1990s he stopped officiating at public worship and in 2008 he ceased to be a communicant member of the church. Although he has been a priest, he is better known as a writer, broadcaster and populariser of innovative theological ideas.
He wrote over 40 books—which have been translated into Dutch, Persian, Polish, Korean, Portuguese, Danish, German and Chinese—as well as chapters in more than 30 multi-authored volumes.