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Archives & Index

There are two archives of our magazines.

One will be found by clicking on the green buttton above, this is a list of all the editions of Sofia since 2004, where you can see a full list of contents for each one – an example can be found by clicking on the cover picture above – and a link to a pdf of the complete edition. Only members and subscribers to Sofia will be able to access pdfs of the four most recent editions.

The second archive will be found by clicking on the blue button below. This is a list of all the magazines since 1990 with links to Pdfs of the complete editions. 

Sofia does not think wisdom is dispensed supernaturally from on high, but that it can only be sought by humans at home on Earth, and is inseparable from human kindness.

Sofia regards religion as a human creation and, in rejecting the supernatural, is for this life and humanity with its questing imagination and enabling dreams.

Sofia is for diggers and seekers in its own native radical tradition and everywhere.

 

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.

The Network has published its magazine since 1990. Issues 1-74 (1990-2004) of the magazine were first called Sea of Faith, then SOF.

  Issues 1-10 were edited by Clive Richards

  Issues 11-21 were edited by David Boulton

  Issues 22-27 were edited by Anthony Freeman

  Issues 28-51 were edited by David Boulton

  Issues 52-67 were edited by Paul Overend

  Issues 68 – 154 were edited by Dinah Lvingstone

The magazine’s name was changed to Sofia from issue 75.

Contact the Editors

The General Editor of Sofia, David Chapman, and the Poetry Editor, James Priestman, welcome submissions of articles, poems, reviews and letters. Please send material for James to poetry@sofn.uk and any other material to editor@sofn.uk

The overall theme for Sofia during 2025 is ‘resisting’. Material on any aspect of resisting: resisting tyranny, privilege, hegemony, patriarchy – whatever – is especially (but not exclusively) welcome.

David is a retired academic who taught ICT and researched the nature of information. A member of an ecumenical church in Milton Keynes, he believes that religion, like information and all knowledge, is a creation of people and communities, and is always provisional, partial, political and flawed. David has increasingly recognised his own privilege and the damaging hegemony of people like himself. He believes that religion should undermine privilege and resist hegemonies. He has a blog.

James is a Quaker who has a degree in Biblical Studies from the University of Sheffield. He runs the annual Festival of Biblical Literature in Great Malvern. He writes poems under the nom de plume James Pendle. As the Poet of Paddington Station he performs to customers between 10:30 and 12 noon most Friday mornings. You can see James on his Youtube channel and follow him on Instagram, Facebook and BlueSky.

An index of authors has been compiled which covers our complete archive of magazines from no.1 Spring 1990 to no.142 December 2021.