Sofia 110

Christmas 2013

Secular Religion

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Editorial

Covers

  • Front cover image Earthrise. View from the Moon. Photo taken by astronaut William Anders during the 1968 Apollo 8 mission
  • Back cover image Rowan Tree.Painting by Anne Mieke Lumsden

Articles

Poetry

  • Through the Water by Kathryn Southworth
  • The Great Hunger by Kieran Setright
  • Snowdrops by Peter Phillips

Reviews

  • Biography. Anne Ashworth reviews Hildegard of Bingen by Fiona Maddocks
  • History. Dominic Kirkham reviews Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
  • Economics. John Pearson reviews How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life by Robert and Edward Skidelsky
  • Biography. Kathleen McPhilemy reviews Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury

Regulars and Occasionals

  • Don Cupitt bibliography
  • Letters
  • SOF Sift by David Lambourn
  • Campaign. Sister Teresa Forcades and the Spanish indignados campaign for radical social change
  • As I Please. Cicely Herbert talks about libraries
  • Mayday Notes