Editorial

• Lent and Easter

Covers

• Front cover image :  Photo of daffodils by the Editor.
• Back cover image :   A Worker gives a Comrade a Helping Hand to Rise. Statue outside TUC Headquarters in Great Russell Street, London. Photo: historicengland.org.uk

Articles

• Lent and Easter by David Paterson
• Living with Gods by Ben Whitney
• Fasting by Edward Walker
• What do we Keep and Why? by Dave Francis
• Giving up Giving up by John Pearson

Poetry

• Absurdity, Anguish, Freedom prose poem by John Cragg
• Span by Brian Docherty
• Meadow Cranesbill by Brian Docherty
• A Quare Few Things by Moyra Donaldson

Reviews

• Michael Morton reviews Hope without Optimism by Terry Eagleton
• Richard Wood-Penn reviews Re-Enchanting the Activist: Spirituality and Social Change by Keith Hebden
• Carol Palfrey reviews A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway
• Kathryn Southworth reviews A Bright Acoustic by Philip Gross

Regulars and Occasionals

• Letters
• Revisiting: Graham Galer revisits a poem by A.E. Housman
• As I Please: John Pearson reflects on same sex weddings