Editorial

• The Necessity of Hope

Covers

• Front cover image :  Painting of May tree in flower by Anne Mieke Lumsden.
• Back cover images :  Thai Wild Boar football team discovered alive in cave: bbc.co.uk;
  ex-fireman Rick Stanton, one of the first divers to reach the boys: ITV News;
  four Thai Navy Seals, the last divers to exit caves after the rescue: Thai Navy Seal/Facebook.

Articles

• Hope, Faith and Redemption 1 by Tony Carroll
• Hope, Faith and Redemption 2 by Richard Norman
• Hope for Humanity: A Theology of Liberation and the Beautiful City by Dinah Livingstone
• No Same River Twice by Aileen La Tourette

Poetry

• Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
• Everything in Our World Did Not Seem to Fit by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Passchendaele by John Pearson

Reviews

• Francis McDonagh reviews The Political Samaritan: How Power Hijacked a Parable by Nick Spencer
• Pauline Pearson reviews Paul: A Biography by Tom Wright
• Nora Parr reviews A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry edited by Naomi Foyle
• Kathleen McPhilemy reviews The Inner Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Regulars and Occasionals

• Letters:A Final Note from Don Cupitt and Cupitt bibliography 2018
• Revisiting: Carol Palfrey revisits Middlemarch by George Eliot
• As I Please: Exercising Ghosts. John Pearson goes to Woodhall Spa.