Editorial

• Descent

Covers

• Front cover image :   The Descent from the Cross, Rembrandt Workshop (probably Constantijn van Renesse). 17th century.
  Open access image: nga.gov/collection/
• Back cover image : Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, Vincent van Gogh (1890).
  commons.wikimedia.org

Articles

• The Cross by Chris Griffiths
• Structural Sin by Edward Nickell
• Dissent, Descent, or just Decent? by Andy Kemp
• Pain by Edward Salter

Poetry

• The Mark by Jane Olive

Reviews

• Stephen Mitchell reviews Faith after Doubt by Brian D. McLaren
• Penny Mawdsley reviews the little book of humanism by Andrew Copson and Alice Roberts
• John Pearson reviews Cuthbert of Farne by Katharine Tiernan
• Martin Spence reviews Dancing with Mortality by Bert Clough

Regulars and Occasionals

• Letters to the Editor
• Revisiting: Patti Whaley revisits Five Letters from an Eastern Empire by Alasdair Gray.
• As I Please: John Pearson reflects on Fallen Idols