Editorial

• Making Sense

Covers

• Front cover image : strangenotions.com
• Back cover image : The Nativity at Night by Geertgen tot Sint Jans, c.1490. nationalgallery.org.uk/stories/the-nativity

Articles

• Now that it has Happened by Digby Hartridge
• Forms of Transcendence by Martin Spence
• Letter to Mark from David Lambourn
• Mark Replies
• ‘We created religion to explain stuff we didn’t understand’. by David Rhodes
• Horror and Hope at Christmas by Frank Walker

Poetry

• Freedom to Love by Grenville Gilbert
• Naturally by Dinah Livingstone

Reviews

• Keith Sutherland reviews William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
• Stephen Mitchell reviews Church Going Gone: A biography of religion, doubt, and faith by Brian Mountford
• David Lambourn reviews Horror and Hope: The Conflicted Legacy of Christianity by Dominic Kirkham
• Kathryn Southworth reviews the clarity of distant things by Jane Duran

Regulars and Occasionals

• Revisiting: Kathryn Southworth revisits The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Letters to the Editor
• As I Please: John Pearson considers bucket lists.