Editorial

• In the Making

Covers

• Front Cover Image: Brigid, Celtic goddess of poetry, fire, smithing and fertility, also St Brigid/Bride, traditionally Mary’s midwife at the birth of Jesus, the Word.
• Back cover image: Mount Etna, the Roman god Vulcan’s forge, where, among other things, he made Achilles’ shield.

Articles

• Carpe Diem by Ken Smith
• Matter All the Way Up and Spirit All the Way Down by David Paterson
• From Creation to Recreation by George Pattison
• The Meaning of the West by Don Cupitt
• Creativity by Patrick Sandford (This is an audio podcast – 41 mins long)

Poetry

• Prayer by George Herbert
• The Over-Reachers by Anne Ashworth
• A Bunch of Honesty by Anne Ashworth

Reviews

• Essay: Michael Morton reviews The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton
• Ethics: Tim Jackson reviews A Moral Climate — The Ethics of Global Warming by Michael Northcott
• Ancient World: John Seargeant reviews Eternal Questions by Sylvia Moody
• Religion: John Nurser reviews The Religious Crisis of the 1960s by Hugh McLeod
• Museum: Cicely Herbert visits the Chelsea Army Museum and Royal Army Pensioners’ Hospital
• Poetry: Kathleen McPhilemy reviews Antarctica by Dilys Wood

Regulars

• Letters
• Current Affair by Owl