Reflections Reflections David Boulton, editor of SOF, provided this overview of the 2000 SoF UK conference. The UK Sea of Faith Network's 13th annual conference at Leicester in July had the whiff of rebellion about it. Not that the members themselves were revolting.
Vision is the right word.
Religion is no longer about supernatural beliefs and the after-life. It is our communal way of generating dreams of how we and our life and our world might be made better. Raficq's rebelliousness took a different turn. Rumi, we were told, was the most popular poet in America till Seamus Heaney stole the limelight. Stephen Batchelor lived up to his reputation as the Don Cupitt of Buddhism.