Sofia Magazine
The Network has published over 150 issues of a magazine since 1990. It is now published quarterly and is called Sofia.
All members receive printed issues of the magazine with their membership. Non-members can also subscribe here to receive printed issues.
Recent magazines appear as thumbnails below. You can click through to either download the full magazine issue as a PDF, or to see the online versions of the articles in that magazine.
Not all of our magazines have thumbnails. A full list of links to download the PDFs of all our magazines is below.
Listed here are links to PDFs of all the SOF (Sea of Faith) Network magazines, which explore religion as a human creation. The early magazines were called The Sea of Faith Magazine, then Sea of Faith, and later SOF. The magazine’s name was changed to Sofia from issue 75.
- Issues 1-10 were edited by Clive Richards
- Issues 11-21 were edited by David Boulton
- Issues 22-27 were edited by Anthony Freeman
- Issues 28-51 were edited by David Boulton
- Issues 52-67 were edited by Paul Overend
- Issues 68 – 154 were edited by Dinah Livingstone
- Issues 155 – 158 were edited by David Chapman
- From issue 159, Sofia is edited by Paul Overend
An index of authors has been compiled that covers our complete archive of magazines from no.1 Spring 1990 to no.142 December 2021.
Sofia supports the Sea of Faith Network’s charitable aim ‘to advance the education of the public in religious studies with particular reference to religious faith seen as a human creation’.
The relevant editors invite submissions of articles (on the theme of the edition as announced in the previous editions), arts and book reviews, notices of new books, and letters.
The Managing Editor:
Paul Overend, editor@sofn.uk
Copy editors:
Arts editor: vacant
Books Editor: David Lambourn, books@sofn.uk
Letters Editor: Stephen Mitchell, letters@sofn.uk
From 2026, the Sofia house style is based on MHRA Style Guide (4th ed., 2024) and is available on request.
Sofia Magazine PDF Archives
Sea of Faith no.1 Spring 1990
Sea of Faith no.2 Summer 1990
Sea of Faith no.3 Autumn 1990
Sea of Faith no.4 Winter 1990-1991
Sea of Faith no.5 Spring 1991
Sea of Faith no.6 Summer 1991
Sea of Faith no.7 Autumn 1991
Sea of Faith no.8 Winter 1991-1992
Sea of Faith no.9 Spring 1992
Sea of Faith no.10 Summer 1992
Sea of Faith Sample Edition 1992
Sea of Faith no.11 October 1992
Sea of Faith no.12 January 1993
Sea of Faith no.13 April 1993
Sea of Faith no.14 July 1993
Sea of Faith no.15 October 1993
Sea of Faith no.16 January 1994
SOF no.17 April 1994
SOF no.18 July 1994
SOF no.19 October 1994
SOF no.20 January 1995
SOF no.21 April 1995
SOF no.22 July 1995
SOF no.23 October 1995
SOF no.24 January 1996
SOF no.25 April 1996
SOF no.26 July 1996
SOF no.27 October 1996
SOF no.28 Spring 1997
SOF no.29 Summer 1997
SOF no.30 Autumn 1997
SOF no.31 Winter 1997
SOF no.32 Spring 1998
SOF no.33 Summer 1998
SOF no.34 Autumn 1998
SOF no.35 Winter 1998
SOF no.36 Spring 1999
SOF no.37 Summer 1999
SOF no.38 Autumn 1999
SOF no.39 Winter 1999
SOF no.40 March 2000
SOF no.41 May 2000
SOF no.42 July 2000
SOF no.43 September 2000
SOF no.44 November 2000
SOF no.45 January 2001
SOF no.46 March 2001
SOF no.47 May 2001
SOF no.48 July 2001
SOF no.49 September 2001
SOF no.50 November 2001
SOF no.51 January 2002
SOF no.52 March 2002
SOF no.53 May 2002
SOF no.54 July 2002
SOF no.55 September 2002
SOF no.56 November 2002
SOF no.57 January 2003
SOF no.58 Special Edition (March) 2003
SOF no.59 May 2003
SOF no.60 June 2003
SOF no.61 September 2003
SOF no.62 November 2003
SOF no.63 January 2004
SOF no.64 March 2004
SOF no.65 May 2004
SOF no.66 July 2004
SOF no.67 September 2004
SOF no.68 November 2004
SOF no.69 January 2005
SOF no.70 March 2005
SOF no.71 May 2005
SOF no.72 July 2005
SOF no.73 September 2005
SOF no.74 November 2005
Sofia no.75 January 2006
Sofia no.76 March 2006
Sofia no.77 May 2006
Sofia no.78 July 2006
Sofia no.79 September 2006
Sofia no.80 November 2006
Sofia no.81 January 2007
Sofia no.82 March 2007
Sofia no.83 May 2007
Sofia no.84 July 2007
Sofia no.85 September 2007
Sofia no.86 November 2007
Sofia no.87 March 2008
Sofia no.88 June 2008
Sofia no.89 September 2008
Sofia no.90 December 2008
Sofia no.91 March 2009
Sofia no.92 June 2009
Sofia no.93 September 2009
Sofia no.94 December 2009
Sofia no.95 March 2010
Sofia no.96 June 2010
Sofia no.97 September 2010
Sofia no.98 December 2010
Sofia no.99 March/April 2011
Sofia no.100 June 2011
Sofia no.101 September 2011
Sofia no.102 December 2011
Sofia no.103 March/April 2012
Sofia no.104 June 2012
Sofia no.105 September 2012
Sofia no.106 December 2012
Sofia no.107 March 2013
Sofia no.108 June 2013
Sofia no.109 September 2013
Sofia no.110 Christmas 2013
Sofia no.111 Easter 2014
Sofia no.112 June 2014
Sofia no.113 September 2014
Sofia no.114 Christmas 2014
Sofia no.115 Easter 2015
Sofia no.116 June 2015
Sofia no.117 September 2015
Sofia no.118 Christmas 2015
Sofia no.119 Easter 2016
Sofia no.120 June 2016
Sofia no.121 September 2016
Sofia no.122 Christmas 2016
Sofia no.123 Easter 2017
Sofia no.124 June 2017
Sofia no.125 September 2017
Sofia no.126 Christmas 2017
Sofia no.127 March 2018
Sofia no.128 June 2018
Sofia no.129 September 2018
Sofia no.130 December 2018
Sofia no.131 March 2019
Sofia no.132 June 2019
Sofia no.133 September 2019
Sofia no.134 December 2019
Sofia no.136 June 2020
Sofia no.137 September 2020
Sofia no.138 December 2020
Sofia no.139 March 2021
Sofia no.140 June 2021
Sofia no.141 September 2021
Sofia no.142 December 2021
Sofia no.143 March 2022
Sofia no.144 June 2022
Sofia no.145 September 2022
Sofia no.146 December 2022
Sofia no.147 March 2023
Sofia no.148 June 2023
Sofia no.149 September 2023
Sofia no.150 December 2023
Sofia no.151 March 2024
Sofia no.152 June 2024
Sofia no. 153 September 2024
Sofia no. 154 December 2024
Sofia no. 157 September 2025
Sofia no. 158 December 2025
Sofia no. 159 March 2026