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This extended blog is an extract from a speech given by Professor Chris Baker at events in Durham and Newcastle in March 2024 to mark the launch of the Foundation’s […]


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Almost ten years ago to the day I joined Communities Together Durham (CTD) as a community development worker and today is my last day as I move to another role. […]


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In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells a parable about a Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16). In the parable, the landowner hires several workers throughout the day.  We’re told that the first […]


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Lenten Tension; Action Vs Contemplation

by Val Barron

21 Feb 2024

This Lent I am feeling the tension between action and contemplation more acutely than ever. ‘Our Lent should awaken a sense of social justice’ As always the words that Oscar […]


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Deep Time: Visions of the Earth’s Future

by Tim Middleton

16 Feb 2024

In the heart of the London docklands, just the other side of the Thames from the O2 Arena, is a squat stone lighthouse at the end of Trinity Bouy Wharf. […]


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Positionality

by Greg Smith

23 Jan 2024

For nearly 50 years now I have been a Hammer; for the uninitiated that means a fan of West Ham United FC. I have supported them through triumph (The FA […]


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Just Delivery

by Rosie Dawson

18 Jan 2024

It is now mid-January, and the weekend’s newspapers were still full of the story that captured people’s attention on New Year’s Day – the  hundreds of  sub-postmasters and mistresses  wrongly  […]


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At the start of this election year of 2024, we at the Foundation are asking the question: If what we need to rediscover as a society is a sense of […]


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Where might we find Radical Hope?

by Maria Power

24 Dec 2023

When I was at junior school in the 1980s, the nuns decided that it would be best for us to learn the hymns that we would sing at assemblies and […]


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Last week on twitter,  Humanists UK, quoting their Vice President, Professor Alice Roberts argued, ‘We really don’t need more faith schools in this country. I wish the government would prioritise inclusive […]


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