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This blog is the second of three produced by Research Fellow Dr Matthew Barber-Rowell, as part of our Fellows Fund Programme. In this series, Dr Barber-Rowell sets out the potential role for intra-communities dialogue and local leadership for Curating Spaces of Hope in a post-pandemic society. This will be followed by blogs published on 10th May.


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This blog is the first of three produced by Research Fellow Dr Matthew Barber-Rowell, as part of our Fellows Fund Programme. In this series, Dr Barber-Rowell sets out the potential role for intra-communities dialogue and local leadership for Curating Spaces of Hope in a post-pandemic society. This will be followed by blogs published on the 3rd and 10th May.


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An Easter Vision – Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York

by William Temple Foundation

19 Apr 2022

In this special blog for Eastertide, Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, explains the Church of England’s new vision for the 2020s.


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Conversations on Black Lives Matter

by Israel Olofinjana

31 Jan 2022

Rev’d Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana asks how the church can answer to questions about race and identity today: “If we agree that all lives do indeed matter and we share this understanding that we have a shared humanity rooted in God, then it should concern us all when black lives are made cheap.”


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Reading, Religion and the “Levelling-Up” Agenda

by Sorrel Shamel-Wood

10 Dec 2021

Rev’d Sorrel Shamel-Wood argues that literacy is central to “levelling-up”, and that, given Christianity’s close relationship to texts, Christians should be at the forefront of promoting this agenda. Surely few […]


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Qatar creates a vision in the Middle East

by William Temple Foundation

3 Dec 2021

William Temple Scholar Yasmin Khatun Dewan reflects on the significance of a recent exhibition in Qatar. I have just got back from Doha, Qatar. I was visiting the Gulf nation […]


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Dr Maria Power, Senior Research Fellow at the Foundation, asks what we can learn from Northern Ireland about tackling our polarised politics. When Pope Francis was on BBC Radio 4’s […]


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Dr Harvey Kwiyani, CEO of Global Connections, offers his take on the challenge of decolonising mission. The emergence of world Christianity in the past 50 years has some serious implications […]


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Rev’d Canon Dr Ellen Loudon reflects on kindness and introduces the work of Together Liverpool. I chair Together Liverpool, which, during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, started to develop […]


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Postdigital Theologies Workshop

by John Reader

8 Oct 2021

On 1st October 2021 the Ethical Futures Group hosted a workshop at Trinity College, Oxford, for participants to share material which will form part of the content of a forthcoming […]


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