William Temple Foundation

‘We should love our family first, then our neighbours, then love our community, then our country, and only then consider the interests of the rest of the world.’ These, the […]

The Foundation has long entertained the idea of reconnecting with its roots and re-building its programme of lifelong learning as a ‘College without Walls’ to address the challenges of contemporary […]

This Foundation seeks to understand the signs of the times and to look forwards by encouraging faith in the public square. It might seem paradoxical, therefore, to look backwards through […]

Grace Davie I very much enjoyed the exchange between Linda Woodhead and John Denham as each of them engaged the question of the place of the Church of England in […]

We first met Precious two years ago when she turned up to morning worship. She had recently arrived with her nine year old child from one of Britain’s former colonies. […]

A response to the launch of “Towards the Conversion of the Church of England by the Rest of England” As necessitated by its name, a lot of the discussion surrounding […]

This blog is written the day after the Foundation published a Temple book entitled ‘Towards the Conversion of the Church of England by the rest of England’, and of course […]

Do local communities and networks have special powers to succeed where state powers fail? And what superpowers do they have at their disposal?

Jessica Giles SFHEA is a senior law lecturer at The Open University and a barrister. To some extent there is nothing new about the conflict between religions, or the conflict […]

At a recent meeting of the church council I chair, I told the trustees that are responsible for assets totalling many, many, millions of pounds. After this deliberately administered shock, […]