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Church and State in a post-Welby era

by Yazid Said

6 Jan 2025

One had hoped that the civil wars within the Church of England and the political wrangling over appointments that one reads in Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles were a thing of […]


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A Christmas Story: Unto Us a Child is Born!

by Ericcson Mapfumo

16 Dec 2024

Each time Christmas approaches l can’t help but imagine what it must have been like when Jesus was born. To me it seems it is about the story of Jesus, […]


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It’s three weeks since Donald Trump won the 2024 US election to take the reins of the most powerful country in the world as the 47th President of the United […]


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The William Temple Foundation is grateful to Andrew Graystone for his 2021 podcast and his 2022 Temple Tract on the tragic and large-scale abuse by John Smyth.  It was through […]


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Remembrance Day: Just Decision Making II

by Matthew Barber-Rowell

11 Nov 2024

Today is Remembrance Day. Each year people gather at the cenotaph, wreathes are laid, silence falls, and the last post heralds as respects are paid to the dead and their […]


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Ian Mayer DL is a Trustee of the William Temple Foundation, Deputy Lieutenant of South Yorkshire, a tech entrepreneur and a Public Leadership Ambassador for the Evangelical Alliance. Ian authored […]


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Just Decision-making

by Matthew Barber-Rowell

1 Nov 2024

This week the Labour government released their first budget. Chancellor Rachel Reeves cautioned us about the scale and seriousness of the decisions being faced and set out that taking action […]


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Assisted Arguing

by Simon Lee

18 Oct 2024

Whether you are for or against law reform to facilitate assisted dying, and whether or not you prefer to call it assisted suicide, we can all benefit from some assistance […]


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Industrial Lancashire was characterised by cotton, and the weaving of cloth – but poverty and inequality were rife. Today, the challenge is to reweave the fabric of society so that, […]


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All the time, we try to make advances in society, we realise that sometimes the past is forgotten, or things that were discarded in past years, are resurfacing once again, […]


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