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It might be said that Pope Leo XIV has tough acts to follow in Pope Francis, in Pope Leo XIII, the architect of Catholic Social Thinking/Teaching, and indeed in all the Popes going back to St Peter. Or we […]

When asked about Pope Francis over these past twelve years, I have enjoyed replying that Francis is my middle name, both in the sense that my name is Simon Francis […]

In almost any podcast, classroom or news show there is a growing sense of the reality and urgency attached to difference. Words like ‘polarised’ or ‘binary’ or ‘siloed’ find their […]

Faith in the City is one of the most substantial documents on welfare provision and Urban Mission and Ministry in England, to have been published in the post-war period. Issued […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]