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by Katya Braginskaia
19 Jun 2025
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, […]
This year sees the 40th anniversary of the 1985 publication of the Faith in the City Report (FITC) – a landmark moment on the Church of England’s engagement with urban […]
by Matthew Barber-Rowell
20 May 2025
On 30th April 2025 the William Temple Foundation gathered at the Inner Temple to establish a search for hope across the public square. The breadth of this search can be […]
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 […]