William Temple Foundation

The world right now can feel like it is falling apart. Power dynamics that have existed from long before I was born are changing. Many of the institutions in which […]

Democratic politics in Japan and the UK are entering a period of instability. Populist movements are gaining ground, established parties are losing authority, and political debate is marked by anger, […]

Hospitality Vulnerability and Resilience. The foundation has recently launched an online course to help people of faith to engage reflectively with community work among asylum seekers, refugees, and other migrant […]

‘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 […]