William Temple Foundation

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 […]

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 […]