William Temple Foundation

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 […]

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 […]