William Temple Foundation

Reverend Dr Stephen Edwards, Team Rector of Wythenshawe and Area Dean of Withington, wonders whether the division between sacred and secular has always been blurred. “We’ve got two problems: we […]

Associate Research Fellow John Reader reflects on past visions, future projections, and the need for a better world in the here and now. Kelmscott Manor stands on the banks of […]

This blog is an edited version of the Temple Sermon, preached by the Revd Dr Hayley Matthews, Trustee of the William Temple Foundation, at The Queen’s College, Oxford, on Sunday […]

Tim Howles, Associate Research Fellow here at the William Temple Foundation, considers post-Brexit political community through the notions of islands, borders and spaces. I’ve recently been reading this wonderful essay […]

The Revd Canon Brian Mountford, Fellow and Chaplain of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, reflects on ethical description and legal protocol when it comes to religious hate crime in 2018. We […]

William Temple Scholar Yasmin Khatun Dewan considers another side to the question of modest fashion. Fashion is anything but modest. It is elaborate, extreme, and refined in its detail. Artistic […]

Rosie Dawson, Associate Research Fellow here at the William Temple Foundation, reflects on the Kavanaugh hearing and the state of American politics during a recent trip to Washington DC. I […]

Associate Research Fellow Tina Hearn urges us to allow ourselves to be shocked by some of the recent statistics on UK poverty and asks what action we can take. When […]

Communications Officer, Dr Tim Middleton, welcomes the new IPPR report on Economic Justice, but wonders if it goes far enough. The front page of a right-wing tabloid is not usually […]

Ageing church buildings regularly pose challenges. But Associate Research Fellow John Reader, rector of a large rural benefice, argues that they also help us to bridge the false divide between […]