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Associate Research Fellow Greg Smith reflects on a holiday hunger programme in Preston and the Biblical principle of manna. Over the past few weeks, a major part of my work […]


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#ThesePeople

by Rosie Dawson

3 Aug 2018

Rosie Dawson, Associate Research Fellow at the William Temple Foundation, prompts us to recognise the invisible victims of abuse. There were numerous jaw-dropping moments during the Independent Inquiry into Child […]


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William Temple Scholar Valerie Barron reports back from her recent event on theology and social enterprise in the northeast of England. Two weeks ago, I held my first event as […]


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The Anthropocene: Disrupting all our Stories

by Matthew Stemp

26 Jun 2018

William Temple Scholar Matthew Stemp reflects on the 30th anniversary of an important intervention in the debate and discourse around climate change. On June 23rd 1988, James Hansen gave his famous […]


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Vicky Beeching – Undivided and Undeterred

by Simon Reader

21 Jun 2018

Simon Reader reviews Vicky Beeching’s new book, Undivided: Coming out, becoming whole and living free from shame. I had the good fortune of meeting Vicky Beeching a few times when I […]


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Associate Research Fellow Tim Howles considers the genius of Stephen Hawking and his insights into the politics of scientific discovery. Earlier this year we learned with sadness of the passing-away of […]


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Tina Hearn considers the underlying causes of the recent Windrush scandal and the dehumanisation of public policy. The impacts of the UK’s ‘Hostile Environment’ immigration policy have been truly shocking. From […]


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Professor Chris Baker on an ingenious Hollywood-inspired fundraising campaign outside his local church. St Mary’s, Stoke Newington (where I am a regular attender), like a lot of churches and faith […]


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Reimagining Church in Action

by Val Barron

19 Apr 2018

William Temple Scholar Val Barron considers the challenges and opportunities of Christian based social enterprise. Like the Archbishop of Canterbury I have been doing much reimagining recently, although my focus has […]


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Tim Howles considers how the environmental crisis might revive our conceptualisation of utopia and our political agency. Like many of us, I will very soon be voting in council elections. The party-political literature […]


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