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Dr John Reader reflects on proceedings at the recent Connecting Ecologies conference in Oxford. As reported by fellow Associate Research Fellow Tim Howles in an earlier blog, Campion Hall in […]


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Culture Wars and Happy Holidays

by Greg Smith

13 Dec 2017

Greg Smith sheds some light on the culture wars around Christmas, and the messages and mission of church in society. Christmas is approaching with all its familiar rituals and feasting. […]


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Hope Against Hope: A Necessary Madness?

by Matthew Stemp

8 Dec 2017

William Temple Scholar Matthew Stemp writes on the climate crisis and the psychology of a politics of hope. It’s a difficult time to be an environmentalist. During the recent UN […]


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A Prayer called Paddington

by Simon Reader

5 Dec 2017

Following a trip to the cinema, Simon Reader ponders our shared values and Justin Welby’s hard stare. “If we’re kind and polite, the world will be right.” Aunt Lucy I […]


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Our new Associate Research Fellow Tim Howles considers the Christian response to environmental change, and an exciting forthcoming conference. Pinned up on the notice-board of a church I once attended […]


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Can Transgressing Boundaries ever be Good?

by Chris Baker

13 Nov 2017

Professor Chris Baker reflects on two recent publications that consider the transgression of boundaries. Transgressing boundaries has been much in the news recently – and for all the wrong reasons. […]


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Halloween: a Trick or a Treat?

by Eve Poole

26 Oct 2017

Eve Poole considers the opportunity to affirm a Christian message and ritual around the festival of Halloween. It seems like supreme irony to me that our local playgroup has been told […]


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What have our Food and Bodies Become?

by Tina Hearn

26 Sep 2017

In a culture of both food deprivation and obesity crises, Tina Hearn considers how we might better think about food and about our bodies. In June, UNICEF published a report indicating that one […]


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On White Male Privilege in a Racist World

by Greg Smith

19 Sep 2017

Greg Smith considers white, male privilege and the role of the Church in a world still beset by racial inequality. Since the recent events in Charlottesville, North Carolina, we have […]


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Professor Chris Baker writes on neo-liberalism, spiritual capital and finance, ten years after the global financial crisis began Next month sees a series of important public events – lectures, panels, […]


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