William Temple Foundation

by Edward Hadas

8 May 2020

In this edited version of an article first published by Second Spring, Edward Hadas, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall in Oxford and member of the Las Casas Institute, offers his take on our current viral injustices. These days, when we are not mourning, fretting, suffering, volunteering, or just getting on with our newly isolated lives, we […]

by John Loughlin

1 May 2020

Professor John Loughlin, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall in Oxford and member of the Las Casas Institute, reflects on what our current crisis reveals about our attitudes to human dignity. The current pandemic is illuminating because it confirms a Christian understanding of human dignity: that all human life is sacred, and that a vast effort of […]

by John Reader

24 Apr 2020

Senior Research Fellow Dr John Reader reviews Bruno Latour’s book ‘Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime’ and wonders whether a shared politics relies on a shared earth. Latour’s basic hypothesis is that we cannot understand the last 50 years unless we recognise the intimate connections between globalisation, the explosion of inequality, and […]