William Temple Foundation

by John Reader

6 Mar 2020

John Reader, one of our Senior Research Fellows, reviews Timothy Snyder’s book ‘The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America’ and suggests that a digital ethics for public life is urgently needed in today’s political climate. My particular interest in this book centres on the impact of digital media on political life in Russia, Europe and […]

by John Henry

21 Feb 2020

In this week’s extended blog John Henry, an ordinand at Ripon College Cuddesdon, argues that we must take some of the responsibility for how our data is used. My Facebook ID is 36,811,991. This means that if you represent Facebook’s 2.4bn active users as 1,000 people in a field, I would be the 15th person […]

by Rosie Dawson

14 Feb 2020

Rosie Dawson, Associate Research Fellow at the William Temple Foundation, reviews ‘Tragedies and Christian Congregations: the practical Theology of Trauma’ edited by Megan Warner, Christopher Southgate, Carla Grosch-Miller and Hilary Ison, and reminds us that churches can be both comforters after, and perpetrators of, trauma. “This is an extremely important book,” writes Bishop James Jones […]