William Temple Foundation

Thanks to the pioneering work of Dr Katya Braginskaia, our Digital Education Lead, the William Temple Foundation is holding a virtual Festival of Public Theology this summer. We look forward […]

This extended blog is an extract from a speech given by Professor Chris Baker at events in Durham and Newcastle in March 2024 to mark the launch of the Foundation’s […]

Almost ten years ago to the day I joined Communities Together Durham (CTD) as a community development worker and today is my last day as I move to another role. […]

In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells a parable about a Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16). In the parable, the landowner hires several workers throughout the day.  We’re told that the first […]

This Lent I am feeling the tension between action and contemplation more acutely than ever. ‘Our Lent should awaken a sense of social justice’ As always the words that Oscar […]

In the heart of the London docklands, just the other side of the Thames from the O2 Arena, is a squat stone lighthouse at the end of Trinity Bouy Wharf. […]

For nearly 50 years now I have been a Hammer; for the uninitiated that means a fan of West Ham United FC. I have supported them through triumph (The FA […]

It is now mid-January, and the weekend’s newspapers were still full of the story that captured people’s attention on New Year’s Day – the  hundreds of  sub-postmasters and mistresses  wrongly  […]

At the start of this election year of 2024, we at the Foundation are asking the question: If what we need to rediscover as a society is a sense of […]

When I was at junior school in the 1980s, the nuns decided that it would be best for us to learn the hymns that we would sing at assemblies and […]