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Associate Research Fellow Rosie Dawson reflects on Trump’s highly controversial pose outside St John’s Episcopal church last week and wonders if the key to the American election lies in the […]


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Lockdown, liminality and local leadership

by Matthew Barber-Rowell

2 Jun 2020

In this week’s blog, William Temple Scholar Matthew Barber reflects on both the disorientation and the opportunities presented by life in lockdown and urges us to see local leadership as […]


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Professor Chris Baker reflects on the Bishops’ contribution to the debate about Dominic Cummings and wonders whether it heralds a more sustained vision for our national future. I struggled with […]


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In this extended post, Dr Sanjee Perera reflects on her research with the Minority Anglican Project and what the BAME death toll in the current COVID-19 pandemic reveals about how […]


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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 […]


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COVID-19, Christianity and human dignity

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 […]


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William Temple Scholar Val Barron offers a frank report on those who are going hungry as a result of the current crisis, and introduces some of the work that is […]


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Associate Research Fellow Tim Howles reflects on our desire for a coronavirus vaccine, and draws on the work of Isabelle Stengers to suggest what this might highlight about the wider […]


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In this uncertain time, Associate Research Fellow Greg Smith discusses the existential risks we currently face and wonders whether there is anything we can learn from the biblical notion of […]


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This week’s blog comes from Dr Karen Lord, a member of our William Temple Ethical Futures network. Dr Lord is an award-winning author whose writing focusses on possible futures and […]


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