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Jessica Giles SFHEA is a senior law lecturer at The Open University and a barrister. To some extent there is nothing new about the conflict between religions, or the conflict […]


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At a recent meeting of the church council I chair, I told the trustees that are responsible for assets totalling many, many, millions of pounds. After this deliberately administered shock, […]


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This year sees the 40th anniversary of the 1985 publication of the Faith in the City Report (FITC) – a landmark moment on the Church of England’s engagement with urban […]


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On 30th April 2025 the William Temple Foundation gathered at the Inner Temple to establish a search for hope across the public square. The breadth of this search can be […]


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It might be said that Pope Leo XIV has tough acts to follow in Pope Francis, in Pope Leo XIII, the architect of Catholic Social Thinking/Teaching, and indeed in all the Popes going back to St Peter. Or we […]


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When asked about Pope Francis over these past twelve years, I have enjoyed replying that Francis is my middle name, both in the sense that my name is Simon Francis […]


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Resilience, Resistance & Radical Hope

by Deirdre Brower-Latz

28 Feb 2025

In almost any podcast, classroom or news show there is a growing sense of the reality and urgency attached to difference. Words like ‘polarised’ or ‘binary’ or ‘siloed’ find their […]


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Celebrating 40 Years of Faith in the City

by Joseph Forde

10 Feb 2025

Faith in the City is one of the most substantial documents on welfare provision and Urban Mission and Ministry in England, to have been published in the post-war period. Issued […]


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Church and State in a post-Welby era

by Yazid Said

6 Jan 2025

One had hoped that the civil wars within the Church of England and the political wrangling over appointments that one reads in Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles were a thing of […]


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A Christmas Story: Unto Us a Child is Born!

by Ericcson Mapfumo

16 Dec 2024

Each time Christmas approaches l can’t help but imagine what it must have been like when Jesus was born. To me it seems it is about the story of Jesus, […]


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