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Qatar creates a vision in the Middle East

by William Temple Foundation

3 Dec 2021

William Temple Scholar Yasmin Khatun Dewan reflects on the significance of a recent exhibition in Qatar. I have just got back from Doha, Qatar. I was visiting the Gulf nation […]


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Dr Maria Power, Senior Research Fellow at the Foundation, asks what we can learn from Northern Ireland about tackling our polarised politics. When Pope Francis was on BBC Radio 4’s […]


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Dr Harvey Kwiyani, CEO of Global Connections, offers his take on the challenge of decolonising mission. The emergence of world Christianity in the past 50 years has some serious implications […]


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Rev’d Canon Dr Ellen Loudon reflects on kindness and introduces the work of Together Liverpool. I chair Together Liverpool, which, during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, started to develop […]


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Postdigital Theologies Workshop

by John Reader

8 Oct 2021

On 1st October 2021 the Ethical Futures Group hosted a workshop at Trinity College, Oxford, for participants to share material which will form part of the content of a forthcoming […]


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Tina Hearn turns to William Temple for the principles that must be prioritised in healthcare policymaking if we are to truly ‘build back better’. ‘History may not repeat itself, but […]


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Love and… Rage?

by Matthew Stemp

2 Jul 2021

Matt Stemp proposes that anger might be more fruitful than frustration as a galvanising emotion for climate protest. One of Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) rally cries in its early days as […]


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Gill Reeve wonders whether young adults today constitute a ‘sacrificed generation’. She suggests standing in solidarity with young people and turns to the example of Bishop James Jones for hope. […]


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Virtue-anchoring

by Simon Lee

4 Jun 2021

Simon Lee unpacks a naval metaphor and wonders whether we should focus more on virtue-anchoring than on virtue-signalling. Those of us who criticise virtue-signalling by others are, in a sense, […]


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Is Britain Flagging?

by Greg Smith

7 May 2021

In light of the prominence of the Union Jack in the news over recent months, Greg Smith considers the complex relationships between flag, state, and church. The newly unveiled Downing […]


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