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Jan 20th, 2025
In this episode Nicky and Matthew welcome Professor Martyn Percy to the podcast to discuss the significance of social media in Communications, Faith based Organisations and Dialogue in the public square. We cover topics from realism, to missionary anthropology, to the Makin Review and the resignation of Justin Welby, t...
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Nov 19th, 2024
This podcast is hosted by Dr Matthew Barber-Rowell, communications officer and research fellow for the William Temple Foundation, and a Dean’s scholar at Virginia Theological Seminary and Vice President for Communications at VTS Nicky Burridge. In this series we explore the contours of communications faith based organi...
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Jul 31st, 2024
In this special edition of the William Temple Foundation Podcast, our Director of Research Chris Baker, hosts a panel of international experts who explore the theme of Ethical Robots through the lenses of theology and philosophy, offering innovative insights from their own work and discussing key emerging issues such a...
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Apr 19th, 2024
Richard Irvine ends the series by joining the dots between geology and anthropology. Are these vast timescales ultimately dehumanising? And can we learn something about time from monastic communities?
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Apr 12th, 2024
In this episode, Simone Kotva speaks about deep time, religious apocalypse, and the ‘end of the world’. She makes the case that what we believe is potentially much less important than spiritual exercises and practices of attention for encouraging ecological concern.
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Apr 5th, 2024
In this episode, Cecil Abungu explains some of the philosophy of longtermism, and how it ties in to both the effective altruism movement and the study of existential risk. He also explores a variety of African perspectives on longtermism, suggesting how western voices might learn from indigenous thought when discussing...
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Mar 29th, 2024
Michelle Bastian raises some possible concerns with deep time thinking. She introduces a wide range of different ways of thinking about time, and reflects on some of the links between time and power. Are some of the popular engagements with deep time causing more harm than good?
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Mar 22nd, 2024
Manjana Milkoreit discusses the importance of imagination for thinking about the future. From climate fiction to dystopian film, she digs into what such creations reveal about our current priorities in the present—and why such imaginings need to be grounded in diverse communities.
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Mar 14th, 2024
In the first episode of Deep Time: Visions of the Earth’s Future, Richard Fisher explains what ‘deep time’ is and why people have become so interested in the long-term view. From Zoroastrian fires and Shinto temples to the concept of ‘cathedral thinking’, he also unpacks some of religion’s relationship to deep time.
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Jul 19th, 2022
Canon Kathryn Fitzsimons, Anglican priest of two parishes in highly contrasting areas of Leeds, reflects on some of the costs to challenging poverty and inequality in the city, and engaging with power structures to bring meaningful change.
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Jul 12th, 2022
Jamie Jones Buchanan, interim Head Coach of Leeds Rhinos Rugby League club, reflects on how sport can transform lives and outlooks for those facing their troubles, and the vital role of local sports clubs as beacons of hope and inclusivity.
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Jul 5th, 2022
Rev Dr Carol Tomlin reflects on her Leeds childhood as part of the Windrush generation, and how her role as both an academic educator and a Pentecostal minister allows her to address racial injustice across society, academia and the church.
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Jun 27th, 2022
Simon Phillips discusses his work as an interfaith leader and community engagement officer with Leeds Jewish Housing Association as both the Jewish community and wider city seek to develop compassion in the context of racial and economic injustice.
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Jun 16th, 2022
Mary Brennan talks about her work as a Leeds Poverty Truth Commissioner and the impacts poverty has on peoples' lives and wellbeing in her local neighbourhood of Cross Green.
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Jun 7th, 2022
Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Leeds City Council discusses how his childhood experiences have shaped his values and leadership approach in the face of the challenges and opportunities facing Leeds and the North of England.
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Jun 8th, 2021
Andrew Grinnell, co-director of the Poverty Truth Commission Network, describes the gifts and the wounds he has encountered whilst living alongside those experiencing poverty.
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Jun 1st, 2021
Mark Tan, intensive care doctor in Manchester, explains how understanding medicine as an act of faith helps deal with the uncertainty of a global pandemic. (Apologies for the poor sound quality on parts of this recording.)
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May 25th, 2021
Anderson Jeremiah discusses how being a Dalit has shaped his theology, and his work on the Archbishops' anti-racism taskforce.
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May 18th, 2021
Maria Power describes her own experience of The Troubles in Northern Ireland and explains how it has had an important influence on her academic work on peacebuilding.
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May 11th, 2021
The writer and theologian Andrew Graystone reflects on his work of accompanying those who have survived sexual abuse within the church.
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May 4th, 2021
Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe recounts some of the troubles she has faced when talking about climate change with evangelical Christians and political conservatives.
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Nov 17th, 2020
Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at Durham University and author of the report “For Our Welfare and Not for our harm” for the Jesuit Refugee Service. Here, she indicates troubles associated with forced migration and asylum-seeking.
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Nov 10th, 2020
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, Professor of Intellectual Disability and Palliative Care at Kingston University and a longstanding member of the L’Arche community, reflects on troubles of trust, grief and COVID-19.
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Nov 3rd, 2020
Azariah France-Williams, an Anglican priest working for the ecumenical HeartEdge initiative in Manchester, explores the trouble of institutional racism and the Church of England. His book Ghost Ship was published earlier this year.
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Oct 27th, 2020
Tobias Cremer discusses the troubling relationship between religion and the new wave of national populist movements.
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