Previous T4CG Events
Explore our previous events below.
February 2025
Staying Human: Reimagining the Spirit of the Commons
In this time of great change and as money and state powers intensify, people feel the loss of agency. There is growing discontent. But how should churches respond? What can inspire a new, constructive imagination? In this T4CG lecture, Luke Bretherton considers the Spirit of the Commons, the God-shaped space unmediated by the powers of market and state where we discover what it means to be human. ...
July 2024
2024 Series #02: Grace, Truth and the Common Good: The Future of Christian Social Action
Christian social action plays an increasingly significant role in alleviating the symptoms of poverty. But is it on the right road? Deteriorating economic and social conditions raise questions around justice, charity, power and authentic witness. At such a crossroads, Jon Kuhrt addresses these issues in a lecture in memory of the late Frank Field. ...
February 2024
2024 Series #01: The Common Good Response to Identity Politics
Many Christians are keen to make sense of the current confusions in our political and social life. Matthew Petrusek draws on the tradition of Catholic Social Thought to articulate the common good response to the various ideologies currently at war. Matt is the Senior Director and Professor of Catholic Ethics at the Word on Fire Institute ...
November 2023
Just Peace? #8 Lincoln Cathedral
Sr Helen Alford addresses the theme "Just Peace? On social peace and the causes of division" Drawing on Catholic social teaching, Sr Helen explores the causes of division from the perspectives of economy, anthropology, truth, freedom and natural law, and how the people of the Church are called to respond. Sr Helen Alford is president of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences at the Angelicum, Rome’s Pontifical University. An economist, she teaches economic ethics, the history of technology, labour politics, and Catholic social thought ...
October 2023
Just World? #7 Lincoln Cathedral
Revd Professor Alison Milbank addresses the theme "Just World? How does God call us to balance the interests of people and planet?" Drawing on Catholic social teaching, Professor Milbank explores the common good approach to the conflicting interests of environmental crisis and social injustice. Alison Milbank is Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Nottingham and has authored many books. She is an Anglican priest serving the parish church cathedral of Southwell Minster as priest vicar and Canon Theologian ...
September 2023
Just Working? #6a Lincoln Cathedral
Jon Cruddas, MP for Dagenham and Rainham explores why decent work must be the cornerstone of a politics of the common good and why work is fundamentally a spiritual activity through which people collaborate with God for the redemption of humanity. Jon was delayed in Parliament in July and so this was rescheduled for September. ...
July 2023
Just Working? #6 Lincoln Cathedral
Lord Glasman explores how the nature of work has changed and why corporations have gained power while workers have lost out, and explores how Catholic social thought can help us conceptualise a more stable and equal settlement. Maurice Glasman is the founder of Blue Labour, an English political theorist, a Labour life peer and Professor of Politics at St Mary’s University. He kindly stepped in for Jon Cruddas who was delayed in Parliament ...
May 2023
Just Economy? #5 Lincoln Cathedral
Lecture by Adrian Pabst, Deputy Director at NIESR and Professor of Politics at the University of Kent, looks at what needs to happen to change in the economy so that it works for the common good. This is the fifth in a series held by T4CG in partnership with Lincoln Cathedral. The series focuses on common good and civic renewal in terms of the economy, work, nature, the human being, social peace, politics and civic life through the lens of Anglican social engagement and Catholic Social Teaching. ...
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