Previous T4CG Events
Explore our previous events below.
May 2026
#05: Staying Human: AI, the Future of Work and Christian Discernment
Matthew Sanders examines the impact of the AI and Robotics revolution on work, livelihoods and purpose. Drawing on Catholic Social Teaching and in light of the anniversary of Rerum Novarum, he explores how to uphold human agency and enhance relationality despite profound change - and how to mitigate the potential for social unrest. Booking is now open ...
November 2025
Staying Human #04: Useful Lives?
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 we respond? What can inspire a new, constructive imagination? This T4CG lecture features Dan Hitchens investigating the advance of assisted suicide as a hinge moment and what this profound shift signals for British society. ...
October 2025
Staying Human #03: Being a Person in the Age of AI
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 we respond? What can inspire a new, constructive imagination? This T4CG lecture features Susannah Black Roberts who proposes an everyday Christian asceticism to preserve our humanity in an AI-flooded world that threatens to make us obsolete. ...
September 2025
Staying Human #02: Statecraft for the Common Good
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 we respond? What can inspire a new, constructive imagination? This T4CG lecture features Jon Cruddas and Maurice Glasman addressing how the political economy and the state can be reformed in the age of AI to help us stay human. ...
February 2025
Staying Human #01: 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 we 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 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 ...
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