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The Common Good Response to Identity Politics

In the first of our 2024 series of public talks Matthew Petrusek explores the common good response to the secular ideologies that are challenging our culture…

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Living the Common Good

Jenny Sinclair leads a mission day reading the signs of the times and explores what it takes to become a common good community.…

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Lincoln Lecture Series

A series of lectures held in partnership with Lincoln Cathedral: how can social theology help us play our part in spiritual and civic renewal? …

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The modern day pharaohs

Jenny Sinclair discusses with Phillip Ullmann the impact of our modern economy on human beings, using the biblical analogy of Egypt and drawing on insights from Catholic Social Thought…

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Rebel with a cause

The story of T4CG, as told by Jenny Sinclair, exploring its origins in Liverpool, its work today, and why the common good is needed in an age of cultural and social unravelling…

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The Way of Peace

The T4CG Christmas-New Year Newsletter 2023-2024 – relationship is not a soft alternative to speaking truth to power – it is the antidote to individualism.…

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Justice and Peace

T4CG Newsletter for Christ the King 2023. How the Church is called to justice and peace at this time of instability…

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Whose Justice?

T4CG Newsletter for Michaelmas 2023. Why campaigns to end poverty through welfarism repress and marginalise prophetic justice.…

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The Meaning of Good

T4CG Newsletter for Summer 2023. Choosing good calls us into a life-giving story of local relationships, rejecting the false claims of anti-humanism…

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Divine irrigation

Facing the reality of church decline, a vicar uncovers the true vocation of his parish…

The future of UK Christian social action
As poverty gets worse, how should the church respond?Read More
Poverty – under our own roof
For Lent, Jo Stow encourages schools to take a more relational approach to charity and to notice hidden poverty in the classroom Read More
T4CG at Word on Fire
Jenny Sinclair speaks about the Bible, the common good and Catholic Social Teaching at the Word on Fire conference 2025Read More
Staying Human: Reimagining the Spirit of the Commons
In the emerging new era, people feel a loss of agency. How should the church respond? Luke Bretherton gives the first T4CG public lecture of 2025Read More
Forgive each other
The T4CG Lent 2025 Newsletter. In this time of seismic change, we must resist division and work togetherRead More