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Faith, Government and Society

Michael Wear, Obama’s faith advisor, says it is essential for people of faith to act together in their diversity, not only to ‘do’ compassion, but also to engage with politics and ‘seek the welfare…

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A Personal Church for the Common Good

True solutions to social problems come from within communities, not from outside institutions, but from the people themselves…

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Place: personal, prophetic and political

The politics and theology of place: its significance for church mission and for social peace…

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The Spiritual Poverty of the West

Can African Christianity illuminate what the West has lost?…

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Staying put

Sally Mann argues that there is something heroic about engaging with place for the long term by staying put…

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Community, callings and carpets

A story of incarnational life and Christian solidarity in a post industrial Cornish town…

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Always Open

Too many churches are keeping their doors closed. An open church can fulfil an important role in the rebuilding of our common life…

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Day of Transformation

Things are happening in the neighbourhood – God is at work in and through our relationships…

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The importance of connection

On the surface this is a story about how relationship with each other and with God makes it easier to face the natural reality of death. But it is also a story about the…

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All hands to the parish pump

Spirituality is not a personal holiness project. Churches are called to be places that irrigate relationships and which mediate between the realms…

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