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PUBLICATIONS

Before and Beyond the 'Big Society': John Milbank and the Church of England's Approach to Welfare

James Clarke & Co, Cambridge, England

A timely critique of Milbank’s theology of welfare and its influence on policy inside and outside the Church of England.

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R.H. Tawney, Equality and the NHS at 75

The Journal of Christian Social Ethics · January, 2024

An extended Forum contribution to the ongoing challenges for the NHS and social care.

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Liz Truss's Free Market Agenda for the UK: What Should be the Church of England's Response?

ABC Religion & Ethics · Oct 13, 2022

An exploration of how the Church of England might respond to the new economic agenda that is being championed by prime minister Liz Truss.

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Care and Support Reimagined 

St Mark's Sheffield - October 2023 

A reflection on "Care and Support Reimagined: A National Care Covenant for England."

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Speaking Truth To Power: A Reflection On The 'Dignity For All' Conference 

Modern Church - July 5, 2023 

Valuing experts by experience when it comes to poverty alleviation/avoidance.

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How can anything be more than the some of its parts?

Modern Church - February 2024 

How human creativity can never be reduced to purely rational explanations.

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Partnership to End Poverty 

Signs of the Times - July 2024

A piece on Gordon Brown’s thinking on poverty alleviation.

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Celebrating 40 Years of Faith in the City

Signs of the Times - May 2025

A book in Celebration of 40 Years of Faith in the City

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Radical Hope Podcast: Celebrating ‘Faith in the City’ 40 years on

The William Temple Foundation Podcast

Joe Forde reflects on forty years of ‘Faith in the City’.

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Celebrating 40 Years of Faith in the City

Church Action on Poverty blog article

The Theology of ‘Faith in the City’

'Faith In The City' 40 years on - William Temple Foundation 2025 

The Inapplicability of Liberation Theology in ‘Faith in the City’

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Faith in the City: Forty Years On

LSE · September 3rd, 2025

Reflecting on forty years of Faith in the City.

Radical, Catholic and Socialist - An appreciation of the life and work of Fr Kenneth Leech

CRCOnline · Mar 27, 2023

A tribute piece to the late Fr Kenneth Leech, the Anglo-Catholic Community Theologian, on his life and work.

Book Review: Beyond Establishment: Resetting Church-State Relations in England 

Jonathan Chaplin - SCM Press, 2022

An appraisal of an important contribution to the debate on whether to disestablish the Church of England.

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Book Review: Spirituality and Christian Belief

St Mark's Sheffield - October 2024 

A review of a book on the liberal, Christian thinking of Keith Ward

Let's End Poverty 

William Temple Foundation - November 2023

How can Christians best contribute to the Let’s End Poverty campaign, launched on 14th October, 2023?

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Book Review: Generous Faith

Sign Of The Times (Modern Church) - 2025

Perceptive Reflections Make The Case for Inclusive Church

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Blue Labour, Welfare and Catholic Social Teaching

Editorial about my work by Robin Gill

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A Tribute to Gustavo Gutiérrez

(8 June 1928 – 22 October 2024)

LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science) blog · November, 2024

A short tribute to the father of Liberation Theology

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The NHS and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Vindication of Christian Realism?

ABC Religion & Ethics · Aug 5, 2022

A defence of the British Welfare State.

Book Review: Christian Socialism: The Promise Of An Almost Forgotten Tradition

Philip Turner (James Clarke &Co, 2022)

An appraisal of an important contribution to the history of Christian Socialism and its on-going relevance...

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Urban Poverty Pilgrimage: Towards a Theological Practice

Church Action on Poverty - August 2023 

Exploring poverty and its causes and consequences in Sheffield.

William Temple Remembered

St Mark's Sheffield - May 2024 

A tribute piece to Archbishop William Temple on the 80th anniversary of his passing.

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Book Review: The Little Black Book Of The Populist Right

Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar

By-Line Books, 2024

A review of a book on the rise on National Populism and its significance

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Meet the Author: Our Q&A with Joe Forde

James Clarke & Co, Cambridge, England

We sat down for a chat with Joe Forde, author of Before and Beyond the ‘Big Society’.

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