Author of Before and Beyond the 'Big Society': John Milbank and the Church of England's Approach to Welfare
PUBLICATIONS
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.
Care and Support Reimagined
St Mark's Sheffield - October 2023
A reflection on "Care and Support Reimagined: A National Care Covenant for England."
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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?
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...
Urban Poverty Pilgrimage: Towards a Theological Practice
Church Action on Poverty - August 2023
Exploring poverty and its causes and consequences in Sheffield.
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.