Great and timely reflection from Paul Bickley on the finding in our latest #ReligionCounts paper that the UK is most hostile to asylum seekers. National debate is divorced from reality, and soaring rhetoric is unlikely to be the answer. But hard work and better systems might be?

🔔 NEW EPISODE 🔔

We spoke to Caroline Lucas, former Green Party leader about the challenge of retaining your values in our political system and the role of imagination in tackling our political and climate crises 🎙️🌿

Find the full episode here👇
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Do you care what happens to your body after your death?🪦🤔

🎙️ICYMI listen back to Madeleine Pennington on last night's BBC Radio 4 Moral Maze where she discussed the question 'Do we need a final farewell?'
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Cheering on our excellent and wise Madeleine Pennington as she appears as a witness on tonight's Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4, talking about funerals in an age of decreasing religiosity, and our Theos Think Tank research. Tune in at 8pm
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New episode with Caroline Lucas 🎙️🌿

In our latest episode, we spoke to Caroline about the challenges of our political system and the role of the imagination in inspiring empathy and understanding 🤝

Full conversation👇
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Episode 5 of The Sacred is out today. In it Elizabeth Oldfield speaks with former The Green Party leader Caroline Lucas about politics, climate, death and the need for imagination.

Tune in today 🎧

This week's guest on the Sacred is Caroline Lucas 🌿🎙️

Caroline Lucas is a British politician who has served twice as leader of the Green Party and is now training as an end-of-life doula.

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“I don’t think religion should be pushed to one side or compartmentalised. It is the air we breathe. We are all vastly more religious than many of us realise.”

Tom Holland picks up the trustees’ Sandford St Martin, telling the audience it’s made his decade #sandford2024

Dacher Keltner on how we are constantly oscillating between our very ordinary ego-concerns and awe-inspiring, transcendent moments 🌍 🌌

Full episode here: bit.ly/3Rp3PPL

Brilliant piece from my Theos Think Tank boss Chine McDonald on our disconnection & lack of trust in politics. (It's a genuine privilege to work with MPs/candidates and know them on first name terms as good humans with real lives, joys & headaches.) ft.com/content/70d5dc…

🪙What to the religious think about the #economy 🪙

Virtually no one thinks that the income gap between rich and poor is ‘too small’, but...

📍13% of the general population and 16% of Christians think that income inequality is ‘about right’
📍Anglicans lead the way at 17%

Great piece by Chine McDonald at Theos Think Tank on how the trust issue goes much deeper than national politics. It’s about our relationships with each other and the strength we find in community. on.ft.com/4cifvfe

Brilliant to see Theos Think Tank and Chine McDonald getting media opportunities like this. Demonstrates the standing that Theos has justifiably earned in the public square.

My piece in today's Financial Times on why trust in politics might be at an all-time low.

on.ft.com/3KLb9BE

🔎 What do the religious think about key election issues? 🙏

It's #ManifestoWeek ! To mark it, we have released our fifth #ReligionCounts paper exploring what religious people think about the key issues.

Read along for the highlights 🧵theosthinktank.co.uk/research/2024/…