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Will the poor always be with us?

Season 4 of Questions of our Times, where we explore some of today’s big questions in a series of interviews, launched earlier this month. We talked with Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Archdeacon of Liverpool, about how poverty affects the health of communities and individuals. The interview was conducted live on Premier Radio, and is now available […]

MPs to vote on assisted dying

Assisted suicide is in the news this month, and will likely remain there for the next few months, as a bill has been introduced in parliament to ‘allow adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards and protections, to request and be provided with assistance to end their own life’. The bill, introduced privately by […]

Faith, atheism, history, and a prayer for healing

Justin Brierley, whose podcast (and book) charts The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, met with Tom Holland, the celebrated historian, podcaster and self-described ‘Protestant agnostic’, for a public conversation last month. They spoke in Westminster Chapel before a live audience, and discussed the state of faith today, as well as Holland’s own intellectual and […]