Together for the Common Good Podcast

Nov 25 2024 14 ep. 52 mins 2
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A collection of talks exploring the common good as a catalyst to spiritual and civic renewal. In this time of upheaval, we address the big questions of our day - what it means to be human, justice, power, statecraft, economy, work, nature, social peace, technology, civic life - and much more. Speakers draw on the tradition of Catholic Social Thought to show in practical ways how common good thinking opens up pathways to hope. Soundtrack: Stuart Sinclair

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Special episode - Written in Blood with Jenny Sinclair

Nov 25 2024 44 mins  
In this time of seismic change and instability, many of us are finding the scale of injustice overwhelming. It can be inspiring to look to the Christian martyrs for justice whose lives were “written in blood” – extraordinary people whose stories of truth, justice and peace, in the face of indifference and opposition, offered witness to a hope-filled future of solidarity and f

The 2024 Series EP#02 Grace, Truth and the Common Good the Future of Christian Social Action - With Jon Kuhrt

Jul 19 2024 51 mins  
Christian social action has grown significantly in the UK over the last two decades. But too often well-intentioned charitable initiatives are disconnected from justice, can deepen dependency and can drift in a secular direction. In a time of profound social and political change and increasing inequality, Jon Kuhrt opens up an honest conversation about impact, power and authentic C

The 2024 Series EP#01 Evangelisation and Ideology: The Common Good Response to Identity Politics With Matthew Petrusek

Mar 07 2024 64 mins  
Matt Petrusek demystifies the new secular ideologies, exploring their origins and features, offering a common good response rooted in the Catholic Social Thought tradition. He shows how this serves as an antidote to identity politics, providing us with not only a worldview shaped around the transcendent nature of the person, but also, in this moment of cultural confusion, an opport

LINCOLN LECTURE SERIES EP#09: JUST PEACE? On social peace and the causes of division. With Sr Helen Alford

Mar 06 2024 70 mins  
Drawing on Catholic Social Teaching, Sr Helen Alford examines the causes of division from the perspectives of economy, anthropology, truth, freedom and natural law, and explores how the people of the church are called to respond.Sr Helen Alford is president of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and Dean of the Faculty for Social Sciences at the Angelicum, Rome’s Pontifica

LINCOLN LECTURE SERIES EP#08: JUST WORLD? How does God call us to balance the interests of people and planet? With Alison Milbank

Mar 05 2024 67 mins  
Drawing on Catholic Social Teaching, Alison Milbank explores the common good approach to the conflicting interests of the environmental crisis and social injustice, and how the local church can be a part of the solution.Alison Milbank is Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Nottingham and has authored many books. She is Priest Vicar and Canon Theologian at Sout

LINCOLN LECTURE SERIES EP#07: JUST WORKING? Why the dignity of work is at the heart of civic renewal and the politics of the common good. With Jon Cruddas

Mar 04 2024 52 mins  
Jon Cruddas explores why decent work must be the cornerstone of a politics of the common good and why work is fundamentally a spiritual activity through which people collaborate with God for the redemption of humanity.Jon Cruddas is the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham and author of The Dignity of Labour. Jon is an Honorary Professor at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtue

LINCOLN LECTURE SERIES EP#06: JUST WORKING? Catholic Social Thought and the Dignity of Work. With Maurice Glasman

Mar 03 2024 61 mins  
Maurice Glasman addresses the nature of work and how it has changed, how corporations have gained power while workers have lost out. He explores how the framework of Catholic social thought can guide us towards a more just and stable settlement.Lord Glasman is an English political theorist, Labour life peer and Professor of Politics at St Mary’s University. He is author of Blue L

LINCOLN LECTURE SERIES EP#05: JUST ECONOMY? Catholic Social Thought, Mutualism and Roads Not Yet Taken. With Adrian Pabst

Mar 03 2024 68 mins  
Adrian Pabst argues that Catholic Social Thought is the most coherent body of ideas for social renewal, a gift to the world. In practical, grounded terms, he sets out how this tradition not only conceptualises a more just economy anchored in the dignity of the person and of work, but also reconciles the estranged interests of capital and labour, finance and production.Adrian Pabst

LINCOLN LECTURE SERIES EP#04: JUST CHURCH? How does Catholic Social Teaching fit into the mission of the Church of England? With Malcolm Brown

Mar 02 2024 61 mins  
Addressing the mission of the Church of England in light of Catholic Social Teaching, Malcolm Brown explores the Anglican legacy for the common good and asks how it might become a church for England.Malcolm Brown is the Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the Church of England, and Visiting Professor in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Winchester. He is au

LINCOLN LECTURE SERIES EP#03: JUST BEING? On the dignity and divine calling of the human person. With Edward Hadas

Mar 01 2024 57 mins  
Looking through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching and its focus on human flourishing, Edward Hadas examines the effects of modernity on the human being, and asks whether, in the modern world, we can truly be who we were created to be.Edward Hadas is a Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and a freelance journalist. An expert in Catholic Social Teaching, he teaches and lectures in