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6 Mar 2023: This week Professor Robert Tombs reflects on his own experiences of Lent when he wasyounger. Dear Woolf Friends,. Lent, which begins on Shrove Tuesday, 21 February,is a time for the recollection of important matters oflife and death in preparation

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Ramadan is coming! Ramadan is a time of the year most which Muslims eagerly look forward to. Buthow can one look forward to a month of struggle and extreme hunger? Why doMuslims indeed anticipate Ramadan with such excitement? It

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. After a long and cold winter Purim is the first holidayto start off the spring season. This is the holidaywhere Jews remember the story of Esther, her uncleMordechai, King Achashverosh and the evil Haman. There are four

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Does interfaith work? This is a question with which the Woolf Institute, andprobably too few others, wrestle. Our Measures of Success project, completedlast year, explored the tricky topic of effectiveness and produced a

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. At the start of each new year, I find myself thinkingabout the past 12 months and wondering what I’ll bereflecting on next January when I look back at the. year just gone by. But with the Woolf Institute’s 25th. Anniversary

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. The Woolf Research Days are a valuableopportunity to present the work of some of our bestyoung researchers to audiences in brief TED-styletalks. These occasions also give our students andacademics an opportunity to practise the

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. A few years ago, the Woolf Institute conducted a research project on trustbetween religious communities. Through our work, we recognised that buildingtrust between people requires positive, but also meaningful,

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, One of the things that distinguishes the Woolf Institute from other researchinstitutes is our strive to translate all our research into public education.Academic work sometimes has the reputation of being conducted in an

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, This year we have the rare occasion that majorfestivals of the three Abrahamic faiths align:Easter, Passover and Ramadan. Such aconcurrence last happened in 1991 and is broughtabout by the different calendar systems

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. “Do you know anyone who would be interested inworking as my PA?”, came the question from EdKessler. I did, and the rest, as they say, is history. I am thinking back on my journey at the WoolfInstitute. I first started

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. If you visit East Germany, where I was born andraised, any time in late March and April, you will begreeted by bushes full of Easter eggs and nests ofeggs on the ground in many gardens and publicparks. Germany may be most famous

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Over the past few weeks the Woolf Institute, baskingas it has been in the hot summer sun, has been avibrant place, busy with events and the participants inthe various programmes we organise at this time ofyear. Two of these stand

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, In this special week of celebration of Easter,Passover and Ramadan it seems a good momentto remind ourselves of the foundation of theInstitute and to look forward to our 25th. anniversary next year. Back in 1998 when DrEdward

9 Nov 2022: In this issue we are starting an occasional series of personalreflections about the Institute, its mission and what it means todifferent people. Between now and our 25th anniversary nextyear we will include the voices of many current and pastmembers

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Few men have the privilege and good fortune to seetheir life’s vision take shape in front of them. Ed. Kessler, whose 60th birthday we were celebratingthis week, is that rare man. But fortune played only a small part. Ed

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Our light, airy and unusual building here at the Woolf has always lent itself to allsorts of events. In the five years since we moved in we have had concerts,comedy events, poetry recitals, dinners and drumming workshops all over

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, From research to social good, from Cambridge to the wider world, the WoolfInstitute is increasing the impact of its work this year, especially within politicaland policymaking circles. With this goal in mind, we have further

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Trust is the basis of all successful societies: law, economic activity, democracyas a whole, all are based on trusting strangers. Building trust between the religious communities of Britain is essential for thecreation of a

7 Nov 2022: Every year millions of Muslims travel to Makkah during the last month of the Islamic calendar, Dhul Hajj,to perform a pilgrimage known as Hajj. The pilgrimage lasts around five days, from the 8th to the 13th ofDhul Hajj (this year coinciding with 7th

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. When the news of the British conquest of MountEverest came through on the same day as QueenElizabeth’s coronation, it seemed too good to betrue. But the story of how that piece of news wasmanaged and gathered is less well known

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. I have been an intern at the Woolf Institute now fornearly a month, having returned following last year’ssummer school programme. I am an undergraduateat Brigham Young University in Salt Lake Citystudying Philosophy and

8 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, By the time you read this, we will have enjoyed theJubilee weekend and I hope you all have had awonderful time with family, neighbours andfriends. Seeing how during her long rule, her Majesty’sstoic determination and composure

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Spring, with its longer daylight hours, new buds on thetrees, and – with a little bit of luck – increasingly sunnyweather, is an annual reminder of new beginnings.Having weathered the hardest season of the year, wecan look to

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Ramadan has always embodied for me a delightfullydelicate paradox: it is at once a month ofrenunciation and fulfilment, of stillness and activity,of turning inwards in contemplation and reachingoutwards in charity. Ramadan

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Those who have spent nearly a full month fasting dailyfrom sunrise to sunset welcome the first day of Eid al-Fitr with open arms. Toward the end of Ramadan, youare physically exhausted but spiritually satiated. I cancertainly

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Good. Friday Agreement. Signed on the 10th April 1998during Holy Week it ended, for the most part, theviolence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. If youlook back 30 years ago, there

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Too often interfaith dialogue focuses on our sharedground and skirts away from the contentiousconversations about what divides us. Althoughrecognising our common beliefs and sharedstandards is always a good thing, if we don’t

2 Nov 2022: Best wishes,. David PerryWoolf Media Consultant & Producer. The Woolf Institute Annual Publication 2022/23 is now available to download.This publication is full of information about current research, teaching, publiceducation and

8 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Last month, I had the opportunity to return to Belfastfor the first time in nearly 10 years. Having done myMA there, it is a city I once knew well; our WoolfInstitute Forgiveness and Future-building projectoffered an opportunity

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. September always feels like a new start. The newacademic year for schools and universities bringsexcitement, potential, and a little nervousness; with afour-year-old starting school for the first time, I knowthat this is true

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. As an academic, I always feel incredibly elated whena student tells me my teaching has changed the waythey think about a problem or the profound effect ourdiscussions have had on their lives. We always liketo think the Woolf

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Most teenagers who found themselves growing up inthe drab suburbs of South East London in the mid-1960s felt the need for escape. Skiffle music andAmerican Rock and Roll were popular. But not withme. I was captivated by the

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Are we living through an age of crises? The language of crisis drives debate onclimate issues. The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a geopolitical crisisbetween Russia and the West. Crisis shapes our understanding of

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. We have great plans for the year ahead. The Institute’s work is making a realdifference in the world. The policy-driven work of our Director of Research DrJulian Hargreaves creates immediate and direct impact for the benefit

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, We are in the swing of Easter term in Cambridge,which runs from the second half of April to the middleof June. The term is always strangely dual in nature.On the one hand, it is the period of exams, with anxietypalpable in the

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. The end of my time in Cambridge and as a PhDScholar at the Woolf Institute is bitter-sweet. The fouryears I spent there count among the most impactfulin my growth as a scholar. Initially, my research topicwas about religion, and

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. November is Islamophobia Awareness Month. Nowin its tenth year, the campaign was originallyestablished by a group of British organisations led byMuslim-interest charity MEND (Muslim Engagementand Development). Despite receiving

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Powerful – Evocative – Moving. These are just someof the words used to describe the CambridgeTheological Federation’s Holocaust Memorial DayCommemoration. There is a long-held tradition withinthe CTF for the Woolf

1 Nov 2022: We continue our occasional series of memories from alumnias part of our 25th anniversary reflections. This week,Douglas Dalrymple looks back at what he describes as themost challenging and rewarding of his universityexperiences. Dear Woolf Friends,.

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. It seems our world is becoming an increasinglyunsettled place: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, globalrefugee numbers increasing to over 100 million,China is flexing its muscles, internally and externally,and peace between

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. To coin a phrase, love was in the air last week. StValentine’s Day: supermarket deals on prosecco androses; love bomb cards with their somewhatpredictable messages all over the place. But whatdoes our familiar commercial

16 Aug 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As I write this the night sky is blazing with fireworks fromthe May Ball at a neighbouring college. Cambridgecelebrates the end of the academic year in great style. Atthe Woolf we too have been celebrating, not withfireworks,

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Did staff at No.10 Downing Street break their own lockdown rules? As I writethis week’s introduction, it is the question dominating our news agenda. Butcast your minds back a few months. Fingers were pointing at other

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10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Religious affairs and world news are never apart for long. At the WoolfInstitute, our thinking, research and outputs are prompted and shaped bymedia stories of issues facing faith communities both in the UK and beyond. President

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, The Woolf Institute takes great pride in being aninterdisciplinary and collaborative institution. Whilemuch of our work focusses on the social sciences,theology and history, we also understand theimportance of the arts and

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Over the summer I had the joy of cycling with mydaughter across the solar system. We packed oursandwiches and got on our tandem bike, starting ourjourney at the sun. Mercury, Venus, and Earth wereall within a stone’s throw,

7 Nov 2022: The Woolf Institute Annual Publication 2022/23 is now available to download.This publication is full of information about current research, teaching, publiceducation and forthcoming events.

1 Nov 2022: Dr Andrew Reed of Brigham Young University, Utah, reflectson the impact of the Woolf summer school and remembershis own experience of first coming to Cambridge and thethen Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations 16 years ago. Dear Woolf Friends,. In

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. The Cambridge University system with faculties and departments, on the onehand, and colleges, on the other, is quite intricate and can be confusing evento those who have been here for quite some time. We too are often askedabout