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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

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. When I first came into contact with the Woolf Institute, the teamwere squatting in a dusty nest of rooms at Wesley House, one ofseveral locations they occupied in the nomad years of theInstitute’s infancy. I had a flashback to

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. On Wednesday 3rdMay I was delighted to chair apanel at the Woolf Institute exploring the role ofwomen in positions of religious authority as part of a. celebration of the 60th birthday of the Institute’sfounder, Ed Kessler.

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. On April 11 this year, US President Joe Bidentravelled to Belfast, Northern Ireland to mark the1998 signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.It was a momentous landmark in the history of thatconflict-ridden country. Anyone

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Pentecostalism is the world's fastest growingChristian denomination. The Pentecostal movementclaims hundreds of millions of followers and enjoyspopularity globally, but especially in the majorityworld. Yet many of the world's

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

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

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

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

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