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17 Jul 2024: Are we reaching a tipping point in our attitudes towards racial inequality? When George Floyd’s brutal killing was captured on video, Black Lives Matter protests quickly spread across the world. In England, the statue of the 17th century slave

17 Jul 2024: Modern slavery is going on all around us. Brothels, nail bars, car wash outlets and some wealthy households all need victims who they can exploit, and people traffickers happily supply them.

16 Jul 2024: Both Islam and Christianity have a long history of trying to convert others; Judaism less so. Both Islam and Christianity have a long history of trying to convert others. Judaism less so. This activity has been the cause of conflict and violence in

17 Jul 2024: Synagogue of Brussels) and Le Musée Juif de Belgique (the Jewish Museum), where just over a year ago, a gunman shot and killed four people.

16 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

17 Jul 2024: Many people look to their family trees for exciting and surprising discoveries about their ancestors, or to clear up long-standing questions about family history.

17 Jul 2024: Woolf Institute staff and students acknowledge and thank our Friends.

17 Jul 2024: What does it mean to be free? When the Berlin Wall came down in 1991, the writer Alan Bennet quipped mordantly about ‘the freedom to shop’. Of course there was much more to it than that. Esther-Miriam Wagner and Alexander Massmann join Ed

17 Jul 2024: Could space be where the next arms race plays out? The night sky has been a source of wonder for humanity. We may still look at the stars with awe but we also think of space as a potential military asset. And we are filling it with junk. Gerry

17 Jul 2024: So why is it that so many people, in America and elsewhere, find it so difficult to accept the idea of evolution?

16 Jul 2024: Even with just family, there are over twenty people, and a dining table will not suffice. ... In Gaza, people fast past Iftar because they have no food or water.

16 Jul 2024: Blog. 9th Jun 2024. Blog. 12th May 2024. Blog. 5th May 2024. Blog. 4th Apr 2024. God is dead, yet a divine shadow still looms. What makes religious ritual so irresistible? If I am right - must you be wrong? Do we understand ourselves better by

16 Jul 2024: He, and other speakers, explored the impact of training, to understand the approaches and values that can help us as people in communities and as a society to reflect more deeply ... on the meaning of life and death for different people and communities.

17 Jul 2024: peoples’ attitudes towards diversity, to see what was actually going on.

16 Jul 2024: Still, I was joining an organisation with a passion for bringing people together, something to which I could finally relate. ... Yet paradoxically 'faith' has everything to do with it. Faith is clearly an integral part of peoples lives at the Institute,

16 Jul 2024: Roughly 55 people were split up into five different groups and were tasked with thinking through the role of religion and belief in a modern British society, including their responses to ... Each table represented vibrant religious diversity – people

16 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

17 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

17 Jul 2024: Is there a science of forgiveness? "Without forgiveness there is no future." So said the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. But do we have it in us to forgive the most egregious sins? Some think that is in God's realm. Kitty O'Lone and

16 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

16 Jul 2024: The central idea around which I have been working in my engagement with Muslim-Jewish relations is to make people understand each other's perspective and work together on issues that

17 Jul 2024: Sometimes even atheists are tempted to believe. Sometimes even atheists are tempted to believe. The Woolf Institute podcast 'An A-Z of Believing' was published by The Independent as a weekly short essay. Read G for GodWoolf Institute. Madingley

16 Jul 2024: pay cosmic sums to the Polish government; in other words, taking the 'living space' of the British people". ... In Poland and the UK, people and parties seem to further their political causes and careers by exploiting the human weakness for scapegoating

17 Jul 2024: How does religious practice carry on when people are so far apart?

16 Jul 2024: 'Wisdom cries...'

17 Jul 2024: There’s a disturbing amount of antisemitic material on social media, and hate postings in general are rife. Following an increase in antisemitic postings on social media, the Antisemitism Policy Trust looked into it and asked the Woolf Institute

17 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

17 Jul 2024: Magic Thinking

17 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

16 Jul 2024: How do people from different faiths have constructive conversation? Join Ed as he explains a new letter each week.

16 Jul 2024: In doing so, Professor Knobler demonstrated that people from the East often manipulated Western peoples' expectations of them rather than being subjects of Western idealisations of Eastern identity. ... documents can lead the researcher to make incorrect

16 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

17 Jul 2024: Reconciliation

17 Jul 2024: She wrote to Dickens in 1860 explaining that Jews regarded his portrayal of Fagin as 'a great wrong' to their people. ... get insight into the relationship between Dickens and Mrs Davis – he the author of repute, she attempting to redeem him in the

17 Jul 2024: do it for every web page requested measuring how many people are using services so they can be made easier to use analysing anonymous data to help us understand how people

17 Jul 2024: Can we really forgive and forget? What benefits are there to forgiving others? Forgiving others is a serious matter but can it come from nowhere? Or is an apology needed first from the perpetrator of the misdeed in question? And when does an apology

17 Jul 2024: A notorious modern example is Serbo-Croatian, where the religious separation between peoples is buttressed by different use of alphabets for what is essentially the same language: Cyrillic script by Serbian ... Seeing how people navigated linguistic

16 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

16 Jul 2024: It would be a grave mistake to think that fundamentalists, the strictly observant, are focused solely on the afterlife or reaching for perfection. It would be a grave mistake to think that fundamentalists, the strictly observant, are focused solely

16 Jul 2024: Thus, Kessler concluded, if Europeans seek to understand world affairs, they must pay attention to how religious beliefs continue to influence how people think about themselves, group belonging, and the production

16 Jul 2024: How do people from different faiths have constructive conversation? Join Ed as he explains a new letter each week.

17 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

16 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

17 Jul 2024: Fortress Europe

17 Jul 2024: What is it that makes us feel lonely? Most of us feel lonely some of the time, but some of us feel lonely most of the time. To be alone, however, is not to be lonely, and sometimes being part of a crowd can feel very lonely indeed. Kitty O’Lone

16 Jul 2024: It is no coincidence that the Nazis likened Jewish people to rats and Rwandan Tutsis were called cockroaches.

16 Jul 2024: Over 30 people came together to share and learn, eat and drink, discuss and debate with a wide range of speakers, guests and with one another. ... People came to know how places of worship were used on a day to day basis; they witnessed prayers and spoke

16 Jul 2024: While we each have desks in the office, our real desks are among people outside of the building - listening to others and prompting difficult discussions about religion and belief that ultimately ... But the work of the Institute is so important and the

16 Jul 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

17 Jul 2024: Traders are also placed in communication networks more far-reaching than those of other people – in other words, they are much more exposed to other dialects and languages which influence the