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Podcast: Fossil-fuel companies and climate change; the theology of GA Studdert Kennedy, aka “Woodbine Willie”

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29 June 2018

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On this week’s podcast, how can church investors step up pressure on corporate polluters to combat climate change? Ed Thornton talk to the Chief Investment Officer of Epworth Investment Management, Stephen Beer, who manages the investments of the Methodist Church.

And we hear about GA Studdert Kennedy, or Woodbine Willie, the most famous World War 1 Chaplain. A new critical edition of his book of theology from the trenches, The Hardest Part, has just been published by SCM Press. Its editors, Professor Thomas O’Loughlin and the Revd Dr Stuart Bell, talk about his significance and influence.

 

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