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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Lookng forward to giving the Gore Public Theology lecture on child poverty at Birmingham Cathedral on 25 September. I will be drawing on my forthcoming Life on the Breadline book in my reflections [SCM, December 2025]. Click below to book free ticket. birminghamcathedral.com/event/gore-l...

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Gore Lecture with Dr Chris Shannahan

Our fifth annual Gore Lecture in Public Theology will be presented by Dr Chris Shannahan from Coventry University on Child Poverty. Everyone is welcome to join this FREE event.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I just started a project on AI + religion. This piece from the Coventry University website gives a flavour...One of my main questions relates to power, inclusion and social justice: Is AI a tool for oppression or liberation? Let's see what UK faith leaders think. www.coventry.ac.uk/research/abo...

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Coventry University researchers to investigate the impact of AI on religion and how faiths are responding

Coventry University researchers are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing religious beliefs, practices and responsibilities - and whether it is being embraced or resisted by faith ...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The Children's Commissioner has joined calls for the government to scrap two-child benefit cap saying some children in England are living in an "almost-Dickensian level of poverty” In new report some young people describe living with rat infestations, without reliable running water & mouldy food

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SALIENT-Hub @salient-hub.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Cultural Resilience, Religious Faith, and the intersection of Generative and Agentic Artificial Intelligence - Coventry University 🙏🤖This project explores how generative AI is reshaping religious beliefs, practices, and cultural resilience. @chrisshannahan.bsky.social

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Excited to start a new SALIENT: Building a Secure & Resilient World funded project with my Centre for Peace & Security colleague Adam Fenton exploring the impact that AI has on the role of faith groups in public sphere & in particular in fostering cultural resilience within marginalised communities.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Senior faith leaders urge Starmer to tone down migration rhetoric

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Off to Birmingham Cathedral this morning to speak at an important conference on how the Church can respond to the crisis of child poverty in the UK.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'm excited about our Life on the Breadline collaboration with Canon Andy Delmege and Birmingham Cathedral - Join us on 8th May for a tragically timely conference on the child poverty crisis in Birmingham. Email Birmingham Catedral for more details and to register.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Shame on you @RachelReevesMP - A betrayal of that Labour should stand for. Punish the poor so you don't have to tak the rich. Pepole will not forget. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Record 4.5m children living in poverty, UK data shows

Government urged to scrap two-child benefit cap after chancellor announces welfare cuts in spring statement

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Deeply worrying - Echoes of 2010 Cameron and Osborne - Keir Starmer paving the way for a Labour created Age of Austerity even though he will dress it up in his 'tough choices' all the fault of the Tories excuses - Shameful abandonment of people and principles. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Benefit system unfair and indefensible, says PM

Some Labour MPs urge ministers to tackle the

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In the new Trump empire it seems perfectly logical for the riches man on earth to dismantle the organisation that feeds the poorest people on earth. When did wrong become right?

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Let’s be very clear Trump is now calling for the ethnic cleansing of 2 million Palestinian people. This is not only a war crime, it is deeply immoral and must be called out. Any UK politician who fails to oppose this is bowing down to an authoritarian bully.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

We know even thoough Trump is an autocratic bullying, masogynistic white supremacist he is about to become US President...And yet this is not the end because whilst long "the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice." Believe! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The world braces for Trump, hoping for the best, unprepared for the worst

His pick for secretary of state may have given measured assessment of world affairs, but ‘crazy’ Trump will call the shots

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The unvarnished truth about far-right amoral gaslighter Elon Musk. youtu.be/diHcpZvBjT0?...

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Ian Hislop’s unfiltered take on Elon Musk | LBC

YouTube video by LBC

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Elon Musk is a clear and present danger to social cohesion in the UK. Let's mot be fooled by his claim to be defending 'free speech'. It's far right free speech he's promoting.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Donald Trump's attempt to throw out his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case has been denied. He will be the first convicted criminal to enter the White House when he takes power again on 20 January. news.sky.com/story/judge-...

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Judge denies Trump immunity bid over hush money conviction

Mr Trump's lawyers have raised other grounds for dismissal, such as claims of juror misconduct, so the conviction could yet be quashed. If it stands, sentencing might not happen until Trump's second t...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

BREAKING: The Scottish government has announced the two-child benefit limit - blamed for trapping children in poverty “will be scrapped" Finance Secretary Shona Robison said eradicating child poverty was a "top priority"👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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DWP two-child benefit limit to be axed in Scotland as PM under huge pressure

Scotland has vowed to axe the 'pernicious' two-child benefit limit in a move that will pile massive pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to cut the Tory benefit rule

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It was really great to work alongside Kate Gray as she developed her PhD thesis exploring what a contextual theology of lberation might look like in breadline Britain. Enjoying a drink here with Kate and Jessica Northey celebrating after Kate's Viva!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

BREAKING: Major winter fuel payment update in Scotland The Scottish government has announced every OAP north of the border will receive a winter heating payment worth at least £100 in 2025 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Major winter fuel payment update as Keir Starmer under pressure

The Prime Minister is under pressure after the Scottish government announced every OAP north of the border would receive a winter heating payment worth at least £100 in 2025

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It's 2024. The UK is one of the richest nations on earth and we are invited to celebrate a King opening food banks - Is this the kind of society we are now in breadline Britain? We need systemic change, not charity. Only then can structural injustice be transformed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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King Charles champions food poverty project on working 76th birthday

The King is spending his 76th birthday opening new hubs to redistribute food which would otherwise be thrown away.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This is not the ideologically inspired austerity of the Tories beginning with Osborne and Cameron but this represents a moral failure by Starmer's new Labour government and the pain and poverty will be just as deep. 'Tough choices'? Yes but this is not the answer. news.sky.com/story/mps-to...

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MPs to review pensioner poverty after winter fuel payment cut

Sir Keir Starmer remained insistent the cut needed to happen to help fund the £22bn black hole he says was left by the Conservative government.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The debilitating damage of structural injustice in the UK in 2024 - First 6 months of this year Trussel Trust provided 1.42 million food parcels. Up 69% on 5 years ago.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A lot of my work as an activist theologian revolves around the work I began in my ESRC Life on the Breadline project - I'm currently finishing work on a monograph arising from Breadline and hoping to build on this in a new project in the not too distant future. breadlineresearch.coventry.ac.uk

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Home - Life on the Breadline

Life on the Breadline is a three year multi-disciplinary ESRC-funded research project analysing the nature, scope and impact of Christian engagement with urban poverty in the UK in the context of aust...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

🚨Millions of people in this country are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks. It’s barely getting a mention. I’m joining forces with @bigissue.bsky.social in calling for a POVERTY ZERO LAW - a statutory duty for every gov’t to set POVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS youtu.be/uAr58YqXW7I?...

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🚨Millions of people are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks - It’s barely mentioned

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Whilst the government relaxes rules on banker’s bonuses and clamps down on support for struggling families, thousands of children are going hungry at school. Our political system is rigged in favour of the wealthy few. We need to build an alternative.

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Milton Keynes children 'pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes'

More than one in three children in Milton Keynes are living in poverty, an organisation says.

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Chris Shannahan @chrisshannahan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Making the move from X. Hoping to share ideas about developing a theology of liberation in breadline Britain.

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