If you didn't get the chance to attend the Jazz Spiritualities series this term, we're delighted to share the full YouTube playlist. Whether you're revisiting a favourite session or discovering the series for the first time, we hope these inspire fresh reflection. 🎷 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Jazz Spiritualities: The Natural Noise of Good - YouTube

'Jazz Spiritualities: The Natural Noise of Good' is a set of lectures and conversations exploring the ways in which jazz as a musical form has both inspired,...

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Congratulations to Senior Research Fellow Prof Kristin Aune and Research Fellow and Regent's alumnus Paul Weller (1974, Theology), who have co-authored a new journal article for the Journal of Muslims in Europe. Read the article here 🔗 brill.com/view/journal...

We are delighted to announce that one of our SCR Members, Forensic Criminologist & Minister, Rev'd John Deane-O'Keeffe, has recently been ordained into the Reformed Episcopal Church (Anglican).

📣 TOMORROW: Online launch for a special issue of Practical Theology with papers arising from the 2025 Congregational Studies symposium, organised by the Centre for Baptist Studies and Wescott House! All are warmly welcome! Register to get the Zoom link: www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/event/congre...

Pictures from Dr Tim Middleton's book launch for 'Witnessing a Wounded World' at Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities earlier this week! 📸 A really interesting discussion exploring theology’s relationship with science, nature, and the environment 🌿 #Ecotheology #BookLaunch #Oxford #OxfordEvents

Join us this Friday, 5 June at 12.30pm for the next CBS event: an online launch of Martin Hobgen's important new book. The launch will feature a panel discussion with the author and responses from invited speakers.

Join us at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities this Thursday 4 June, for a conversation on theology, science, and the environment where Dr Tim Middleton will celebrate the second launch of his recent book, Witnessing a Wounded World 💬

Huge congratulations to Dr Katrin Wilhelm, Regent's Tutorial Fellow in Geography, who was recently awarded a Certificate of Recognition for her brilliant work on the Lab-In-Your-Pocket project and her contributions to supporting young people's mental health 👏

What happens when preaching refuses to soothe and instead dares to tell the truth? 💭 Prof Anthony Reddie recently featured on the Preaching Well podcast for a conversation on prophetic preaching, liberation theology, intercultural ministry and the role of the Church in challenging injustice.

Congratulations to Dr Tim Middleton, Tutorial Fellow in Theology at Regent’s, who is part of the team behind The Elisha Project, a new national initiative supported by the @eclasproject.bsky.social programme at Durham University.

What happens when we bring nature into one of the most controlled spaces in healthcare? Proud to share this important work by Dr Wilhelm and collaborators at the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust 🌿 Read more: www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/dr-wilhelm-n...

Congratulations to Dr Dominic Burbidge, Lecturer in Politics at Regent's, on both his recent publication and a forthcoming article! 🎉 📘 Social Network Analysis from the Perspective of African Political Philosophy Review of Social Economy, Vol. 84, (2025), No. 1, pp. 103–128

Social network analysis from the perspective of African political philosophy

Social network analysis tracks the reach of human networks to understand how interpersonal interactions and relationships influence behavioural outcomes. There is great scope for research on sub-Sa...

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📢 Vacancy at Regent’s Park College, Oxford! 5-year career development fellowship in the Study of Love in Religion (research + teaching, interfaith focus), starts Sept 2027. 🗓 Apply by 26 May 2026 🔗 www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/about-regent... #AcademicJobs #Theology #Oxford

We're pleased to share a new research project led by Prof Kristin Aune at Regent's - New Christian Masculinities: Searching for Meaning and Security in a Polarised World. The project explores how young men are engaging with Christianity today, and why. Read more: www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/wp-admin/upl...

Regent's Park College SCR Member and Departmental Tutor, John Deane-O'Keeffe (John D.), was recently interviewed by Ireland's National Broadcaster RTE about his journey in criminology and faith. You can listen to here 🔗 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Congratulations and well done, John! 👏

📍 This week (17-18 March): The Centre for Law and Religion at Regent's is hosting an international conference on 'Promoting Pluralism Through Religious Cultural Heritage Preservation', bringing together scholars, practitioners & policymakers. #LawAndReligion #AcademicConferences #Oxford

📚 New research from Regent’s Park College Paul Weller, Regent’s Research Fellow in Religion and Society, has recently published two new open-access articles exploring religion, society, and interfaith relations.

Regent’s doctoral researcher Illia Chernohorenko recently addressed UK parliamentarians at Westminster on justice and reparations for survivors of conflict-related violence. Read more: rpc.ox.ac.uk/illia-chernohorenko-speaks-at-westminster/ #Oxford #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #JusticeReform

📢 The Whitley Lecture 2026 — today at 4pm Revd Dr Paulus de Jong (Dutch Baptist Seminary) presents: 'Reconciliation – From Estrangement to Embrace: Scriptural Storylines and the Gospel’s Vision of Reconciliation.' 📍 Regent’s Park College 🎟 Free | No registration required #Theology #BaptistStudies

We're proud to see Lisa Adjei, a current Regent's ministerial student, featured in this Guardian article on antiracism in the Church of England. Lisa leads the Diocese of London's Racial Justice Priority, supporting clergy to embed racial justice and inclusion into preaching and parish life.

Anglican clergy in London to be asked to promote antiracism in sermons

Exclusive: Thousands of pounds unlocked to fund more diversity initiatives in diocese of capital

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Regent's Supernumerary Research Fellow Martin Whittingham recently published an open-access article engaging with the work of the late Shabbir Akhtar - a prominent philosopher, theologian and public intellectual known for his influential writing on Islam, secularism and modernity. #RegentsResearch

This May 📘 Regent’s own Prof Anthony Reddie is co-editor of a new anthology, 'Bonhoeffer and the Voice of the Other.' The book has its roots in a 2023 Oxford Centre for Religion & Culture seminar organised by Anthony Reddie and brings Bonhoeffer into conversation with voices often left unheard.

Bonhoeffer and the Voice of the Other

This wide-ranging book examines Bonhoeffer through the prism of problems facing the modern world.Our digital and globalised era has facilitated multiple and ins…

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Regent’s Research Fellow Dr Mátyás Bódi and Principal Sir Malcolm Evans were at the House of Lords for the launch of new RE resources based on Regent’s research, supporting pupils to learn about freedom of religion and belief in the UK. Read more 🔗 www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/house-of-lor...

Before Christmas, Prof Anthony Reddie and the Centre for Black Theology, Oxford hosted an online seminar to celebrate the publication of 'Heavy Yoke' by Selina Stone, 'Black British and De-churched' by E. P. Lewis, and 'Imag(in)ing Jesus in the Universal or Particular' by Victoria Olaide Omotoso.

We'd like to wish a huge congratulations to Deputy Jayne Ozanne, Research Fellow at Regent's and Consultant for the GIC+ Project, on being made an OBE in the New Year Honours 2026.

#ThrowbackThursday to snow-dusted days at Regent's in November 2024 ❄ #RegentsParkCollege #OxfordSnow

Tonight, join Prof. Anthony Reddie and the Centre for Black Theology for a powerful online seminar celebrating Black women theologians shaping the landscape of theology in Britain.

Thanks also to the Angus Library and Archive @regentsox.bsky.social for welcoming us to visit its first edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (and other works of British women’s political writing): so inspiring!

📣 Coming up next Tuesday 18 November at 5:15pm - join us for a special celebration marking the publication of Prof Paul Fiddes' latest book, 'Romans through the Centuries.'