Chris Shannahan
@chrisshannahan.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Political Theology at Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University. Theology, Poverty, Structural Injustice, Faith-based Political Activism. Looking for an austerity age theology of liberation. Long suffering Everton fan.
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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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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
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.
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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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August 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
birminghamcathedral.com/event/gore-l...
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...
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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July 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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...
In 2025! Labour letting down the most vulnerable!
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Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’
Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit cap
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July 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In 2025! Labour letting down the most vulnerable!
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Reposted by Chris Shannahan
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
In new report some young people describe living with rat infestations, without reliable running water & mouldy food
July 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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
In new report some young people describe living with rat infestations, without reliable running water & mouldy food
Reposted by Chris Shannahan
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
🙏🤖This project explores how generative AI is reshaping religious beliefs, practices, and cultural resilience.
@chrisshannahan.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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
🙏🤖This project explores how generative AI is reshaping religious beliefs, practices, and cultural resilience.
@chrisshannahan.bsky.social
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.
June 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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.
Senior faith leaders urge Starmer to tone down migration rhetoric
May 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Senior faith leaders urge Starmer to tone down migration rhetoric
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.
May 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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.
Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal
April 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal
How to entrench multi generational poverty.
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Hundred-year wait for family-size social housing in parts of England, study finds
Charities condemn ‘national scandal’ and call for pledge to build 90,000 social homes a year to meet demand
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April 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How to entrench multi generational poverty.
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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.
March 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
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.
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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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March 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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Challenging reflections from Joint Public Issues Team's Paul Morrison as Labour kickstarts its own austerity journey.
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Repeatedly taking the easy choice on welfare – Joint Public Issues Team
JPIT’s Paul Morrison responds to potential disability benefit cuts. In the November 2024 budget the Chancellor decided to keep the last government’s £3bn of disability benefit cuts which were pencille...
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March 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Challenging reflections from Joint Public Issues Team's Paul Morrison as Labour kickstarts its own austerity journey.
jpit.uk/repeatedly-t...
jpit.uk/repeatedly-t...
Good idea? Bad idea? A way to address food insecurity or to embed dependency? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tesco to trial giving expiring food away to shoppers
Giving away food will be trialled in some Express stores in an effort to cut waste.
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March 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Good idea? Bad idea? A way to address food insecurity or to embed dependency? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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.
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Benefit system unfair and indefensible, says PM
Some Labour MPs urge ministers to tackle the
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March 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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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?
February 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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?
Moving forward or sweeping the trauma of Grenfell Tower and housing injustice under the rug?
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Families concerned as Grenfell Tower to be dismantled
A campaign group asks how many bereaved people and survivors were consulted over the decision.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Moving forward or sweeping the trauma of Grenfell Tower and housing injustice under the rug?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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.
February 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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.
Google bows down to the new dictator in town.
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Google Maps will change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America | CNN Business
Google is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps.
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January 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Google bows down to the new dictator in town.
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