Chris Shannahan
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.
- 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...
- 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! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- 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
- 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
- How to entrench multi generational poverty. www.theguardian.com/society/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.
- 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...
- Challenging reflections from Joint Public Issues Team's Paul Morrison as Labour kickstarts its own austerity journey. jpit.uk/repeatedly-t...
- 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. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- 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? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- 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. www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/t...
- 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...
- The unvarnished truth about far-right amoral gaslighter Elon Musk. youtu.be/diHcpZvBjT0?...
- 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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- 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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- 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...
- Thoughts? www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
- 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...
- 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.
- Nourishing food for all children is a basic human right - Something government has the responsiblity to provide, so why is it so controversial? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- 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
- Reposted by Chris Shannahan🚨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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