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Reclaiming Journalism’s Prophetic Voice

30th August 2024 By jtmadmin

In a time when trust in media is waning, can journalism rediscover its Christian roots and become a beacon for truth and justice? Jenny Taylor reveals how journalism lost its way, how this can happen, and why it matters for God’s mission. ... Read Full Article

To save our cities we must return to the springs of our spiritual past

9th August 2024 By Jenny James Taylor

Thanks to a virtual Pilgrimage, I’ve become attentive to the physical well-springs of hope that are everywhere in our land. ... Read Full Article

Saving Journalism

9th July 2024 By jtmadmin

The Rise, Demise and Survival of the News by DR JENNY TAYLOR Could the titanic achievements of journalism provide clues for a flourishing future? Why is society’s watchdog, the press, with its long and often honourable pedigree, going feral? Failing to bark at misrepresentation and fraud, while snarling at truth? Why does journalism have the ... Read Full Article

“The rise of the Fourth Estate”: a story that remains untold

25th January 2023 By Jenny James Taylor

Secularization has obscured the full story of the rise of journalism. ... Read Full Article

The meaning of George Steiner’s Real Presences

16th November 2021 By Jenny James Taylor

George Steiner died last year. His masterpiece Real Presences is rarely discussed today. Dr Jenny Taylor believes its courageous attempt to remake the covenant between language and reality is key to our cultural recovery. ... Read Full Article

Creation, providence and journalism

8th February 2021 By Jenny James Taylor

Could theology help restore journalism's ethics? A paper by Dr Jenny Taylor given at the KLICE international webinar on The Doctrine of Creation, 24 November 2020. ... Read Full Article

KLICE Interview with Jenny Taylor

9th September 2019 By jtmadmin

KLICE Director Rev. Dr Craig Bartholomew interviews Dr Jenny Taylor as she takes up her Fellowship in Media, Communication and Journalism. ... Read Full Article

Media Research Fellow at Kirby Laing Institute in Cambridge

1st August 2018 By Jenny James Taylor

Helping to undo the eclipse of ethics that is central to the crisis of the West. ... Read Full Article

Consultancy with Stamens

9th October 2017 By Jenny James Taylor

Stamens is a start-up helping keep girls in school in Africa through the strategic provision of sanitary towels. In July this year I was asked to help this HMRC-registered charity position itself for the future. ... Read Full Article

A Wild Constraint: The Case for Chastity

11th December 2008 By jtmadmin

'An elegantly written gem of a book.' 'Timely and provocative.' 'A refreshing invitation to detox.' ... Read Full Article

JENNY JAMES TAYLOR specialises in religious literacy and was appointed Research Fellow in Communication, Media and Journalism at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge in 2019. A Bloomsbury author and campaigner she pioneered religious literacy in journalism, founding Lapido Media in 2005 as a publicly subscribed online newspaper and publisher. Described by historian Tom Holland as 'groundbreaking', it helped to change the national secular discourse by providing resources for journalists needing to ‘get religion’ in an age of globalization. Widely travelled, Taylor has a doctorate in religion from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and has been published many times in academic journals and the mainstream and on-line media including the Guardian, the Times and, in translation, the European press. Her books include Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in ‘Secular’ Britain with Lesslie Newbigin and Lamin Sanneh (SPCK 1998 and Wipf&Stock 2005) and A Wild Constraint (Continuum 2008), an extended essay on contemporary sexuality. An Associate of the Community of St Mary the Virgin, she lives where she was born, in Suffolk.