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  • His central contention is that the sense of a society underpinned by mutual responsibility – the essence of Beveridge – has been in decline for decades certainly since his predecessor Robert Runcie tackled Mrs Thatcher about it 30 years ago and is now on the point of collapse.

    Welfare reform: Canterbury tales 2011

  • The applicants were believed to have included James Runcie, director of the Bath Literature Festival, and Alex Clark, until recently editor of Granta magazine.

    Edinburgh row spills into Facebook 2009

  • His central contention is that the sense of a society underpinned by mutual responsibility – the essence of Beveridge – has been in decline for decades certainly since his predecessor Robert Runcie tackled Mrs Thatcher about it 30 years ago and is now on the point of collapse.

    Welfare reform: Canterbury tales 2011

  • The applicants were believed to have included James Runcie, director of the Bath Literature Festival, and Alex Clark, until recently editor of Granta magazine.

    Edinburgh row spills into Facebook 2009

  • Moreton shows that while he could be indecisive, and wore his faith lightly, Runcie made his church, in the absence of an effective parliamentary challenge to the divisive policies of Margaret Thatcher, into the official opposition, an unprecedented role for an institution set up to buttress the status quo and one often labelled until that point "the Tory party at prayer".

    Is God Still an Englishman? by Cole Moreton Peter Stanford 2010

  • The popular stereotype of Runcie, not helped by his Spitting Image puppet, was as weak, vacillating and none-too-religious.

    Is God Still an Englishman? by Cole Moreton Peter Stanford 2010

  • History will judge Runcie kindly as a visionary and the precursor of the social democratic agenda of New Labour – particularly when it looks at his "Faith in the City" initiative, labelled Marxist by Thatcher's cabinet, but in reality an attempt to reach the lost generation condemned by their government to long-term unemployment.

    Is God Still an Englishman? by Cole Moreton Peter Stanford 2010

  • After the children have settled in, a series of breathing, diction, and voice warm-ups follow along with ensemble exercises which include theatre games that according to Runcie, help maintain a sense of trust within the group.

    NYC Theatre Artist Draws Inspiration From Teaching Inner-City Children 2009

  • The Lambeth MA in Theology by Thesis was inaugurated in 1990 by Archbishop Runcie at the request of the Lambeth Diploma committee in order to provide for the possibility of theological study at a more advanced level than the existing Diploma.

    Archbishop awards twenty first 'Lambeth MA in Theology' degree 2009

  • The pope and the cardinal asked Runcie to explain the reasoning that had led certain parts of the Anglican communion to ordain women to the ministerial priesthood.

    Theological Shock Therapy 2009

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