Dr Elaine Storkey
Roy Jenkins meets theologian, writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner Dr Elaine Storkey, who lead aid and development agency Tearfund for 16 years.
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听Roy Jenkins guest on All Things Considered this week is Dr Elaine Storkey, theologian, writer, broadcaster, feminist campaigner - and much more beside.
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She spent 16 years as president of the aid and development agency Tearfund, and her encounters in many different countries have fired her commitment to justice for the most vulnerable.
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She is concerned especially to raise awareness of the many ways in which women around the world are subjected to violence; and she has pointed to the failures of religious communities to address it.听
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Elaine Storkey is always eager to relate her faith to the big issues of the day, and whether it鈥檚 to a small group of high-powered opinion-formers, or an audience of thousands at a Christian festival, she does so with warmth and passion. She writes on a wide range of issues, and for six years was executive director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.
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She has held university posts in Oxford, Stirling, London and the United States, as well as with the Open University, but she graduated from Aberystwyth and is now a Fellow of that university.
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- Sun 18 Sep 2016 09:03成人快手 Radio Wales
- Fri 23 Sep 2016 00:30成人快手 Radio Wales
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