In this episode we discuss with Jim Walters: The story of the London School of Economics Faith Centre; How it came to be, and what it's trying to accomplish by discussing plural spaces, climate change and interfaith relations, women of faith and peacemaking; the need for better interface between theology and the social sciences to understand international relations and other political sciences; and finding ways of changing ways to engaging with religion in academia – often changed by students’ interests and concerns.

Jim is the founding director of the LSE Faith Centre and its Religion and Global Society Research Unit. He leads the team in the centre’s mission to promote religious literacy and interfaith leadership through student programmes and global engagement, along with research into the role of religion in world affairs.

He is a Senior Lecturer in Practice in the Department of International Relations and an affiliated faculty member at the Department for International Development. He has published a number of books including Baudrillard and Theology (2012), Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations (2018), A Christian Theology of Chaplaincy (2018), Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions (2018) and Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict (2019).