The Bishop has appeared as a guest contributor to the LSE Faith & Leadership Programme. Speaking on the “Christian Imagination”, Bishop Richard also shared the insights he has gained as a Christian leader both within the Church and as one who has sought to foster interreligious cohesion in a multi-faith city.

He set out a Christian vision of the world as “a drama in which we are called to play our own unique role and where in company with others we are to build a transforming community with a role to play in the end-time.” He encouraged the students that, “It is our privilege to have been called at such a crucial time to work in a century of promise and peril… To be a Christian is not simply to believe something, to learn something but to be something and to experience something. In Christ there is a new creation.”

LSE Faith & Leadership was devised by LSE Chaplain the Revd Dr James Walters and launched last year by the LSE Faith Centre. It seeks to develop the leadership skills of students from different faiths and no faith, alongside their religious literacy. It is an extra-curricular certificate available to 25 students a year, generous funded by LSE alumnus David Beecken. Last year, the Prince of Wales presented certificates to the first cohort of students and Clarence House.