We are keen to contribute to scholarship and think tank work focused on the relationship between enterprise and non secular perspectives. In particular, how questions of sacredness, beauty, tradition and place affect our natural, economic, and civil arenas.

We have spent 25+ years in various private working groups exploring the relationship between theological questions and the nature of stewardship, leadership and enterprise.

Our experience across that period has been that senior individuals within secular organisations have been asking to be involved in these kinds of spaces, to access this kind of thinking, at an ever increasing rate. But that the collective cultural will within their institutions has lagged slower behind, creating a gap.

We have been here before on other issues: that paradox creates a moment. It should be seized.

Some long term examples:

  • European business leaders exploring how a less hyper-secular approach to leadership would improve our economic and social health

  • English landowners and farmers exploring the relationship between faith and land ownership

  • Global politicians and diplomats from across the political, religious and national spectrum gathering over meals to discuss these topics and build friendship and common ground.

    This takes the form of intimate spaces and large gatherings, drawing people from all across the world.

We believe we are the end of a cycle. That high modernity - perhaps even the long arc of the Enlightenment itself - is at the end of its journey. That a flat, secular physicalism has been attempted, found wanting and people are now in search of a replacement.

As such, some of the most important questions of our time sit way beyond the usual organisational themes, which are either far too in the weeds or cannot see the wood for the trees.

Our Cornish Farm is a place to wrestle with these questions. But we want to be more than a site to gather for discussion: we want to contribute to the thinking.

We are keen to work alongside academics, researchers and thinkers who share these sentiments:

  • Joint research and publication

  • Symposia and seminars

  • Fellowships and residencies

  • Fellowships and residencies

  • Commissioned and public work

Examples of things we think about

  • The role of meaning, faith and moral formation in a flourishing economy, and the case that secular business now faces a crisis of purpose.

  • How faith-centred approaches to land can renew rural communities, nature and enterprise.

  • Why where and how we build and live shapes who we become.

  • How a more mystical, less modern way of interpreting the world can help us navigate forward.

  • What it takes to lead a life of high responsibility and calling.