J&V Research Network and EXCEPT co-hosted seminar- Dr Al McFadyen, MBE- Loving the Neighbourhood

Following the riots across the UK in the summer of 2024, Al reflects on options for constructive and critical theological engagement.

Al’s MBE is for services to policing and the community. He is theologian at the University of Leeds who works part-time as a police officer (unpaid). Recent publications: ‘Theology, Torture, Terror, Policing: How not to have enemies or to overcome evil’ in Overcoming Evil with Good: Interdisciplinary Reflections from Theology, Social Psychology, and the Military, ed. Dahlgrün, et al (Wissen-schaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2022) ‘Loving the Neighbourhood; Loving Enemies: Towards a Theology for (and from) Policing’ in Criminology and Public Theology, ed. Millie (Bristol University Press, 2021) ‘I Breathe him in with every breath I take’: Framing Domestic Victimisation as Trauma and Coercive Control in Feminist Trauma Theologies’ in Feminist Trauma Theologies, ed. O'Donnell K &Cross K (SCM Press, 2020)