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Ben Ryan on BBC 5 Live discussing Christianity and Mental Health

Ben Ryan on BBC 5 Live discussing Christianity and Mental Health

Ben Ryan appears on BBC 5 Live to discuss exorcisms and the work Theos has done on Mental Health.

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BBC 5 Live looks at the issue of exorcisms, Ben Ryan features to discuss the topic and Theos’s report on Christianity and Mental Health.

Listen here from 10.00, available until the 23rd of June 2018.

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Ben Ryan

Ben Ryan is Home Affairs Adviser at Church of England. He was Head of Research at Theos until late 2019. He is the editor of Fortress Britain? Ethical Approaches to Immigration Policy for a Post–Brexit Britain (JKP 2018) and the author of Theos reports on chaplaincy, the EU, the Catholic charity sector, mental health and ecumenism.

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