text: The Revd Canon Professor Richard A Burridge, Dean of King's College London, delivered The Cathedrals Group 2015 Dearing Memorial Lecture in London on Thursday 12 November of that year. Entitled 'Church foundation, pluralist present, uncertain future? The role and calling of faith-based institutions in Higher Education today', the lecture posed a range of questions for CG institutions, including what contribution Christian foundations might make in terms of international relations and global politics in the light of growing recognition of the importance of religion in understanding our world in the Twenty-First Century.