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Radio Archive
- 1 Jul
2008Jonathan Bartley debates with John Nicol on the Jeremy Vine show (Juliam Worricker standing in) saying any memorial to Bomber Command in the Second World War should incorporate the memory of the half - 16 May
2008Ekklesia director discusses the positive side to the economic slowdown, leaving behind consumerism, with a panel including the New Economics Foundation
Press Archive
- 19 Mar
2008What we're now seeing is the end of what was historically called Christendom in Europe," says Jonathan Bartley, "This has been the result of large-scale immigration, growth in democracy, a secularizin - 7 Mar
2008The church’s strategy is now clear – that if it is to have a hope of maintaining its privileges, it must try to get them extended to other religions too, says Jonathan Bartley
Web Archive
- 30 May
2008Inayat Bunglawala, Assistant Secretary-General at the Muslim Council of Britain, quotes Simon Barrow on Michael Nazir-Ali's comments. - 8 May
2008Ekklesia quoted on Israel’s 60th anniversary, concerning 140 Christian leaders who joined together in a unified call for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians
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Agenda - Religion and Society
Much of Ekklesia’s media work is in the area of the relationship between religion and society. In 2006, Ekklesia’s director Jonathan Bartley published the book Faith and Politics After Christendom, which looks at the changing relationship between religion and society.
- 4 Jul
2008Responding to the broader concern attached to a high court judgement issued on 2 July 2008 (see 'Faith Schools judgment fails to consider human rights angle'), Simon Barrow, co-director of the UK r
- 30 Jun
2008Responding to today's report 'Bad Faith' by Cristina Odone for the Centre for Policy Studies, Jonathan Bartley, director of the religious thinktank Ekklesia said:
- 27 Jun
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2008Commenting on the disagreement between the Charity Commission and the authors of the new report Moral, But No Compass on the church and welfare, the religion and society think tank Ekklesi
- 30 May
2008Inayat Bunglawala, Assistant Secretary-General at the Muslim Council of Britain, quotes Simon Barrow on Michael Nazir-Ali's comments. - 29 May
2008Responding to the latest remarks by Bishop Michael Nazir Ali about the decline of Christianity and moral values in Britain Simon Barrow, co-directo
- 14 May
2008The Christian think-tank Ekklesia has concurred with the findings of a new report from Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights which says that any child of ‘sufficient maturity, intelligen
- 9 May
2008"Arguing about the latest statistics misses the point," says Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia.
- 22 Apr
2008The religion and society think-tank Ekklesia has welcomed a new painting of St George, the patron saint of England, which portrays him as a man of compassion and challenges the myth of 'the crusade
- 20 Mar
2008Entertaining Guardian podcast presented by the Guardian's Riazat Butt, in which she introduces Ekklesia director Jonathan Bartley as "The best looking Christian in Britain" :) - 19 Mar
2008What we're now seeing is the end of what was historically called Christendom in Europe," says Jonathan Bartley, "This has been the result of large-scale immigration, growth in democracy, a secularizin - 11 Mar
2008 - 7 Mar
2008The church’s strategy is now clear – that if it is to have a hope of maintaining its privileges, it must try to get them extended to other religions too, says Jonathan Bartley - 6 Mar
2008Disestablishment would not mean the removal of religion from public life
