
Speaking after a debate with Controller of Radio 4 Mark Damazer on the BBC's PM Programme, concerning the BBC Trust's report on Thought for the Day, Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley said:
Commenting on the Ugandan bill to further criminalise homosexuality in the country, by imprisonment and capital punishment, Symon Hill, associate director of the religion and society thinktank Ekkl
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Commenting on Christian think tank Ekklesia's report on the future of Christian Union /Student Union relations, entitled 'United we Stand: A report on current conflicts between Christian Unions and
The plan by science communicator turned anti-religion campaigner Professor Richard Dawkins to take his crusade into schools has been met with concern and scepticism by some of his peers and allies
The UK Christian think tank Ekklesia says that arguments like the BA Cross row are increasing because old 'Christendom' assumptions about a privileged place for Christianity, and its identification
The call by the progressive New Generation Network for a better debate on race and faith issues, in the wake of the 30th anniversary of the Race Relations Act, has been backed by Simon Barrow of th
Simon Barrow, co-director of Ekklesia, said: "The PM's comments seem worryingly complacent, given that a senior figure associated with faith-based academy schools has recently participated in a wel
Simon Barrow, co-director of the UK Christian think tank Ekklesia, said that the churches needed to speak out consistently against all kinds of violence, both by states and by armed terror groups.<
Ekklesia's director Jonathan Bartley: "The Government's u-turn over faith schools is a symptom of the 'New Deal' that has been struck between faith groups and government.
Britain's leading Catholic the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, followed the Pope's lead and expressed doubts over the positive impact that allowing a predominately
Ekklesia’s director Jonathan Bartley: “In 2000, the US International Republican Institute taught activists in Serbia how to strike, communicate with symbols, hide from police, respond t