
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 media scares about the CERN 'Big Bang' experiment, Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think tank Ekklesia, commented: "We live in a world hugely dependent on scienc
Simon Barrow, co-director of Ekklesia, says that the Christian think-tank "is delighted to be a founding member of the new coalition, Accord, which seeks to reform faith schools through fair admiss
Following the announcement by Jack Straw yesterday that should a reformed House of Lords contain an appointed element, the Government would maintain the place of bishops in it, Jonathan Bartley, co
Responding 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
Responding to today's report 'Bad Faith' by Cristina Odone for the Centre for Policy Studies, Jonathan Bartley, director of the religious thinktank Ekklesia said:
Commenting 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
Responding to the Labour Party's new consultation with faith communities, launched by the Prime Minister at a reception at Number 10 Downing Street, the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia ha
Ekklesia's response to the crucial parliamentary vote on 42 day detention without trial.
Responding to the latest remarks by Bishop Michael Nazir Ali about the decline of Christianity and moral values in Britain Simon Barrow, co-directo
Responding to the decision by an employment tribunal that a Christian charity constructively dismissed a former employee, himself a Christian, when he refused to discriminate against non-Christians
The 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
"Arguing about the latest statistics misses the point," says Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia.
The religion and society think tank Ekklesia is backing an independent initiative aimed at marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel with a call from senior Christian lead
The 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
Whatever the different moral estimates of the issues involved in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, churches should not be seen to be using institutional hectoring to get their own way, s