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- 18 Nov
2009Speaking 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:
- 18 Nov
2009Commenting 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
Press Archive
- 7 Nov
2009Editorial based largely on Ekklesia's report 'Reimagining Remembrance'. (Link to Ekklesia's report is towards the end). - 26 Oct
2009Ekklesia comments on the story that the return of bank bonuses has angered bishops and spread to the venerable churches of the Square Mile itself.
TV Archive
- 14 Jun
2009Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley debates with Benjamin Zephaniah, and Louise Bagshawe the funding of the NHS, freedom of speech and the abolition of the monarchy. The Big Questions were: - 30 Mar
2009Ekklesia co-Jonathan Bartley is a panelist, with Nicky Campbell presenting the topical debate from the Linton Village College in Cambridgeshire.
Radio Archive
- 1 Nov
2009Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley is interviewed by Roger Boulton, about Ekklesia's new report 'Reimagining Remembrance' which looks at how Remembrance Day could become more truthful and inclusive - 6 May
2009Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley discusses the new Action Man toys produced by the MOD, and asks whether children are a legitimate target for military marketing
Web Archive
- 2 Jul
2009Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley takes part in a podcast looking at the role of religion in the European elections, and in particular the new 'Christian' Party which achieved 2.5% of the vote. - 5 Mar
2009Ekklesia comments on the news that the Vatican is considering welcoming into the Roman Catholic Church a group of traditional Anglicans who broke away from the global Anglican Communion nearly two dec
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- 29 Aug
2007The current political debate about migration is over-preoccupied with controlling borders, says the co-director of Christian think tank Ekklesia.
- 24 Aug
2007Nonviolent direct action - often criticised for bypassing representative democracy - can have both political and moral legitimacy in the face of inertia over major issues like social injustice and
- 15 Aug
2007Commenting on the fact that since the General Synod Facebook group went live on 1 August 2007, only 20 members have joined - and that the Church of England page has just 122 members - the Christia
- 25 Jul
2007On PM Gordon Brown's announcement that the Defence Export Services Orgamnsiation (DESO), which promotes UK arms overseas, will close in its current form:
- 24 Jul
2007The think-tank Ekklesia has said that the unsuccessful attempt by a schoolgirl and her backers to get the High Court to recognise her wish to defy a uniform policy in order to wear a silver 'chasti
- 16 Jul
2007The think-tank Ekklesia has said that it will continue to raise concerns about the policies and practices of faith schools in areas such as access, equality and employment - on grounds both of fair
- 18 May
2007Responding to the authoritative new report Human Tide: The Real Migration, Simon Barrow of the UK think tank Ekklesia welcomed Christian Aid's research.
- 16 May
2007Commenting an an award-winning scheme at Feltham Young Offenders Institute which provides men with a volunteer mentor to encourage them in their faith as a means of combatting re-offending, Simon B
- 16 May
2007Responding to Pope Benedict's strictures on Marxism and the Christian message, Jordan Tchilingirian, researcher for the religious thin-tank Ekklesia, commented today that peoples’ views of Marx
- 3 May
2007Responding to recent comments about the Association of Teachers and Lecturers' position paper on faith schools, which calls for substantial reform, the religious think-tank Ekklesia has said that t
- 1 May
2007Responding to the forthright call of the Anglican Archbishop of York for voters to reject the BNP and racist politics in the forthcoming elections, the religious think-tank Ekklesia has warned of t
- 26 Apr
2007Peter Halliday, aged 61, from Farnborough, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison earlier, after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of boys in Hampshire in the 1980s.
- 25 Apr
2007Ekklesia has responded to the suggestion made today by the Anglican Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Senior Church of England spokesperson on Communications and Bishop John Arnold
- 20 Apr
2007After an interview today on BBC Radio Four's Today Programme, during which he urged that Thought for the Day have contributors from beyond the main world religions, Ekklesia's co-director and contr
- 19 Apr
2007Members of the UK's House of Lords will today (19 April 2007) discuss the position and rights of the non-religious in Britain today.
