Today is Remembrance Day. But what is ‘remembering’ in human and Christian terms, asks Simon Barrow? How can we probe beneath the emotion and ceremony in order to discover (and practice) something life-affirming as we recall the tragedy of war?
Ex Secretary of State for Defence Michael Portillo agrees with Ekklesia that red poppy 'remembrance' includes the suggestion that violence is redemptive (which Ekklesia says is a bad thing, Portillo a
A report on the 'impassioned debate' provoked by Ekklesia, when it urged churches to promote white poppies alongside red ones, and give people a choice.