Category - thought for the day

27 Apr
2007

Slotting in religion

In the debate about Thought for the Day, there's a difference between creating space for spirituality ('spirited takes' on life, you might say) and stranded or sealed "religious broadcasting".
27 Apr
2007

Losing our (radio) religion?

Simon Barrow suggests that how the churches see their engagement with culture, including spaces like the BBC's Thought for The Day, is shaped by the question about how God has been turned into an artefact under Christendom.
27 Apr
2007

Family, politics, violence and God

There, I knew that headline was sure to grab somebody's attention. There are four new comment articles up right now...
27 Apr
2007

Why we need to rid ourselves of the 'god of the slots'

The church looking for ‘God slots’ in relation to culture is like religion seeking a ‘God of the gaps’ in relation to science: a huge mistake. The Gospel points us elsewhere.
25 Apr
2007

Bishops should face the music over BBC Radio 1

Ekklesia 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
23 Apr
2007

Thomas Moore responsible for Thought for the Day?

I have been mulling over the debate on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme at the end of last week, about whether humanists, agnostics, atheists, or others who do not subscribe to the major world religions, should be able to contribute to Radio 4's Thought for the Day slot.
21 Apr
2007

Christian think tank calls for non-religious inclusion in Thought for the Day, The O Project, 21 April 2007

Report on Ekklesia's call on the BBC to end its policy of not allowing non-religious contributors in it’s morning reflection slot ‘Thought for the Day.’
20 Apr
2007

Wider range of voices called for in BBC’s beliefs radio slot

BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day reflection spot could be opened up to the non-religious as well as the religious, argues one of its Christian contributors. Jonathan Bartley says it can help people to listen to one another better.
20 Apr
2007

Including humanists and secularists in Thought for the Day, BBC Radio 4, 20th April 2007

Ekklesia's director Jonathan Bartley suggests that those beyond the major world religio
20 Apr
2007

Opening up BBC's Thought for the Day

After 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

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