Category - media

Making peace matter

Simon Barrow — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:31:49 +0100

Ekklesia has contributed to a forthcoming book on the Christian Peacemaker Teams Iraq hostage crisis and its ramifications.

Religious polemics migrate to cyberspace

Adam Darlage — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:44:52 +0100

New technology has always played a part in religious polemics and in the sense of identity generated through the heated exchange of opinion, says Adam Darlage. Consider Luther and the Catholics, and also what we see happening in cyberspace today.

Scottish Catholic bishops say morality is going from the media

staff writers — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:10:39 +0100

In a message sent to all of Scotland's 500 Catholic parishes for the 42nd World Communications Day, Bishop Philip Tartaglia claims that "a fundamental disconnection between the provider and the consumer" has occurred in the media

Church and media need new understanding, says Lutheran bishop

Stephen Brown — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:07:13 +0000

Church leaders and journalists have little idea of the pressures that each other face, according to German Lutheran Bishop Margot Kässmann, who has called for a new understanding.

Drowning out proper debate

Simon Barrow — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:34:00 +0000

What is at stake in the row occasioned by Rowan Williams' Sharia musings is the possibility of reasoned discourse and a serious consideration of Islam in Europe, says Catholic scholar Tina Beattie.

Churches urged to be 'more Christian' in public policy statements

Walt Wiltschek — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:32:59 +0000

The Rev Kjell Magne Bondevik, former prime minister of Norway and now moderator of the World Council of Churches' Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, wants to see its public statements carry a distinctly religious tone.

Protest to the BBC over coverage of the Williams row

staff writers — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:23:25 +0000

As the furore over Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' remarks about religious and civil law subsides into a more considered debate beyond the headlines, the Anglican leader is receiving backing from some unexpected quarters.

On possibly being a political junkie

Johan Maurer — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:14:59 +0000

Actual sea changes in politics come rarely, but they do come, so don't let cynicism make you a functional reactionary, says Johan Maurer, who particularly wishes that the evangelical Christian community would be released from hero-worship and grasped by a biblical vision of social justice.

Buddhist monks are the big 2007 religious news story in USA

Ecumenical News International — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:42:17 +0000

Buddhist monks who led anti-government demonstrations in Burma have been selected as the top religion newsmakers of the year 2007, in a poll of secular journalists who write about religion for media in the United States.

Violence, the media and redemption

Colin M. Morris — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:46:51 +0000

If children are traumatised by media images of violence, the answer is not censorship says Colin Morris, but deeper questions about the networks of wrong doing we are part of and the question of whether and how redemption is possible.