Commentary

Regular comment and analysis from some of our staff and associates.

Anne Booth

Bernadette Meaden

Catherine Hale

Chris Cole

Holly Wallis

Jill Segger

Jonathan Bartley

Press Office

Savi Hensman

Simon Barrow

Symon Hill

Wendy Bradley

March 18, 2007

UK Christians urged to be positive not negative about loss of status
March 17, 2007

The History of Christian Thought - Review

Simon Barrow appraises an effective and lively potted history of Christian thought throughout the ages.
March 17, 2007

Screen and airwaves

Ekklesia will be on national television and radio over the next few days.
March 17, 2007

Lords and bishops go a-leaping

Simon Barrow charts the struggle for an elected second chamber, the anomaly of Lords Spiritual, and a lurking theological question
March 16, 2007

Good news... the beeb goes nuclear

Blair's bad hair day trumps Cameron's parting of the waves. Official.
March 16, 2007

Time to end discrimination by faith schools
March 16, 2007

A larger vision of 'family'

Many commentators, both religious and secular, assume that a narrow definition of family is readily mandated by the biblical texts. They're wrong.
March 16, 2007

Wrestling biblically with the changing shape of family

New Testament scholar Deirdre Good explains why simplistic appeals to scripture distort its meaning, and why for the Gospel family is built on magnanimity not exclusion
March 15, 2007

What has happened to the Free Churches?

Keith Clements argues that the Free Churches need to work rigorously for a genuinely ecumenical movement – not one dominated by established Anglican and Catholic interests
March 15, 2007

A crie de coeur (and top lip)

Freelance theologian Theo Hobson has made a passionate call for disestablishment. He should get rid of that moustache, though.
March 15, 2007

Acting in mysterious ways

The Archbishop of York voted against democracy last night, after being slightly delayed by a royal banquet.
March 14, 2007

Too much talk, too little meaning

Never before has the opportunity for discourse, and the challenge to its essential truthfulness, been greater.
March 13, 2007

Scotland's Christian political landscape

There's a good article on Christian political influence (and lack of it) in Scotland today, in the Herald newspaper.
March 13, 2007

Church leaders' visit to Iran

We've been slow in providing feedback on the trip to Tehran by 13 US Christian leaders, coordinated by Mennonites and Quakers.
March 13, 2007

Church leaders, equality rules and a 'new morality'