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  • 7 Jul 2007
    Brown questioned about pro-Protestant constitutional bias

    Gordon Brown has been challenged by Scottish Catholic Cardinal Keith O'Brien for not including mention of the repeal of the Act of Settlement, which ensures only a Protestant can take the British throne, in constitutional proposals.

  • 6 Jul 2007
    Music lovers challenged to ‘Cut the Carbon’ at T in The Park

    T in the Park, the biggest carbon neutral music festival in the world, is this year supporting development agency Christian Aid’s Cut the Carbon campaign and helping promote its 1,000 mile Cut the Carbon March across the UK.

  • 26 Jun 2007
    Methodists want positive alternatives to playing at war

    While the issue of whether it is right or helpful to ban violent video games is becoming a hot topic again, the Methodist Church's chidren's adviser wants to see a more positive approach to kids learning about peace.

  • 25 Jun 2007
    Media urged to question its role in 'culture of confrontation'

    Received ideas about neutrality, ‘news values’ and the place of reporting in current events must be questioned because of the changing global role of the media in an age of conflict, a commentator will suggest at a meeting in St Ethelburga's Centre, London, on 26 June 2007.

  • 24 Jun 2007
    Finding at-one-ment in Middlemarch

    Alison Goodlad re-reads George Eliot’s classic ‘Middlemarch’ – and discovers that its provincial narrative has some powerful things to tell us about loving purpose in life, atonement and even Eucharistic living.

  • 24 Jun 2007
    Ekklesia on Facebook

    We have joined our work to the social networking site that everyone is talking about...

  • 22 Jun 2007
    Making Peace Headline News

    You are invited to a discussion on Making peace headline news with Ekklesia director Simon Barrow, on Tuesday 26 June 2007, at St Ethelburga's, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG, starting at 6.30pm. Ends by 8pm. All welcome.

  • 22 Jun 2007
    How to change the agenda from violence to peacebuilding

    You are invited to a discussion on Making peace headline news with Ekklesia's Simon Barrow, on Tuesday 26 June 2007, at St Ethelburga's, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG, starting at 6.30pm. Ends by 8pm. All welcome. Feel free to spread the news.

  • 19 Jun 2007
    Church school challenged on fair access for kids with disabilities

    A church school’s refusal to admit a wheelchair-bound child highlights important questions of access, inclusion and the duties of both voluntary-aided schools and the whole education sector, says the parent involved.

  • 18 Jun 2007
    BBC trust attacks coverage of anti-poverty action in entertainment shows

    A report published by the new BBC trust today is critical of some programmes for allowing celebrity-backed anti-poverty groups to appear in entertainment shows. Their backers say this reflects reality, an is an antidote to comercialism.