Agenda - Education and Culture

Discrimination in religious schools

Press Office — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:29:43 +0100

Responding to the broader concern attached to a high court judgement issued on 2 July 2008 (see 'Faith Schools judgment fails to consider human rights angle'), Simon Barrow, co-director of the UK r

Comment on 'Bad Faith' faith schools report

Press Office — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:19:56 +0100

Responding to today's report 'Bad Faith' by Cristina Odone for the Centre for Policy Studies, Jonathan Bartley, director of the religious thinktank Ekklesia said:

Children should not be made to worship

Press Office — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:42:19 +0100

The Christian think-tank Ekklesia has concurred with the findings of a new report from Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights which says that any child of ‘sufficient maturity, intelligen

St George is no crusader

Press Office — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:53:42 +0100

The religion and society think-tank Ekklesia has welcomed a new painting of St George, the patron saint of England, which portrays him as a man of compassion and challenges the myth of 'the crusade

More thought needed on religion and schools

Press Office — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:27:44 +0000

Ekklesia has welcomed debate on how publicly funded schools should be open to pupils of all faiths and none, but has questioned the National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual report's idea of requirin

Review of admissions in church schools desperately needed

Press Office — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:42:20 +0000

Following the news that Secretary of State Ed Balls has ordered a review of admissions policies in faith and church schools, Jonathan Bartley, co-director of the religious thinktank Ekklesia, who h

Good citizens question ‘national pride’, says Christian think tank

Press Office — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:26:33 +0000

Encouraging people to commit to social justice, human dignity, equality, civic participation and peace-building is the way to create good citizens, says the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, not attempts to impose symbols of state allegiance and inflated rhetoric about ‘national pride’.

Row over Bush's 'censored' library, The Guardian, 25 February 2008

Press Office — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:52:04 +0000

Ekklesia quoted in coverage of the George W Bush presidential library which found a university location in Bush's home state of Texas - but controversy and accusations of bias have followed it even th

Intelligent Design - the wrong path

Press Office — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:42:05 +0000

The religion and society think-tank Ekklesia has welcomed a report from leading scholars critiquing 'intelligent design' ideas on both theological and scientific grounds.

Church in danger of theological suicide

Press Office — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:55:30 +0000

The churches in Britain are committing intellectual suicide if they do not invest in theological education and theological creativity among lay people (those not ordained to reserved ministry posts

Poll forces Church to re-examine way it teaches religion in schools, The Times, 19th November 2007

Press Office — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:09:22 +0000

The Church of England is to re-examine its approach to teaching religion in its schools after a "surprising" number of people told pollsters that church schools promote "narrow religious teaching", re

Church of England should stop 'spinning' around church schools says think-tank

staff writers — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:01:19 +0000

It is time that the Church of England faced up to the widespread public concern surrounding church schools and stopped trying to pretend that fear about Church schools comes only from a vociferous anti-religious minority.

Government responds to requests for action on 'creationism' (updated)

Press Office — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:19:29 +0100

In June 2007 the Christian think-tank Ekklesia and the British Humanist Association wrote to the new Schools, Children and Families minister, Ed Balls MP, urging him to make progress on combating creationism in British schools. The government has subsequently issued its promised guidelines.

Bloggers can speak out for justice and peace

Press Office — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:59:46 +0100

The think-tank Ekklesia, which reports, researches and comments on religion in society, is joining the "International Bloggers Day for Burma" (4 October 2007) to back peaceful change and global sol

Teachers' guidelines on science and religion teaching

Press Office — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:54:17 +0100

Simon Barrow, co-director of the UK Christian think-tank Ekklesia, has welcomed the government's new guidelines which prohibit teaching creationism and 'Intelligent Design' in science classrooms, b