
Responding to the Labour Party's new consultation with faith communities, launched by the Prime Minister at a reception at Number 10 Downing Street, the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia ha
Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, which has argued that an inclusive stance towards lesbian and gay people is compatible with the historic commitments of ma
The government's foreign labour statistics gaffe does not justify the apocalyptic tones of the current debate about migration, which is about people and development, not numbers and panic, says the
In an initial comment on a new BBC/ComRes survey for 'The Big Questions' (broadcasting Sunday 9 September 2007, 10am on BBC One TV), indicating that 83 per cent of people think Britain is experienc
Responding to fears expressed by some faith groups that religious freedom is being undermined by the frameworks of law and regulation leading up to proposals for a Single Equality Bill, the indepen
The current political debate about migration is over-preoccupied with controlling borders, says the co-director of Christian think tank Ekklesia.
The think-tank Ekklesia has said that the unsuccessful attempt by a schoolgirl and her backers to get the High Court to recognise her wish to defy a uniform policy in order to wear a silver 'chasti
The think-tank Ekklesia has said that it will continue to raise concerns about the policies and practices of faith schools in areas such as access, equality and employment - on grounds both of fair
Responding to the authoritative new report Human Tide: The Real Migration, Simon Barrow of the UK think tank Ekklesia welcomed Christian Aid's research.
Peter Halliday, aged 61, from Farnborough, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison earlier, after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of boys in Hampshire in the 1980s.
A debate about Ekklesia's proposals for changing the relationships between civic marria