Agenda - Community and Family

Welfare should be based on fairness

Press Office — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:30:42 +0100

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

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’.

Shifting Evangelical opinion on sexuality

Press Office — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:51:31 +0000

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

Migration is about people, before statistics

Press Office — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:59:14 +0000

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

Morality means working together, not seeking superiority

Simon Barrow — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:07:34 +0100

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

Faith groups need to embrace equality with enthusiasm

Press Office — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:43:58 +0100

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

More realism needed on global migration, says think tank

Press Office — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:21:46 +0100

The current political debate about migration is over-preoccupied with controlling borders, says the co-director of Christian think tank Ekklesia.

Silver ring case is not about anti-Christian discrimination

staff writers — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:05:27 +0100

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

Continuing concern about faith schools' policies

Simon Barrow — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:03:24 +0100

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

Biblical scholar challenges churches on Jesus' family values

Press Office — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:00:48 +0100

An opportunity to hear Professor Good, from the Episcopal Church's prestigious General Theological Seminary, at Ste Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace (78 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AG) at 11am on Thursday 31 May 2007.

Migration is an issue of justice not scapegoating

Simon Barrow — Fri, 18 May 2007 09:10:08 +0100

Responding to the authoritative new report Human Tide: The Real Migration, Simon Barrow of the UK think tank Ekklesia welcomed Christian Aid's research.

No room for church complacency on sex abuse

Simon Barrow — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:53:40 +0100

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.

Moral of the Story, ITV, 18th March 2007

Press Office — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:12:45 +0000

The moral case for Trident and a national curriculum for babies feature in discussion, with Ekklesia's co-director Jonathan Bartley

Moral of the Story, ITV, 4 March 2007

Press Office — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:33:50 +0000

What are we doing to our children? torture, and Abu Qatada feature in discussion, with Ekklesia's co-director Jonathan Bartley

Rethinking marriage, Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4, 11 February 2007

Press Office — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:56:45 +0000

A debate about Ekklesia's proposals for changing the relationships between civic marria