Agenda - Life and Death

Churches, bio-ethics, hectoring and humility

Press Office — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:47:06 +0000

Whatever the different moral estimates of the issues involved in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, churches should not be seen to be using institutional hectoring to get their own way, s

Inter-Species Embryos, More4 News, 6 September 2007

Press Office — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:00:05 +0100

Ekklesia's co-director debates inter-species embryos with Evan Harris MP

Bishop wrong to support nuclear strike

Simon Barrow — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:24:09 +0000

Responding to an article by the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper (“I believe in Trident, and using it if necessary”, 4 March 2007), Simon Barrow, co-director of the Ch

Heaven and Earth Show - BBC1 19th November 2006

Press Office — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:19:46 +0000

Ekklesia's director Jonathan Bartley joins the Heaven and Earth Show panel to talk about Euthanasia, University Christian Unions, women priests, E

Red poppy 'less Christian' claim - BBC Online, 9th September 2006

Press Office — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:01:57 +0000

The BBC reports Ekklesia's suggestion that the wearing of red poppies is 'politically correct' and stifles debate about issues of peace and war.

Comment on trial of Saddam Hussein

Press Office — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:30:07 +0000

Simon Barrow, co-director of the UK Christian think tank Ekklesia, said that the churches needed to speak out consistently against all kinds of violence, both by states and by armed terror groups.<

Protecting the disabled by Jonathan Bartley, The Guardian 6th December 2003

Press Office — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:00:34 +0000

Following the news that a Church of England curate was challenging the police refusal to prosecute doctors for performing a late abortion on a baby with a cleft palate, Jonathan Bartley writes about t