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Press Archive
- 7 Nov
2009Editorial based largely on Ekklesia's report 'Reimagining Remembrance'. (Link to Ekklesia's report is towards the end). - 26 Oct
2009Ekklesia comments on the story that the return of bank bonuses has angered bishops and spread to the venerable churches of the Square Mile itself.
Radio Archive
- 1 Nov
2009Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley is interviewed by Roger Boulton, about Ekklesia's new report 'Reimagining Remembrance' which looks at how Remembrance Day could become more truthful and inclusive - 6 May
2009Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley discusses the new Action Man toys produced by the MOD, and asks whether children are a legitimate target for military marketing
Web Archive
- 2 Jul
2009Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley takes part in a podcast looking at the role of religion in the European elections, and in particular the new 'Christian' Party which achieved 2.5% of the vote. - 5 Mar
2009Ekklesia comments on the news that the Vatican is considering welcoming into the Roman Catholic Church a group of traditional Anglicans who broke away from the global Anglican Communion nearly two dec
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Agenda - Race and Identity
Gordon Brown has proposed that Remembrance Sunday might be developed into a patriotic national day to celebrate British history, achievements and culture. Ekklesia has suggested that Martin Luther King’s ‘World House’ vision would be a better starting point. Ideas for ‘abolition of the nation state’, contained in a paper by the same name, have been published in the Guardian newspaper.
- 22 Oct
2009 - 20 Jun
2009Commenting on journalist Ben White's new book Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide, Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think tank Ekklesia, said:
- 14 Jun
2009Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley debates with Benjamin Zephaniah, and Louise Bagshawe the funding of the NHS, freedom of speech and the abolition of the monarchy. The Big Questions were: - 8 Jun
2009Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, which has been warning of the rise of the far right and their use of 'Christian' rhetoric for some time, says that "more t
- 5 May
2009Backing the 4 May 2009 'day of action' calling for undocumented migrants in the UK to have the opportunity to become citizens, Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekkle
- 18 Apr
2009Commenting in the light of the Evangelical Alliance's highlighting of the impact of new UK immigration rules on Christians, the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia has reiterated that attentio
- 31 Mar
2009Daily Telegraph picks up a story that Ekklesia broke, about the BNP using Jesus in an advertising campaign. Ekklesia quoted. - 31 Mar
2009Ekklesia's co-director Jonathan Bartley talks to Nick Ferrari about Ekklesia's work to expose the BNP's religious rhetoric, following the far-right's BNP's adverts featuring Jesus Christ. - 29 Jan
2009 - 13 Jan
2009Responding to the latest comments from UK immigration Phil Woolas, Ekklesia associate Vaughan Jones, who heads up the agency Praxis, which works with displaced people, said:
- 20 Nov
2008Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think tank Ekklesia, which says that Immigration Minister Phil Woolas should investigate his own government's bias against asylum seekers rathe
- 19 Nov
2008 - 10 Sep
2008Commenting on former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey's comments about immigration, printed in the Times today (Wednesday 10 September 2008) Ekklesia associate and URC minister Vaughan Jones, wh
- 29 May
2008Responding to the latest remarks by Bishop Michael Nazir Ali about the decline of Christianity and moral values in Britain Simon Barrow, co-directo
- 22 Apr
2008The 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
