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Press Archive
- 19 Mar
2008What we're now seeing is the end of what was historically called Christendom in Europe," says Jonathan Bartley, "This has been the result of large-scale immigration, growth in democracy, a secularizin - 7 Mar
2008The church’s strategy is now clear – that if it is to have a hope of maintaining its privileges, it must try to get them extended to other religions too, says Jonathan Bartley
Radio Archive
- 1 Jul
2008Jonathan Bartley debates with John Nicol on the Jeremy Vine show (Juliam Worricker standing in) saying any memorial to Bomber Command in the Second World War should incorporate the memory of the half - 16 May
2008Ekklesia director discusses the positive side to the economic slowdown, leaving behind consumerism, with a panel including the New Economics Foundation
Web Archive
- 30 May
2008Inayat Bunglawala, Assistant Secretary-General at the Muslim Council of Britain, quotes Simon Barrow on Michael Nazir-Ali's comments. - 8 May
2008Ekklesia quoted on Israel’s 60th anniversary, concerning 140 Christian leaders who joined together in a unified call for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians
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Agenda - Sex and Gender
Ekklesia has often been asked to comment on issues of homosexuality in the Church of England. Ekklesia has sponsored a number of events on homosexuality and homophobia.
- 7 Feb
2008Simon 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
- 9 Nov
2007 - 9 Nov
2007Coverage of Ekklesia's statement regarding the appointment of the head of the Evangelical Alliance UK to the new Commission on Equality and Human Rights (ECHR). - 7 Sep
2007Responding 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
- 30 May
2007 - 26 Apr
2007Peter 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.
- 13 Mar
2007Responding to accusations by the Catholic Bishop of Motherwell and the Anglican Bishop of Durham that the government is promoting a 'new morality' by pursuing a comprehensive equalities agenda in p
- 31 Jan
2007
The announcement that there will be no opt-out for Catholic adoption agencies from the - 30 Jan
2007 - 9 Jan
2007The UK Christian think-tank Ekklesia says that the "panic and anxiety" over equalities legislation, which would prevent gay people facing discrimination in public services and in the provision of g
- 9 Jan
2007Politics.co.uk reports on Ekklesia's suggestion that those protesting against the Government's proposed Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) are clinging onto Christendom, and that the majority of Ch - 9 Jan
2007Times Religious Correspondent Ruth Gledhill quotes Ekklesia on the controversial Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) - 22 Jan
2006
Ekklesia's director Jonathan Bartley debates the BBC broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera with Stephen Green from Christian Voice - 14 Nov
2005
Jonathan Bartley debates inclusion, equality, gay clergy and homosexuality in the chu - 2 Oct
2004Jonathan Bartley assesses Stephen Bates's straight-talking account of the profound divisions in the Church of England, A Church at War
