Agenda - Economy and Politics

Positive effects of an economic slowdown, Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 2, 15th May 2008

Press Office — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:08:10 +0100

Ekklesia director discusses the positive side to the economic slowdown, leaving behind consumerism, with a panel including the New Economics Foundation

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

Fair trade shows that ordinary people can bring change

Press Office — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:21:39 +0000

The religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, which actively backs Fair Trade initiatives as part of its work in exploring alternative economic and social policies, says that the just trade movemen

Conscience and religious exemptions

Press Office — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:34:25 +0000

Commenting on the Archbishop of Canterbury's claim that rights of conscience for religion necessitate the granting of exemptions from UK legislation, the Christian think-tank Ekklesia says that whi

Oikocredit is a real investment in hope

Press Office — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:16:32 +0000

The think-tank Ekklesia, which examines religion in public life and promotes constructive alternatives within the social, political and economic realm, has said that the Oikocredit global social in

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

Make ethical business the norm, not a luxury

Press Office — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:41:11 +0100

Simon Barrow, co-director of the Christian think tank Ekklesia, said today that the best way to honour the memory of Anita Roddick - who died on 10 September 2007 - was to take forward the case for

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.

Direct action may be needed to address climate change

Press Office — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:26:26 +0100

Nonviolent direct action - often criticised for bypassing representative democracy - can have both political and moral legitimacy in the face of inertia over major issues like social injustice and

Britain should cut back on arms sales

staff writers — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:37:40 +0100

On PM Gordon Brown's announcement that the Defence Export Services Orgamnsiation (DESO), which promotes UK arms overseas, will close in its current form:

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

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.

Is Marx's gospel a dead letter?

Simon Barrow — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:14:08 +0100

Responding to Pope Benedict's strictures on Marxism and the Christian message, Jordan Tchilingirian, researcher for the religious thin-tank Ekklesia, commented today that peoples’ views of Marx

Christians urged toward politics of hope, not fear

Ekklesia Staff — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:47:27 +0100

Responding to the forthright call of the Anglican Archbishop of York for voters to reject the BNP and racist politics in the forthcoming elections, the religious think-tank Ekklesia has warned of t

Human Trafficking and Slavery, Thought for the Day BBC Radio 4 24th January 2007

Press Office — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:04:11 +0000

The Government's announcement over human trafficking, and the celebrations to mark the