We cannot be comprehensive, but we try to cover a range of stories showing how religion and politics interact – both positively and negatively.

Truly biblical faith is about forgiveness, hope, repentance (radical change), a new community, magnanimity, peacemaking and the thirst for justice.

We don’t accept that we are.

Ekklesia was set up by Jonathan Bartley in 2002, out of his experience of a theological training course (Workshop) which introduced him to the Radical Reformation tradition and which produced a major

No. Its co-directors happen to be Anglicans, but of a dissenting type! And Ekklesia as an organisation has no formal denominational links of any kind.

We don’t think it is the proper business of governing authorities to run religious bodies, and we don’t think it is the proper role of faith communities to sanction states by pronouncing divine bl

Yes. But these words are often greatly misunderstood and misapplied.

We question both labels, which are often deployed in a simplistic and polarising way.