Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Well, not necessarily frequent – but these are some of the questions which come up from time to time – both about Ekklesia, and about our approach to the issues we tackle.

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Media Training

Ekklesia has extensive experience of dealing with local, national and international media including press, broadcast and new media.

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History

The democratic system of government present in Athens, Greece, intermittently in the 500 years before the death of Christ, has been hailed by many as the forerunner to modern democracy. In order to commune and make decisions, the city-state of Athens met in the "Ekklesia", or people's assembly, to which any citizen over the age of 20 had a right to attend, speak, and vote.

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Values

Ekklesia is an independent public policy think-tank seeking to examine the role of religion in a creatively critical way, and also to advance ideas in a range of policy areas from a religious perspect

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Partners

Ekklesia has both individual and organisations partners. To find out more about becoming an individual partner click here.

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Government's U-turn on faith schools

Ekklesia's director Jonathan Bartley: "The Government’s u-turn over faith schools is a symptom of the ‘New Deal’ that has been struck between faith groups and government.

U-turn on faith schools a symptom of undesirable 'New Deal'

The scrapping of plans to require new faith schools in England to raise intakes from other religions is a sign of an emerging, but undesirable and problematic 'New Deal' between faith groups and government, the think tank Ekklesia has today warned.

Radical change needed in religion-politics debate

In light of a call today that Prince Charles should become the Defender of the Christian faith at his Coronation, and a feature by the Sunday Times asking whether it time to take 'God out of the state', the religious thinktank Ekklesia is urging a radical change in the way that the debate about religion and politics is framed.