We Just found an entry about Ekklesia on Damien Thompson's blog.
Thompson (left) is editor-in-chief at the Catholic Herald. He has a blog on the Daily Telegraph site [1], and he has written about an interview I did for BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning.
Ekklesia has been described as a lot of things over the years; "Left-wing", "Right-Wing", "Liberal", "Evangelical", and Ruth Gledhill from the Times even described us as "influential" yesterday [2], which was very kind (thanks Ruth!).
Damien Thompson however reckons we are "dreary" which we all found very amusing.
We wondered why he feels the need to resort to name-calling, so we thought we would investigate. One theory is that this might be an attempt to be a bit controversial and drum up a some traffic to his blog. In the whole World Wide Web, and despite the fact his blog is hosted by the best-selling UK broadsheet, Damien's only has 174 links to it - according to the blog authority Technorati [3]. (If you want to see how many Ekklesia has click here [4] but at the last count it was 1,787).
So in the spirit of turning the other cheek we thought we would help him out and give him a link...(here [1])
Who knows, maybe we can help one another stop being so 'dreary' :)
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