On the issue of the US involvement in Iraq, here's a very sobering statistic...

Following our report on the activities and ethos of the Scottish Christian Party and its analogue in Wales (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5185), we have received several communications from concerned voters.

For an electoral outfit trying to convince the public it is modern and mainstream, the British National Party has great difficulty in not letting its mask slip.

In the debate about Thought for the Day, there's a difference between creating space for spirituality ('spirited takes' on life, you might say) and stranded or sealed "religious broadcasting".

There, I knew that headline was sure to grab somebody's attention. There are four new comment articles up right now...

John Ruffle was rather, er, ruffled that his comment on our news story about the C of E and the BBC got removed.

A podcast of a lecture by leading theologian Marilyn McCord Adams has been made available - looking at the conflict within global Anglicanism.

The BBC website has featured Ekklesia's call that "the English should celebrate their role as global citizens and not as 'narrow nationalists' on the patron saint's day."

The properly serious matter of climate change notwithstanding, the Church of England has gone for wry enlightenment with its latest press release.