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  • 8 Nov
    2009
    Give freedom a chance

    Remembrance commemorations focus only on one, contested, idea of freedom. It needs to change to embrace freedom in all its fullness, says Jonathan Bartley

  • 7 Nov
    2009
    We won't forget you, Harry Patch

    This is the first November since the death of the “last Tommy”, Harry Patch. But Patch regarded Remembrance Day as "just show business". We can honour his memory by recognising that it's time to change the way that we remember.

  • 7 Nov
    2009
    Remembrance day: Goodbye to all that, Guardian leader
    Editorial based largely on Ekklesia's report 'Reimagining Remembrance'. (Link to Ekklesia's report is towards the end).
  • 2 Nov
    2009
    Reimagining Remembrance

    Remembrance Day needs to be re-imagined to make it more inclusive, more truthful and more meaningful for future generations, says this report. This would include an honest acknowledgement that some did “die in vain”, an end to “selective remembrance”, a positive stress on peacemaking, and making Armistice Day a bank holiday. The report follows the death of the 'last Tommy', Harry Patch from World War 1, who sadly described current patterns of Remembrance Day as “just show business”. Remembrance has been ‘cheapened’ by a failure to back up words with action, particularly when it comes to successive Government’s care for war veterans, but also the lack of resources put into peacebuilding. The report traces the development of Britain’s remembrance tradition and makes a series of proposals about how Remembrance Day might be updated and made more accessible. It also includes reflection on the meaning and practice of 'memory', not least from a Christian theological standpoint.

    Kate Guthrie
  • 2 Nov
    2009
    We need a more inclusive Remembrance Day

    A new report ahead of Remembrance Day is recommending a deeper and more meaningful form of remembrance that encompasses both soldiers and civilians on all sides in all wars.

  • 1 Nov
    2009
    Rethinking Remembrance Day, BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme
    Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley is interviewed by Roger Boulton, about Ekklesia's new report 'Reimagining Remembrance' which looks at how Remembrance Day could become more truthful and inclusive
  • 9 Jun
    2009
    Prophetic Remembrance

    I've just been reflecting on "prophetic living" whilst working on a project for Ekklesia around Remembrance Day

  • 7 Nov
    2008
    The default politics of Remembrance

    This Sunday 9 November, churches up and down the country will make a political statement which will be widely covered across print and broadcast media, says Jonathan Bartley. But it is likely to pass without so much as a murmur of criticism.

  • 12 Nov
    2007
    Iraq and Afghanistan violated just war theory, says Williams

    On the eve of Remembrance Sunday, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams described the Western-backed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a tragic mess which failed to conform to the principles of 'just war' theory and brought great suffering.

  • 9 Nov
    2006
    Red poppy 'less Christian' claim - BBC Online, 9th September 2006
    The BBC reports Ekklesia's suggestion that the wearing of red poppies is 'politically correct' and stifles debate about issues of peace and war.
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