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  • 4 Jun
    2009
    Churches and the rejuvenating of democracy

    Churches could have a vital role to play in rejuvenating democracy, says Jonathan Bartley. But it needs to be through a faith-engagement with politics based on openness and change.

  • 1 Mar
    2009
    Faith needs a freedom agenda

    Genuine faith – in God, in the good, in people and in the future of our planet – grows through freedom, depends upon freedom to keep it honest, and can contribute to the shared openness and strived-for equality that is an essential part of our free flourishing, argues Simon Barrow.

  • 13 Nov
    2008
    How Faiths Work
    09/12/2008 - 09:30
    09/12/2008 - 16:30

    How Faiths Work is the first event in the series to focus exclusively on the way in which organisations from a particular equality strand- faiths- work, and how they can influence policy in London.

  • 4 Mar
    2008
    Tracing the history of faith in public life, New Statesman, 4 March 2008
    Jonathan Bartley from the Christian thinktank Ekklesia traces the history of faith in public life
  • 16 Jul
    2007
    Current Research: Reconsidering the secular

    A research project with a number of overlapping elements, including cooperation with academic and civic bodies, looking at the development of an inclusive vision of secularity in the public square - one which creates space and a level playing field for the widest range of protagonists, both religious and non-religious.

    Ekklesia Staff
  • 3 Dec
    2006
    Let's not sleepwalk with the Christian soldiers: Nick Cohen
    The Observer's Nick Cohen, quoting Ekklesia on numbers of Christians and the politicisation of the church.
  • 22 Nov
    2006
    It's the narrative, stupid by Simon Barrow

    What gives meaning to modern, story-shaped politics?

  • 22 Oct
    2006
    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.

  • 25 Jul
    2006
    Government should stop propping up religion

    The present situation where churches seek government support in areas like education, and government uses faith groups to prop up its own social agenda, is unhealthy for all concerned, says Ekklesia.

  • 3 Jul
    2006
    Faith and Politics standoff a 'dead end' says new book

    Current ideas about the relationship between faith and politics ‚Ä' both among believers and secularists ‚Ä' are ‚Äúhopelessly stuck‚Äù in a confrontation which is ‚Äúas deadly as it is mistaken‚Äù, says the UK Christian think tank Ekklesia ‚Ä' which is launching a book proposing a ‚Äúradical new approach‚Äù.

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