Category - faith and politics

Churches and the rejuvenating of democracy

Jonathan Bartley — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:46:36 +0100

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.

Faith needs a freedom agenda

Simon Barrow — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:11:55 +0000

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.

How Faiths Work

Jordan Tchilingirian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:43:56 +0000

Start: 09/12/2008 - 09:30

End: 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.

Tracing the history of faith in public life, New Statesman, 4 March 2008

Press Office — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:26:57 +0000

Jonathan Bartley from the Christian thinktank Ekklesia traces the history of faith in public life

Current Research: Reconsidering the secular

Ekklesia Staff — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:49:59 +0100

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

Let's not sleepwalk with the Christian soldiers: Nick Cohen

Press Office — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:52:51 +0000

The Observer's Nick Cohen, quoting Ekklesia on numbers of Christians and the politicisation of the church.

It's the narrative, stupid by Simon Barrow

Simon Barrow — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:20:32 +0000

What gives meaning to modern, story-shaped politics?

Radical change needed in religion-politics debate

Press Office — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:03:11 +0100

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.

Government should stop propping up religion

Press Office — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:43:07 +0100

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.

Faith and Politics standoff a 'dead end' says new book

Press Office — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:38:14 +0100

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.