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  • 25 Jan 2013
    Better... but the government is still in a mess over marriage

    The UK government's culture secretary, Maria Miller, gave a rather faltering performance on BBC Radio 4's flagship 'Today' programme this morning, answering questions -- or, rather, trying to avoid them -- about the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill.

  • 1 Oct 2011
    Marriage: commitment, creativity and celebration

    Marriage. What’s it all about, then? In a sermon marking the wedding of two established friends of Ekklesia, Simon Barrow looks at the spiritual and social embeddedness which means that, in Bonhoeffer's words, “It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”

  • 22 Dec 2010
    Marriage law overhaul well overdue, says thinktank

    The Christian thinktank Ekklesia says that the new 'Equal Love Campaign', with legal challenges aimed at securing the right to same-sex marriage and heterosexual civil partnerships, highlight once more the ”long overdue” need to overhaul the system of marriage law in the UK.

  • 21 Jul 2009
    Marriage and its enemy-like friends

    Some hardline pressure groups within the church are sucking mar­riage into a narrow religious ghetto, associating it with suburban 1950s curtain-twitching, thus making it even less popular than it is now, says Giles Fraser.

  • 12 Mar 2007
    Anglicans and Presbyterians encourage people to get hitched

    Wedding fairs, guides and web advisers are the latest ways of trying to get more people to marry in church

  • 16 Jun 2006
    What Future for Marriage?