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  • 30 Oct 2011
    St Paul's: Showing off, shutting out or showing up?

    Do the managers at St Paul's Cathedral have the stomach to engage in the real world at the crest of a tidal race between people, money and power? asks Bishop Alan Wilson. Or are they just overgrown public schoolboys playing indoor games in their own self-important Tourist Disneyland?

  • 30 Oct 2011
    Sunday Programme: God, Mammon and St Paul's

    Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley is one of those interviewed outside St Paul's Cathedral for a feature on this morning's BBC Radio 4 'Sunday' programme on religion and belief issues (30 October 2011).

  • 30 Oct 2011
    Christian activists will seek to prevent eviction at St Paul's

    Christian activists have promised a non-violent 'ring of prayer' to defend protesters camped outside St Paul's Cathedral if eviction threats are realised.

  • 30 Oct 2011
    Church leaders seek to avert St Paul's 'PR disaster'

    The Bishop of London and Dean of St Paul’s have told Occupy London protesters they will meet them this morning. But they have much convincing to do.

  • 30 Oct 2011
    Jesus and Occupy: a bishop speaks out

    Church leaders have mostly been ducking for cover as the row over Occupy London on the steps of St Paul's has ratcheted up in recent days. The silence from Lambeth Palace until recently has been deafening.

  • 28 Oct 2011
    Would Jesus kick protesters off St Paul's ground?

    Where would Jesus be in in the current situation involving St Paul's Cathedral and the Occupy London movement? Symon Hill asks: Would he be camping outside in this freezing weather, speaking out against inequality, or inside the religious building, worrying about the revenue from tourists?

  • 28 Oct 2011
    Christian solidarity with the ‘Occupy London’ movement

    A number of Christian organisations have written a statement expressing solidarity with the ‘Occupy London’ movement. It reads as follows:

  • 28 Oct 2011
    St Paul's, people and economy
  • 28 Oct 2011
    British Christian groups back 'Occupy London' movement

    Several Christian organisations, including Ekklesia and the Student Christian Movement, have signed a statement declaring their support for 'Occupy London'.

  • 27 Oct 2011
    The City, finance and human obligations

    A new survey is about to be released concerning the values of those who work in the financial services industry. Giles Fraser, who has resigned as Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral over threats to forcibly evict Occupy anti-corporate greed protesters, says that mutual obligations are a more important guide to financial ethics than trading heavily mediated by technology and less and less reliant on direct human contact.