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  • 25 Nov 2011
    Pay gap fueling rising poverty

    Ekklesia is a co-signatory to a letter in the Guardian today (25 November 2011), along with five other churches and groups, regarding the growing pay gap.

  • 17 Nov 2011
    The case for publicly-created 'free' money

    Every day it seems that Europe sinks deeper and deeper into a pit of debt, with one country after another finding the interest rates demanded on its borrowings climbing ever higher.

  • 2 Nov 2011
    De-coding Mammon: money in need of redemption

    A review of a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Theology, submitted to the University of Exeter by Peter John Dominy

  • 2 Nov 2011
    Challenging the idols of high finance

    The protest at St Paul's was seen by an unexpectedly large number of people as the expression of a widespread and deep exasperation with the financial establishment that shows no sign at all of diminishing, says Archbishop Rowan Williams, as he goes on to back practical, morally based measures to address the economic crisis - including the Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions.

  • 28 Oct 2011
    St Paul's, people and economy
  • 16 Oct 2011
    Demonstrations against financial greed sweep the world

    Millions of protesters in 82 countries and across a thousand cities have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the bailing out of the rich.

  • 8 Oct 2011
    Britain needs 'green quantitative easing', says Lucas

    Greens say that the latest Bank of England quantitative easing move further highlights the need for a regulated, environmental approach to finance.

  • 22 Sep 2011
    Quaker conference to tackle economic justice

    Quakers in Britain says that people and society are being geared to supporting economic systems, rather than the other way round.

  • 22 Aug 2011
    Making finance ethical and sustainable

    Many economic commentators, and those working in banking and finance, thought that the worst of the global economic recession had gone away. They were wrong. It looks to be back with a vengeance.

  • 15 Aug 2011
    Faith in taxation?

    In most religious traditions there is a commitment to giving money to the poor, and more radically to various kinds of economic sharing within communities.