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  • 21 May 2012
    Banker calls for mutuality as the basis of economic reform

    A ground-breaking Church of Scotland report on economics is calling for a recovery of vision based on people, mutuality and trust.

  • 26 Mar 2012
    Churches encouraged to develop a new vision of economics

    A large gathering of people from south-west England and across Britain convened in Bristol on Saturday to explore visions of a New Economy.

  • 24 Mar 2012
    New Economy conference: live tweeting

    This morning the conference entitled 'The Eye of the Needle: Biblical Clues to a New Economy' begins in Bristol, co-sponsored by the Southwest churches and Ekklesia.

  • 23 Mar 2012
    Re-thinking economics and legal reform

    The Christian thinktank Ekklesia, which looks at how beliefs and values can reshape policy and action on public issues, is co-sponsoring an innovative conference on ‘alternative economics’ and has just published a briefing on the UK legal justice as it effects poor countries.

  • 22 Mar 2012
    Budgeting for stagnation

    George Osborne's latest budget has reconfirmed Britain's prolonged collapse in economic activity, as he thrashes around for supply-side "solutions".

  • 22 Mar 2012
    The Eye of the Needle: Biblical Clues to a New Economy

    A one day conference in Bristol on Saturday 24th March 2012 will explore the distinctive contribution of radical Christian faith to the shaping of a new post-financial crisis economic order.

  • 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.