Category - faith

Euro 2008 star mixes football and faith

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:42:48 +0100

Swiss soccer player Johan Vonlanthen says he has undergone phenomenal changes since he made his debut as an international soccer player, which he attributes to his faith. But his country have still made an early exit from Euro 2008.

Keeping faith with Blair?

Simon Barrow — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:15:35 +0100

Over on the ever-stimulating OpenDemocracy, Anthony Barnett offers an acute assessment of Tony Blair's recent blandishments on faith and the global order.

True faith is always asking questions

Giles Fraser — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:34:36 +0100

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century invention, in many ways a response to the rapid social change brought about by modernity and global capitalism, says Giles Fraser. It is a perversion of religion, and in no way the real thing, let alone its 'heartbeat'.

Learning the many faces of humanism

Mark Vernon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:48:58 +0100

Humanism is a philosophy and approach to life that has Christian, atheist, deist and theist roots, says Mark Vernon. So when it is taught in schools, what kind of approach will be adopted?

Re-assessing Turkey's faith and secularism battle

Simon Barrow — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:00:18 +0100

The real struggle in Turkey is not between the religious and the non-religious, but between those who value pluralism and those who want the victory of their ideology.

Ask tough questions about religion, says Vatican cardinal

Ecumenical News International — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:32:45 +0100

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, from the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, has said religions should be prepared to ask tough questions. He says it is unrealistic to pretend there is only one global faith.

Welcoming migrants is not optional, says world church body

agency reporter — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:16:47 +0100

Migration is a fact of life, an instinct to survive and an inevitable consequence of globalization - something we can neither turn our backs on it nor control, declared a statement of participants at a faith-led public hearing in Beirut.

Theology, science and the problem of ID

Simon Barrow — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:17:10 +0000

This paper briefly sets out the religious, philosophical and political context of both the 2007 government guidelines on science teaching and the recent report and statement of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), explaining why 'intelligent design' (ID), popular among some religious groups, is neither sound science nor good theology. It includes notes, an overview of 2005-7 Ekklesia comments on creationism and ID, and a select bibliography.

Simon Barrow

Tackling the 'credit crunch' justly

Patrick Hynes — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:28:31 +0000

Everyone is talking about the 'credit crunch'. Patrick Hynes, from Oikocredit, reflects on how access to fair finance continues to be a problem for people who are poor, and proposes a simple solution.

More thought needed on religion and schools

Press Office — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:27:44 +0000

Ekklesia has welcomed debate on how publicly funded schools should be open to pupils of all faiths and none, but has questioned the National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual report's idea of requirin