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  • 13 Apr 2013
    Margaret Thatcher: her legacy, her funeral and our future

    That a politician as divisive as Margaret Thatcher should polarise opinion in death is probably not surprising. Unfortunately, responses on both sides of the divide have done little but entrench bitterness and have pointed yet again to the sterile confrontationalism of so much of our politics.

  • 25 Oct 2012
    Make pensioners keep working, peer urges

    People over retirement age should be required to do community work or lose some of their pension, urged former Benefits Agency head Lord Bichard.

  • 24 Oct 2012
    'Incentivising' pensioners: Lord Bichard and the fifth commandment

    Today (24 October), a man with a substantial pension and a seat in the Lords demonstrated either his ignorance of, or indifference to, values which almost all cultures understand as underpinning the cohesion of a decent society.

  • 14 Apr 2011
    Public space and the Golden Rule

    Public and private spaces impose differing obligations. That statement might seem so obvious as to be otiose. But many people seem to be unaware that the sharing of space necessitates the exercise of a restraint which manifests and nourishes the mutuality without which any concept of society - big or otherwise - is impoverished.

  • 10 Dec 2010
    40 years of the Society, Religion and Technology Project

    Since it was established in 1970 the Church of Scotland’s Society, Religion and Technology (SRT) Project has made a significant contribution not just to the life of one particular church and its capacity to comment on demanding issues in society, but also to public debates about science, technology and ethics generally, says Mary Anson.

  • 11 Jan 2008
    Rethinking religion in an open society
  • 8 Jan 2008
    Religion, state, and society

    Religion, Discrimination and Accommodation: the Role of the State in a Multi-Faith Society

  • 29 Nov 2007
    Prize-winning writer describes pitfalls of modern reporting on religion

    Journalists writing stories on religion that are then put into other languages face constant pitfalls of being 'lost in translation', says the editor who has won the John Templeton Award for the European Religion Writer of the Year.

  • 17 Apr 2007
    Question Time - Tackling Social Issues from a Faith Perspective

    A panel discussion and question time on social issues form a variety of faith perspectives.

  • 31 Oct 2006
    Religion and Society

    Much of Ekklesia’s media work is in the area of the relationship between religion and society. In 2006, Ekklesia’s director Jonathan Bartley published the book; “Faith and Politics After Christ