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  • 24 Aug 2011
    The duty of listening

    "The right to speak is a call to the duty of listening." These words of the Quaker writer Pierre Lacout should be placed in letters five feet tall on the walls of all broadcasting studios.

  • 16 Feb 2008
    Solving a problem like Sharia?

    Though the headlines have receded, the blogopshere is still buzzing with the fall out of the Rowan Williams / Sharia 'debate'. More thoughtful material is now emerging.

  • 5 Feb 2008
    Religion is the greatest threat to scientific progress and rationality that we face today - ReThink debates

    For: Professor Daniel Dennett, Director, Center for Cognitive Studies Tufts University.

  • 26 Nov 2007
    Cheapside Debate on church schools

    Jonathan Bartley, co-director of Ekklesia is debating church schools with John Hall (ex-head of C of E Board of Education, now Dean of Westminster) and Jeremy Craddock, Dean of Emmanuel College Cambri

  • 26 Nov 2007
    Cheapside Debate on church schools

    Jonathan Bartley, co-director of Ekklesia is debating church schools with John Hall (ex-head of C of E Board of Education, now Dean of Westminster) and Jeremy Craddock, Dean of Emmanuel College Cambridge, in central London.

  • 5 Dec 2006
    Archbishop of Canterbury says nuclear arms debate must go on

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that the publication of the UK government's White Paper (formal legislative proposal) on replacement of the controversial Trident nuclear weapons programme should not be used to close down the debate - but to open it up around recognised issues of major concern.