inclusion

May 23, 2016

Challenge for Northern Powerhouse on proceeds of prosperity

The city regions at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse – Greater Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds – have enjoyed rising prosperity over the last few years, according to new research published on 19 May 2016.
April 8, 2016

WCC chief speaks on global security in York Minster lecture

Global security has been a key concern of the ecumenical movement for more than a century, and was in many ways integral to the very formation of the World Council of Churches. This was at the heart of a lecture given by the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in a contribution to York Minster’s lecture series Global Security and the United Nations: 70 years on.
February 4, 2016

Christians unite to campaign for LGBTI equality in Church of England

A group of Christians have come together to form the LGBTI Mission, which will campaign for the full acceptance and affirmation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people within the Church of England.
November 7, 2015

Remembering well in the cause of peace

War is failure.
April 8, 2015

Church of Scotland says more must be done to get Scots online

The Church of Scotland has highlighted the price paid by the one in five Scots households who do not have internet access.
January 25, 2014

Changing the tenor of the sexuality debate within the churches

Ekklesia has just published what Thinking Anglicans (http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk) is kind enough to call "a major commentary" on the Pilling report, written by our associate Savitri Hensman.
January 24, 2014

Edging towards accepting diversity: the Pilling Report on sexuality
May 21, 2013

Church 'issues' are about people, not abstract ideas

Ask anyone reporting or commenting on the 2013 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and they will tell you that proceedings this year are being dominated by two 'issues': the reception, or otherwise, of same-sex persons in the life and ministry of the Kirk; and later this week 'The inheritance of Abraham: A report on the promised land' (which has provoked a substantial preemptive assault by the pro-Israeli government lobby, on account of its advocacy of justice for Palestinians and Jews alike).
July 4, 2011

New databank of evidence on faith schools

The Accord Coalition which works for the reform of faith schools, and of which Ekklesia was a founder member, has published a comprehensive review of evidence on faith schools.
November 11, 2010

First UK Disability History Month

The first UK Disability History Month (DHM) will kick off in a couple of weeks time.