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  • 3 Oct 2006
    Church schools policy 'un-Christian'

    Responding to the latest statement from the Church of England on admissions policy for faith schools, the UK Christian think tank Ekklesia has said that the Church's stance is “wholly inadequate” and that “using church-going as a way of assigning publicly-funded school places is wrong and un- Christian in principle.”

  • 29 Sep 2006
    Joint call on DfES to rule out 'creationist' teaching

    The UK Christian think tank Ekklesia and the British Humanist Association have today written to Education Minister Alan Johnson asking him to ensure that their guidelines are explicit in requiring teachers to maintain a wholly scientific perspective on the matter of the origin of species by evolution.

  • 22 Sep 2006
    'Christendom' ideology is barrier to improved Christian-Muslim relations

    The continuing confusion of Christianity with the dominant assumptions and institutions of Western society is one of the main barriers to improved relations with Muslims, the UK think tank Ekklesia has suggested today.

  • 18 Sep 2006
    Christians equipped to reimagine 'church'

    A training course, believed to be the first to combine urban mission and church planting, is to equip participants to develop new and creative forms of church such as 'cafe churches', peace churches, virtual churches, new monastic communities and churches for the socially excluded.

  • 15 Sep 2006
    Religious think tank becomes Jesus' first 'friend' on Myspace

    The religious thinktank Ekklesia has become the very first 'friend' of Jesus, on the Internet phenomenon Myspace.

  • 25 Jul 2006
    Government should stop propping up religion

    The present situation where churches seek government support in areas like education, and government uses faith groups to prop up its own social agenda, is unhealthy for all concerned, says Ekklesia.

  • 3 Jul 2006
    Faith and Politics standoff a 'dead end' says new book

    Current ideas about the relationship between faith and politics ‚Ä' both among believers and secularists ‚Ä' are ‚Äúhopelessly stuck‚Äù in a confrontation which is ‚Äúas deadly as it is mistaken‚Äù, says the UK Christian think tank Ekklesia ‚Ä' which is launching a book proposing a ‚Äúradical new approach‚Äù.

  • 17 Jun 2006
    Religious think-tank suggests the abolition of marriage

    In the light of current arguments within church and state over the definitions of marriage, civil partnerships and other live-in relationships, the Christian think-tank Ekklesia is suggesting that 'serious consideration' should be given to the abolition of legal 'marriage' and its replacement by a variety of civil partnerships through which couples could specify the type of legal commitment they wished to make to one another.

  • 14 Jun 2006
    Churches should not force school worship

    The UK Christian-think tank Ekklesia has said that the latest call from the Church of England and other denominations for more emphasis on legally- enforced ‘collective worship' in English schools is misplaced.

  • 12 Jun 2006
    Archbishop wrong on cohabitees’ rights says Christian think-tank

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has been challenged about his view that the extension of legal rights to cohabiting couples may undermine the institution of marriage.