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  • 1 Jan 2013
    New Year greetings from Ekklesia: looking back and ahead

    Ekklesia's staff, associates and contributors extend warm New Year greetings to all who have read, engaged with and supported us in 2012.

  • 26 Dec 2012
    Ekklesia over Christmas and into the New Year

    Ekklesia's daily email bulletin will be formally taking a break from 24th December 2012 through to Thursday 3rd January, with the possibility of one instalment between Christmas and the New Year.

  • 17 Mar 2011
    Getting positively critical about 'religion'

    Academics at the University of Stirling, and the beliefs and values think-tank Ekklesia, have teamed up to promote a new research agenda and blog entitled Critical Religion, which aims to put hot topics under a careful spotlight.

  • 30 Apr 2009
    Religion and society think-tank continues expansion

    Symon Hill is to join Ekklesia as associate director from 1 June 2009, enabling what the think-tank describes as "a continued expansion" of its work in "creatively re-thinking the role of religion in contemporary society."

  • 19 Oct 2007
    Specifying the "ekk^lesia"

    Our friend Deirdre Good, Professor of New Testament at General Theological Seminary, New York, USA, has a post which is of natural interest to us on her fine blog ...

  • 17 Oct 2007
    Learning to think without tanks

    Ekklesia is a think tank that promotes fresh forms of thought - without relying on tanks. In an interview with SCM, Simon Barrow explains what the deal is with post-Christendom and how to respond to the fuss about religion.

  • 7 Sep 2007
    BBC launches major new TV show on belief and ethics today

    The BBC is launching a new major TV programme called The Big Questions this weekend. Its aim is to move the discussion of diverse beliefs and ethics out of a narrow 'religion' bracket, and to respond creatively to the debates taking place in modern Britain.

  • 24 Jul 2007
    Crusades? No problem...

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, a Daily Telegraph writer is less than impressed with the notion that there could be a Christian problem with religious violence per se, not just Muslim versions of it.

  • 13 Mar 2007
    Church leaders, equality rules and a 'new morality'
  • 10 Mar 2007
    Ministerial aide resigns over Trident replacement

    Scottish MP Jim Devine will now vote against the government and a pro-nuclear bishop is questioned on his views