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  • October 31, 2006
    Peace and War

    Ekklesia proposes non-violent alternatives to military action as well as peace-making strategies. Ekklesia hit the headlines in 2002 by proposing public consideration of strategies for non-violent regime change in Iraq.

  • June 26, 2017
    Poverty, mysticism, action and the occasional bottle of wine

    One of the first things Pope Francis said on his election four years ago was to wish that the church would be “a poor church for the poor”.

  • June 6, 2017
    Children at risk as battle for Mosul intensifies

    UNICEF says 100,000 children are at risk in Mosul, as the battle with ISIS forces intensifies

  • October 11, 2016
    Refugee Council marks World Mental Health Day

    The British Psychoanalytic Council and UK Council for Psychotherapy have teamed up with the Refugee Council to support this year’s World Mental Health Day.

  • July 6, 2016
    Chilcot - the saddest truth

    As the Chilcot report was released, bereaved relatives of soldiers who died in Iraq uttered terrible truths.

  • December 8, 2015
    George Osborne: 'Britain has got its mojo back'

    Some MPs who voted to bomb Syria may have done so with reluctance or misgivings.

  • December 25, 2014
    How to remember war so as to invest in peace
  • October 20, 2014
    The little things: combining for change

    Ebola, war, terrorism, injustice, inequality, squalid government, torture. Sometimes the inventory of cruelty and suffering seems overwhelming. The temptation to spiral into despair and the cynicism born of helplessness can assail us all. But sometimes a glimmer comes in the darkness and smallness no longer seems to equal futility.

  • October 7, 2014
    Running for the future: the world we are trying to build

    When my twin sister and I were very sick with the measles, aged six, it didn’t even occur to me that a home visit from the doctor was anything less than our due. I bet it occurred to my parents though. Having grown up in a world without the NHS, I bet they were grateful that they didn’t have to think about how to pay the doctor for his trouble, or for the medicines he left that helped relieve our symptoms and reduce the fever that was undoubtedly causing them concern.

  • June 10, 2014
    Baptism as a gateway to rethinking conflict transformation?

    Questions of war and peace are sometimes seen by Christians as somewhat separate from core gospel convictions, and are pigeon holed as issues upon which we will differ 'on ethical grounds'.