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  • 31 Oct 2006
    Life and Death

    Ekklesia has written about and been quoted on the issue of ‘disability’ abortions. Comments have also been made about frozen embryos, euthanasia and living wills.

  • 13 Apr 2013
    Margaret Thatcher: her legacy, her funeral and our future

    That a politician as divisive as Margaret Thatcher should polarise opinion in death is probably not surprising. Unfortunately, responses on both sides of the divide have done little but entrench bitterness and have pointed yet again to the sterile confrontationalism of so much of our politics.

  • 29 Jul 2012
    Calf Cop and the still dews of quietness

    This morning I took part in Meeting for Worship in the small 18th century Friends Meeting House at Calf Cop in North Yorkshire. Situated in that area known to Quakers as '1652 country' where the borders of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria come within a few miles of each other, the Meeting House stands in a quiet burial ground bordered by pine trees and looks across an open landscape to the massive flat-topped mountain of Ingleborough.

  • 23 Mar 2012
    Forest burials gain popularity among German Christians

    For the last decade, Germans have tapped into their nation's feelings for its ancient forests and chosen a final resting place in a woodland gravesite.

  • 3 Nov 2011
    Japanese religious bodies discuss suicide and 'voluntary death'

    A Japanese interfaith symposium has explored the attitudes of religious communities to suicide, including the meaning of the term "voluntary death".

  • 6 May 2011
    Christians should not shy away from death issues, say Methodists

    The President of the Methodist Conference has said that a faith which shies away from the issue of death is "neither real nor relevant" in today's world.

  • 5 May 2011
    Celebrating death (even Bin Laden's) demeans our humanity

    So President Obama has decided that he will not release the image of Osama bin Laden’s body. The reason, he says, is that it could be used for propaganda purposes by terrorist organisations. How about the fact that making public the blood-stained and damaged body of a human being is just plain unpleasant, undignified and quite wrong?

  • 2 May 2011
    Christians do not rejoice in any death, says Vatican over bin Laden

    The Vatican has said that a Christian “never rejoices” in the face of someone’s death, even if that person has committed heinous crimes.

  • 14 Apr 2011
    Where is God amid the suffering?

    In a reflection which is both global and deeply personal in its implications, Savi Hensman looks, in the light of recent painful personal experience, at the age-old question of God and suffering.

  • 30 Jul 2009
    Purdy welcomes new Lords ruling on assisted dying, not suicide

    In a landmark ruling from the House of Lords, the final appeal court in the UK, a woman with multiple sclerosis has won her court battle to have the law on assisted dying clarified.