Ekklesia has ceased its work as a think-tank and as a daily provider of news briefings as of September 2024. But its book publishing operation, a newsletter, and an informal network via social media will be maintained independently.
This website is a gateway to those activities, but also a substantial online archive of the great majority of the material we published from 2002, when we were founded. It comprises some 30,000 pages, including all our reports and news briefing.
Please click the three blue-box links above, or search the drop down menus for our complete archive. Ekklesia Publishing has its website here. The newsletter, Illuminations, is available here. Stay part of our network on social media via X/Twitter and our Facebook page and group.
Links to a number of organisations and networks we have had a particular affinity and connection with over the years are featured below.
Between now and summer 2025, Ekklesia Network will be co-sponsoring a final series of events to honour the work of the past nearly quarter century in highlighting fresh, transformative approaches to peace, justice and sustainability in a challenging C21st. More information will follow here, in the newsletter and on social media.
In 2025 Ekklesia Publishing will also be making available a collection of new essays, material from our work over the past two decades, and signposts for the future. This will be entitled Thinking Without Tanks: Beliefs, Politics and Ethics Reconsidered.
We are still open to our think-tank and/or news briefing work being picked up and continued suitable partners in the future. If you are interested, please write via the Illuminations newsletter, which is maintained by our director from 2005-2024, Simon Barrow.
Lastly, a huge thank-you to all who have contributed to the activity, work and provocations of Ekklesia over the past 22 years, both paid and (mostly!) unpaid. Our founder, Jonathan Bartley, deserves particular mention, along with our associates past and present, former staff and contributors.
We could not have done it without you!
LINKS FOR KEEPING HOPE AND CHANGE ALIVE
Here are some of the many groups and networks we have collaborated with over the past two decades. We will add to and change this list from time-to-time.
- Network of Christian Peace Organisations – UK-based ecumenical network (to which Ekklesia Network is still connected)
- Citizens Network Research – think tank advancing citizenship for all
- Common Weal – advocacy and research for social and economic equality in Scotland and beyond
- The 99% Organisation – peaceful and creative action against poverty
- Compassion in Politics – changing politics for good
- World Council of Churches – on the way together for unity and justice
- Center for Action and Contemplation – reflective wisdom and active change
- Anabaptist-Mennonite Network – learning to follow the peaceful way of Jesus
- Extinction Rebellion – fair and transparent change for life on earth
- Accord Coalition – for inclusive education (co-founded by Ekklesia)
- Together With Refugees – support, solidarity and advocacy for refugees
- Community Peacemaker Teams – getting in the way of war and injustice
- Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church – a transformative Christian congregation, and our former office base
- Centre for Theology and Public Issues – Edinburgh-based network
- Solas Festival – mid-Scotland event we co-sponsored for five years
- Quakers in Britain – faith working for equality and peace
- CUSP Network – rethinking prosperity sustainably
- Epektasis – hope and faith in the Middle East and beyond