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 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. Go to the blue buttons above, and use the drop-down menus at the top to access the archive.
This page is also a gateway to continuing activities. 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 thirty of the organisations, networks and news sources we have developed a particular affinity and connection with over the years are featured below. Please give them your support, and keep the momentum of positive change in a troubled world moving forward.
Between now and summer 2025, Ekklesia Network will also 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 and on social media.
[The latest event: our former director, Simon Barrow, is chairing a discussion of Laudato Si: Spiritual, Social, Ecological and Policy Perspectives. This takes place online from 7-9PM GMT on Wednesday 16 April 2025. Full details and booking will be available soon. An EICSP event.]
In 2025 Ekklesia Publishing will 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 by 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 35 of the many groups and networks we have collaborated with or valued over the past two decades, plus news and comment sources we have appreciated. We may 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
- WOW Voices e-book – What Disabled People Really Feel About Welfare Reform
- 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
- Global Justice Now – movement to challenge the powerful and create a more just and equal world
- Anabaptist-Mennonite Network – learning to follow the peaceful way of Jesus
- Extinction Rebellion – fair and transparent change for life on earth
- Iona Community – a dispersed Christian community working for peace and justice
- Institute for Christian Socialism – an ecumenical left opposing capitalist hegemony
- openDemocracy – crucial independent commentary and investigative reporting
- Religion Dispatches – sharp, critical and vital religion reporting and commentary
- Disability News Service – campaigning voices of disabled people themselves
- Christian Climate Action – public witness and direct action for the planet
- Novara Media – people-powered, UK-based news and comment
- Accord Coalition – campaign for inclusive education (co-founded by Ekklesia)
- MACAS – Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors
- Together With Refugees – support, solidarity and advocacy for refugees (co-sponsored by Ekklesia)
- Community Peacemaker Teams – getting in the way of war and injustice
- Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church – a transformative Christian congregation, and our former office base
- Democracy Now – independent TV, radio, and Internet news programme based in the US
- Centre for Theology and Public Issues – Edinburgh-based academic network
- New Economics Foundation – change the rules, share the wealth, save the planet
- Solas Festival – mid-Scotland event we co-sponsored for five years
- DiEM25 – people’s movement for democracy in Europe
- Quakers in Britain – faith working for equality and peace
- Thursdays in Black – global ecumenical campaign against rape and sexual violence
- CUSP Network – rethinking prosperity sustainably
- Epektasis – hope and faith in the Middle East and beyond
- Gaza news sources – truth-sourcing in the face of conflict and disinformation
- Homebrewed Christianity – first rate podcast and resources on theology and philosophy
- Zeteo – US-based media organisation, founded by Mehdi Hasan