by Simon Barrow | Apr 24, 2023 | Commentary
WHEN Extinction Rebellion was being set up in the summer of 2018, Ekklesia was not quite as fast at getting on board as we could and should have been. Not because we didn’t see the urgency of the issues and the need for nonviolent direct action (NVDA, which we...
by Simon Barrow | Apr 23, 2023 | Update
TODAY is St George’s Day, and a number of Ekklesia’s supporters and readers have referenced the report we first produced in 2007 (re-issued in 2009 and 2010), calling for the ‘rebranding’ of St George away from a narrow and often reactionary or...
by Simon Barrow | Apr 10, 2023 | Commentary
ONE OF THE oft-repeated catch phrases from the earliest phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the wake of the first lockdown in March 2020 (which was a huge shock to all of us), was “we can’t return to the ‘old normal’.” There was a palpable sense, for a time,...
by Simon Barrow | Apr 10, 2023 | Update
TO ALL FRIENDS of Ekklesia, we wish you a very happy Easter, wherever you are and whatever shapes your life and commitment towards justice, peace and sustainability for all on this beautiful, fragile, wounded planet. As Christians across the globe proclaim...
by Simon Barrow | Apr 7, 2023 | Commentary
TO A SIGNIFICANT extent, what could be called the life of the spirit – the invitation to reconsider the world and each other through the eyes of love and fresh possibility – is a life of imagination. By that, I do not mean fantasy or wishful thinking, but rather the...
