by Simon Barrow | Oct 29, 2021 | Update
IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE to join with some 60 others in the opening stages of this weekend’s liberation theology conference at Sunderland Minster, hosted by the Rev Chris Howson, Lisa Murphy SCM and the Victor Jara Liberation Theologies and Sunderland Interfaith...
by Simon Barrow | Jul 1, 2021 | Update
THE NEWS THAT the US television star Bill Cosby, convicted of sexual assault and rape, is to be set free not because he is innocent, but because of a previous deal he struck where he admitted in a deposition to drugging women, is shocking and shameful. The Montcopa...
by Simon Barrow | Jun 20, 2021 | Update
ALTHOUGH Ekklesia does not have any associates in Northern Ireland at present, we are pleased to have policy and political analyst Peter McColl among a number of new and recent contributors to our comment section. Peter wrote a good, short explainer on the situation...
by Simon Barrow | May 6, 2021 | Commentary
WITH THE POLLS shortly set to close on national, regional and local elections in Scotland, Wales and England (plus the Hartlepool by-election, mayoral choices, and voting for police and crime commissioners in England and Wales), most will have cast their ballot or...
by Simon Barrow | Mar 20, 2021 | Commentary
THE QUESTION OF whether, why and how the Church of England should be disestablished (and what this means) may seem a rather quaint one, especially given the other ructions facing the increasingly disunited kingdom we are part of right now. But I believe it still...
