by Simon Barrow | Jan 22, 2021 | Commentary
THE WORLD TODAY faces a number of existential or near-existential threats. The climate crisis (which has repercussions in every other area of life, and hits the poorest and most vulnerable hardest) is the most prominent. The current COVID pandemic, the threat of...
by Simon Barrow | Jan 18, 2021 | Commentary
TODAY is Martin Luther King Jr Day in the United States and across the world. The annual event, which marks the civil rights leader’s birthday on 15 January 1929 (and is observed on the third Monday of January each year), has added poignancy in 2021, with the...
by Simon Barrow | Jan 17, 2021 | Update
EKKLESIA IS PLEASED to be launching its new website for a new year – our twentieth in operation as a pioneering think-tank (and now change network) on beliefs, ethics and politics. This is the fourth redesign since we appeared on the web in 2002. It also marks a...
by Simon Barrow | Jan 15, 2021 | Commentary
WHILE far-right author and broadcaster Eric Metaxas falsely invokes anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (left) to “stop the steal” in the US, genuine Bonhoeffer scholars are calling for the immediate removal of Donald Trump from office. The executive board of the...