by Simon Barrow | Sep 6, 2024 | Update
IN HIS NEW BOOK, God the Child: Small, Weak and Curious Subversions (SCM Press, 2024), Graham Adams follows up his ground-breaking Holy Anarchy: Dismantling Domination, Embodying Community, Loving Strangeness with a book which turns our thinking about the divine...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 6, 2024 | Briefing
AMNESTY International has launched a new book on children’s rights for primary school pupils. The book, These Rights Are Your Rights, is released as children return to school and ahead of the Government’s review of the national curriculum, which starts this month....
by Agency Reporter | Sep 6, 2024 | Briefing
LOW-PAID workers are most likely to lose their jobs during downturns, be employed on a zero-hours contract and miss out on sick pay if they fall ill, so should gain most from the Government’s proposed shake-up of Britain’s workplaces. But the reforms will require...
by Doug Hynd | Sep 5, 2024 | Commentary
* Jason Blakely, Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life (Agenda Publishing, 2024). IDEOLOGIES are not simply the crazed beliefs of your political foes. They are cultural traditions; they are world-making maps; they are liquid, narrative and ethically...
by Simon Barrow | Sep 5, 2024 | Update
EKKLESIA PUBLISHING was established in 2015/16 and has so far produced fifteen titles (including two currently in production), with a number of others in process for 2025. Though Ekklesia’s think-tank and news briefing services have ended, and the limited...
by Simon Barrow | Sep 5, 2024 | Commentary
OVER THE YEARS Ekklesia has received and requested books on an extraordinarily wide range of topics, which we have passed out to reviewers with particular and specialist knowledge. These have demonstrated that our approach to transformations in the areas of beliefs,...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 5, 2024 | Briefing
THE HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND was introduced to enable local authorities in England to help vulnerable households unable to meet essential living costs. It was due to close at the end of September, but has been extended to April 2025. The Salvation Army is calling for...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 5, 2024 | Briefing
FOR the first time, analysis has revealed a detailed picture of social segregation in England’s schools at a local level. It shows a pattern of some schools accepting fewer students from low-income backgrounds than live in their catchment areas, while other schools...
by Jill Segger | Sep 4, 2024 | Commentary
OVER the past 15 years, I have written several hundred thousand words of comment on these pages. My view of a writing life based around journalism is that it begins with reportage, moves to comment, and that comment eventually begins to merge with reflection. None of...
by Simon Barrow | Sep 4, 2024 | Commentary
John 6:51-58; Psalm 34:9-14; Proverbs 9:1-6; Ephesians 5:15-20 “I am the living bread that comes from God. Whoever eats this bread will live eternally” (John 6:51). SOME YEARS AGO, the ecumenical development agency Christian Aid (with whom, I am delighted to say,...
