by Iain Lothian | Sep 6, 2024 | Commentary
I RECENTLY SUPPORTED a Palestinian doctor who was arrested and charged at a rally while peacefully protesting against the war on Gaza. Outside the court I talked to his wife. She asked me what I did. I told her I was a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church, and then...
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 | 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 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,...
by Bernadette Meaden | Aug 29, 2024 | Commentary
IN almost everything I have written for Ekklesia for more than a decade, there has been one underlying theme – austerity. Whether it is poverty, hunger, the housing crisis, the state of the NHS or our prisons, roads and schools, the fundamental cause of all the...
