by Bernadette Meaden | Apr 8, 2024 | Commentary
EVERY CHILD born in the UK, whatever their circumstances, is a member of our society. Society has a choice – we can do our best to support and nurture those children, to help them grow into healthy, happy adults, or we can turn our backs on them, allow them to...
by Rosemary Brien | Mar 27, 2024 | Commentary
ISSUES around gender identity, wider equality, law and policy have been much in the news recently. A Scottish government attempt to overturn the UK government veto of a bill to make it easier to change legal gender failed. But Scotland’s leaders are pressing ahead...
by Harry Hagopian | Mar 22, 2024 | Commentary
I DECIDED several weeks ago that it was time to write another article for Ekklesia, following a long absence from its web pages. Ekklesia published my second book in 2019, and may hopefully be able to produce an edited and updated second edition in the near future. So...
by Jill Segger | Mar 6, 2024 | Commentary
WAR, violence, a climate crisis. Cruelty, deceit, self-interest, division and corruption. There is a great deal of darkness in our world. There is much to make us despairing and cynical. It is easy to lose a grip on hope, to cease to believe that there may be goodness...
by Bernadette Meaden | Mar 4, 2024 | Commentary
WHY has the election of a single MP in a northern town got the political and media establishment so rattled – and why now? George Galloway has been elected as an MP several times in the past, and his election then did not elicit such a reaction. His character and...
by Savitri Hensman | Feb 5, 2024 | Commentary
THE ISRAELI STATE has continued to kill, injure and displace civilians on a major scale. Its international military backers, primarily the US government but also that of the UK and others, kept calling for restraint. Yet – long after it was clear such calls would not...