by Jill Segger | Dec 13, 2021 | Commentary
WAITING CAN BE DIFFICULT. In a time of near-instant communications and even quicker opinions, it is a state of being which is under threat. Waiting – in non-emergency situations – is seen as negative, even to some, as a form of insult. To understand it as an essential...
by Bernadette Meaden | Dec 2, 2021 | Commentary
CONSERVATIVES LIKE TO PRETEND that poverty is complicated. They insist that it’s not just a question of low wages and inadequate social security, but more an issue of personal responsibility. Indeed, as he embarked on his damaging welfare ‘reforms’ in 2012, Iain...
by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 26, 2021 | Commentary
FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE the message of the nativity, Christmas can never be cancelled, nor indeed saved, by a politician. But perhaps our celebration of it really does need to change. For many people, it has become a stressful season of pressure to spend money they...
by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 7, 2021 | Commentary
WHEN THEY CAME HOME at the end of the First World War, many ex-servicemen faced poverty and unemployment, and their anger led to civil unrest. On Peace Day 1919, Luton Town Hall was burned to the ground. Indeed the Summer of 1919 is now known to some historians as...
by Jill Segger | Nov 3, 2021 | Commentary
WHEN I FIRST came to work for Ekklesia in 2009, I was anxious to make clear that I am not a policy analyst. Though anyone writing about current affairs must obviously have a grasp of current policies and their possible developments, I felt it necessary to establish...
by Savitri Hensman | Oct 25, 2021 | Commentary
VARIOUS RELIGIOUS LEADERS have thrown their weight behind a draft bill targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people in Ghana and anyone supportive of them. Backers includes the Anglican Church in Ghana’s House of Bishops . Yet the bill violates not...
