by Savitri Hensman | May 31, 2023 | Commentary
RECENT NEWS HEADLINES offer an alarming glimpse of how the UK is run. This includes government ministers repeatedly bending and possibly breaking rules, overriding checks and balances and pushing through policies which inflict huge harm, especially on the most...
by Jill Segger | May 27, 2023 | Commentary
“GANAWA BACK! GA FARDER OOT!” If you walk the Lakeland fells, you may hear these cries from a shepherd directing a dog as it gathers a swirling mass of Herdwicks and guides them towards a gate or sheepfold. Those words have become a lockdown measuring rod for me. The...
by Jill Segger | May 14, 2023 | Commentary
THE TUMULT and the shouting has died. And though the captains and the kings may not have departed, they have, for the present, disappeared from our screens. The power-pageant of throne and altar has rightly been much anatomised and discussed, both in these pages and...
by Simon Barrow | May 6, 2023 | Commentary
THE CENTRAL ROLE of the Church of England in today’s Coronation at Westminster Abbey is a vivid reminder of the extent to which a Church established by law under the Crown can still be relied upon to bless, sacralise, mystify and exalt a status quo rooted in wealth,...
by Pam Webster | Apr 24, 2023 | Commentary
MY FEELINGS during the periods of Covid lockdown were probably quite different to most people. For me it was life-enhancing and felt like a leveller. Everyone thought more about what germs they might be passing on to someone and home became the orbit of more people....
by Simon Barrow | Apr 24, 2023 | Commentary
WHEN Extinction Rebellion was being set up in the summer of 2018, Ekklesia was not quite as fast at getting on board as we could and should have been. Not because we didn’t see the urgency of the issues and the need for nonviolent direct action (NVDA, which we...
