Sex, violence and Margaret Thatcher

The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is generally considered a ‘slow news’ period by the media, as not much is happening (in reality of course, lots of things are happening; just not the sort of things that most editors tend to consider...

Update: Christmas and New Year on Ekklesia

Ekklesia is continuing to operate over the holiday period, but in a slightly modified way. Ekklesia is continuing to operate over the holiday period, but in a slightly modified way. The weekly bulletin is on a slightly different schedule because of staff being away or...

Same-sex marriages a cause for celebration

Commenting on the first same-sex wedding ceremonies in Scotland (31 December 2014), Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think tank Ekklesia, which has put forward the Christian case for marriage equality in recent years, said: “This is a...

Poverty, malnourishment and Pecksniffery

Recently (28 December 2014) the Independent newspaper published a piece outlining some of the reasons why millions of Britons cannot afford a diet that will keep them healthily nourished. Recently (28 December 2014) the Independent newspaper published a piece...

What kind of society do we want?

With George Osborne promising to return public spending to the level of the 1930s, it would be useful to remind ourselves what life was like for the average British citizen in that era. With George Osborne promising to return public spending to the level of the 1930s,...