Magna Carta, religion, and freedom: Ekklesia on BBC R4

by | Dec 27, 2014

Ekklesia director Simon Barrow is taking part in a discussion of Magna Carta and religious freedom – including the issue of the disestablishment of the Church of England – on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 29th December 2014, at 4.30pm. Ekklesia director Simon...

Re-thinking Boxing Day in the foodbank society

by | Dec 26, 2014

Due not least to the ubiquity of ‘Downton Abbey’ on television this Christmas (no, I don’t, since you ask) many more people will be aware – if they weren’t already – of the background to Boxing Day (26 December). Due not least to the ubiquity...

Ten years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami

by | Dec 26, 2014

On 26 December 2004, some 250,000 people were killed when an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami wave that wiped out whole communities across south Asia. On 26 December 2004, some 250,000 people were killed when an earthquake in the Indian Ocean...

The Magi and civil disobedience to unjust authority

by | Dec 25, 2014

Thanks to Ekklesia’s Australian associate, Doug Hynd, for pointing us in the direction of an intriguing piece about civil disobedience at the heart of the nativity story – and from an unexpected source. Thanks to Ekklesia’s Australian associate, Doug...

Christmas Day: God’s birth?

by | Dec 25, 2014

What is that we are faced with when we contemplate the birth of Jesus in the east? What is that we are faced with when we contemplate the birth of Jesus in the east? For Christians the extraordinary claim is that, in the shape of this vulnerable baby conceived in...