The uses of memory: looking beyond chocolate bars

The Blood Swept Land and Seas of Red installation is gone from the Tower of London. The disputes over white poppies and the British Legion’s misuse of Eric Bogle’s ‘Green Fields of France’ have died away. But in this centenary year of the start...

Different visions of Scotland’s future

A public roundtable discussion of ‘Scotland: Our Visions and Divisions’, chaired by Allan Little (BBC), will take place on Wednesday 19th November, 6:00pm – 7:15pm in the Martin Hall, New College, the University of Edinburgh, EH1 2LX (followed by a...

Women bishops welcome step but culture still needs to change

The Church of England has taken the final step in allowing women as well as men to be chosen as bishops (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/21059). General synod members, meeting in London, voted by a show of hands that “A man or a woman may be consecrated to the office...

Manchester lecture: disabled church, disabled society

A talk on ‘Disabled Church: Disabled Society’, by Ekklesia associate the Rev Dr John Gillibrand takes place at 7pm at Manchester Cathedral on Tuesday 18th November 2014. A talk on ‘Disabled Church: Disabled Society’, by Ekklesia associate the...