Living without enemies: seminar and videocast

by | May 5, 2014

Theologian and Anglican clergyman Sam Wells, who among other things is a specialist on the writings and thought of doyen Anabaptist-oriented public intellectual Stanley Hauerwas, has worked with Marcia Owen in the practical Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham...

Egypt, mass death sentences and the judicial skids

by | May 3, 2014

Well over two decades ago, one of my favourite university tutors in family law often delighted in reminding me of an expression that Charles Dickens had popularised in Oliver Twist. Was it not Bumble who had professed to Brownlow that the law is an ass – or to...

Arrested for quoting Churchill?

by | May 1, 2014

If you believe the Daily Mail, then a European election candidate has been arrested “for quoting Winston Churchill”. If you believe the Daily Mail, then a European election candidate has been arrested “for quoting Winston Churchill”. It seems that Paul Weston, leader...

What about celebrating St George the Immigrant?

by | Apr 26, 2014

As Ekklesia’s 2007 report “When the Saints Go Marching Out’, reissued in 2010 (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/11944) pointed out, and as others have subsequently affirmed, St George is not primarily “an English Saint”, as popular...