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What is a think-tank?
2008-01-15 19:01:00 The row over government minister Peter Hain's deputy leadership election expenses, apparently siphoned through an alleged think-tank, has raised questions about what these beasts are, exactly. read more More About: Blog , Tank , Think Tank
The archbishop of YouTube
2008-01-02 02:15:00 Rowan Williams' "God doesn't do waste" New Year's message is only one of a whole host of YouTube offerings bearing his imprint. read more More About: Youtube , Environment , Blog
More big questions
2007-12-30 01:49:00 The crisis in Pakistan, human responsibility and the nature of evil, astrology, the regulation of alcohol... read more More About: Religion , Questions , Blog
Christmas greetings from Ekklesia
2007-12-24 21:48:00 Though we have wound down somewhat for Christmas tide, there i still news to report. read more More About: Blog , Ekklesia , Christmas greetings
Advent and redeeming religion
2007-12-13 08:56:00 My prize discovery of the Advent season is a website offering seasonal reflections on the lectionary derived from the insights of René Girard. read more More About: Religion , Blog , Redeem
Faithfully tackling prejudice
2007-12-04 09:58:00 Religious prejudice has hampered HIV prevention and treatment around the world, but faith groups are also a key part of the solution. read more More About: Blog , Prejudice
A profit without honour?
2007-11-30 23:17:00 While US TV evangelists talk up Mammon by using the name of Christ, an actor with no faith has been hailed a "prophet" by a leading biblical scholar for his dramatic attempts to challenge the enslaving religion of consumerism. read more More About: Blog , Profit
A little local money goes a global way
2007-11-29 17:38:00 A long-standing practical scheme for financially backing community initiatives and economic development among those on the margins of the global system is being promoted in Britain. read more More About: Money , Blog , Global , Local , Loca
Cheapside Debate on church schools
2007-11-26 12:55:00 Jonathan Bartley, co-director of Ekklesia is debating church schools with John Hall (ex-head of C of E Board of Education, now Dean of Westminster) and Jeremy Craddock, Dean of Emmanuel College Cambridge, in central London. read more More About: Church , Schools , Debate
Blasphemy law must go, says ex-archbishop
2007-11-25 12:56:00 Lord Carey of Clifton has backed Ekklesia's call for an end to the archaic and unjust blasphemy law in the UK. read more More About: Blasphemy
What a Sunday line up
2007-11-25 01:09:00 You can catch my esteemed colleague and Ekklesia co-director with a Tory MP, an ex-Archbishop and the atheist's guru on TV today. read more More About: Blog , Sunday , Line
Howard's end
2007-11-25 01:03:00 For those who know their E. M. Forster, this was the most obvious headline for the victory of Kevin Rudd in the Australia n election. But a more theological gloss is perhaps needed. read more More About: Blog
Anglicans want grace not grouching
2007-11-23 11:39:00 Members and supporters of Inclusive Church, including Ekklesia, associate Savitri Hensman, have been gathering at Swanwick to develop a vision of Anglicanism beyond in-fighting - one "drenched in grace". read more More About: Blog , Grace , Anglicans
Israeli Coalition Against House Demolitions (UK)
2007-11-23 01:18:00 As the Annopolis peace conference looms and attention turns to the geopolitical process, grassroots initiatives to bring a justpeace in Israel-Palestine continue. read more More About: House , Blog , Coalition , Peace and War , Israeli
Judgement day, but not on Jerry
2007-11-20 15:42:00 Today Stephen Green of Christian Voice, which looks very much like one man and a bandwagon, is appealing against the rejection of his attempted private prosecution of the BBC for blasphemy. read more More About: Blog , Jerry , Judgement
Liberating design
2007-11-20 14:57:00 Ekklesia's "high-traffic website, turned into a Drupal wondersite" is one of the featured sites on Eleutheria this month. read more More About: Design , Blog
Religion reporting can do your head in
2007-11-20 09:56:00 Though he met good people too, Stephen Bates, the Guardian's ex-religious affairs correspondent, says that the sheer nastiness he encountered among some believers turned him right off. read more More About: Religion , Blog , Head
Staying equally in the pink
2007-11-19 22:56:00 Understandably, there have been few in LGBT circles persuaded that the appointment of the head of the Evangelical Alliance to the new Commission on Equalities and Human Rights (CEHR) is anything other than a retrograde step. read more More About: Pink , Blog
Ethics, Christmas and Ekklesia
2007-11-14 19:42:00 The thought that Christmas will soon be upon us strikes dread as well as joy into many people. read more More About: Ethics , Blog , Ekklesia
Understanding 'the faith agenda'
2007-11-14 15:52:00 Among a vocal minority of those for whom religion is at best irrelevant and at worse an anathema, there is confusion about why government pays so much attention to faith groups. read more More About: Faith , Blog , The Faith , Agenda , Understanding
Tragedy and scripture
2007-11-13 05:50:00 Both fundamentalist believers and hardline anti-theists say that the Bible is a declaration of dogma that must either be accepted or rejected wholesale. read more More About: Tragedy , Blog , Scripture
Well, I'll IPCC it...
2007-11-08 03:03:00 The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC ) is due to publish its long awaited report into the tragic Stockwell shooting in July 2005, imminently. read more More About: Well
Religion and secularism network
2007-11-06 01:38:00 The research network on secularism and religion based at the University of Cambridge and supported by Ekklesia, among others, now has its own web presence. read more More About: Religion , Network , Blog , Secularism
The levelling power of religion
2007-11-05 14:24:00 Religion has sometimes been a friend of democracy and sometimes an enemy. It is impossible to generalise (about either religion or politics). But the 'credit' side is often overlooked in current debates. read more More About: Religion , Power , Blog
The Economist on religion
2007-11-02 12:29:00 The Economist has today (2 November 2007) published a special report which examines religion's place "in today's modern society" - the role it is likely to play in this century's politics and "how we should deal with it". But is it saying anything new? read more More About: Religion , Blog , Peace and War , The Economist
Choosing between human rights and oil
2007-11-01 09:11:00 It is wrong that "rules of law, human affairs and democracy are cast aside to worship a barrel of oil" said Mark Thomas in protesting about the Saudi state visit to the UK. read more More About: Human , Rights , Blog , Human Rights
The true plight of migrant workers
2007-11-01 07:00:00 As the debate on migration continues, Jon Cruddas argues that it needs to be located in relation to population change, service provision, housing, employment/the economy and global factors. read more More About: Workers , Blog , True , Worker
50 years of Today
2007-10-31 12:00:00 BCC Radio 4's flagship Today programme was officially fifty years old on 28 October 2007. How could we not send our congratulations? read more More About: Blog , Years
What kind of secularity?
2007-10-30 21:20:00 A discussion is taking place over on the Thinking Anglicans website, following a trenchant article by Giles Fraser in the Church Times: Is secularism neutral on faith or anti-religious? read more More About: Blog
Tracking religious illiteracy
More articles from this author:2007-10-22 02:47:00 Both in the UK and the USA, 'religion' is discussed furiously. The loudest voices, including some prominent anti-religious figures and a range of what could be called zealous religiosi, are often those least equipped for thoughtful debate - and least interested in acquiring the skills and data. read more More About: Tracking , Religious 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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