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A confused conversation
2008-06-09 18:52:00 The debate about the Von Hugel report on church and welfare looks as if it is heading down a familiar cul-de-sac. read more More About: Blog , Conversation
The churches and public service provision
2008-06-08 18:11:00 The new Cambridge report on church, government and public welfare (Moral, But No Compass) raises plenty of important questions - which the immediate media furore is in danger of missing or distorting. read more More About: Public Service , Churches , Public , Service , Blog
What is Faithbook, exactly?
2008-06-03 16:39:00 As far as I can figure out, it's simply another page on Facebook. And apparently, I've criticised it. read more
Making peace matter
2008-05-30 08:31:00 Ekklesia has contributed to a forthcoming book on the Christian Peace maker Teams Iraq hostage crisis and its ramifications. read more More About: Blog , Matter
A sense of vision
2008-05-30 08:12:00 I am speaking at a policy forum on 'Renewing the Vision ' - one of a national series - on Saturday 7 June, 2pm. read more More About: Sense , Blog
Progressive conservatism?
2008-05-30 06:36:00 Theologian Phillip Blond argues for a 'radical conservatism' (small and large 'C') that puts social justice and poverty at the top of its agenda. read more More About: Progressive , Blog , Conservatism
Had a great lunch today...
2008-05-29 17:43:00 ...with Jim Wallis who is over on a short tour promoting his new book Seven Ways to Change the World read more More About: Lunch , Blog , Great , Today
No truck with torture
2008-05-28 01:08:00 Amnesty is renewing its efforts to build an international consensus against torture. read more More About: Truck , Blog , Torture
Cutting state support for the churches
2008-05-14 10:44:00 The Catholic Church was once central to Spanish life. But Spain is changing ? just like its European neighbours, says the US-based international magazine, Newsweek. read more More About: Churches , Blog , Support , State , Zapatero
Australian church aid groups update on Burma
2008-05-14 00:29:00 Beneath the radar of the media Christian development groups with connections on the ground are getting on with practical relief efforts - TEAR Australia among them, says our correspondent Doug Hynd. read more More About: Church , Blog , Update , Australian , Burma
All a-twitter at Number 10
2008-05-11 12:49:00 Downing Street's microblogging team is monitoring us from the depths of the Prime Minister's bunker. read more More About: Blog , Twitter , Number
McLaren talks to Associated Press
2008-05-11 12:21:00 Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises and a Revolution of Hope, argues that Christians must work for systemic change that deals with the causes of human suffering. read more More About: Press , Blog , Associated Press
Torture not a Christian family value
2008-05-10 01:23:00 United Methodist Church minister and research psychologist Andrew J. Weaver has maintained a principled campaign against mixing Methodism and political mendacity. read more More About: Bush , Christian , Family , George W , Blog
Women's rights and religious liberty
2008-05-09 20:08:00 Rowan Williams' recent lecture on the religious grounding of universal human rights raised difficult questions about the status of women in relation to freedom for faith. read more More About: Liberty , Rights , Religious
Getting money through to Burma
2008-05-09 19:06:00 Our friend and colleague Simon Keyes at the St Ethelburga Centre for Reconciliation and Peace has a practical suggestion for supporting Burma . read more More About: Money
Distinguishing Islam and 'Islamism'
2008-05-08 17:45:00 Is it that 'new atheists' like Sam Harris simply don't understand religion (beyond assembling everything bad they know to attack it with), or is the failure to distinguish positive and negative deliberate? read more More About: Islam , Blog , Islamism
The first non-evangelical evangelical president?
2008-05-08 17:36:00 Over on the Wall Street Journal blog, Steven Waldman president and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com, has some interesting things to say about Barack Obama and the evangelical vote. read more More About: President , Blog , Evangelical
Carter on the Gaza tragedy
2008-05-08 12:58:00 Ex-US President Jimmy Cater, now devoting his time to human rights and peace work, has condemned as a "crime" the treatment of people in Gaza . read more More About: Tragedy , Blog , Peace and War , Carter
JustPeace60 declaration
2008-05-07 10:25:00 The 8 May is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel - something that has occasioned both great hope and great despair. read more More About: Declaration , Blog , Peace and War
Obama, Wright and wrong
2008-05-07 09:23:00 The Democratic presidential contest has been getting ugly. And Barack Obama 's church ties have become both a boon and a bane. read more More About: Blog , Wrong , Wright
Seeing both the positive and negative in religion
2008-05-07 00:13:00 Much of the current public discourse on 'religion' assumes that 'it' (actually a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon) is either a good or a bad thing per se. read more More About: Religion , Europe , Blog , Positive , Negative
Making your money count
2008-05-06 23:34:00 Next week is Christian Aid Week. The aim is to raise money, but also awareness of the way the poorest are hit hardest by 'natural disasters'. read more More About: Money , Blog , Count
Further hearing over BAE-Saudi corruption enquiry
2008-04-22 03:38:00 A short 'relief hearing' will take place at 10.00am on 23 April at the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London, following the High Court judgment which held that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had acted unlawfully by cutting short a corruption investigation into arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. read more More About: Corruption , Hearing
How religion infuses and confuses US politics
2008-04-22 03:31:00 Barack Obama recently got into trouble for suggesting that alienated rural voters in Pennsylvania seek refuge in religion, rifles and rejection of outsiders. read more More About: Politics , Religion , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Blog
Re-assessing Turkey's faith and secularism battle
2008-04-22 03:00:00 The real struggle in Turkey is not between the religious and the non-religious, but between those who value pluralism and those who want the victory of their ideology. read more More About: Faith , Blog , Secularism , Battle
The High Court, BAE and media massaging
2008-04-10 22:29:00 The success of arms trade campaigners in bringing the judicial review in which the High Court has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office and UK government acted illegally in dropping a corruption investigation against BAE Systems, under pressure from the Saudis, is a major achievement read more More About: Media , Blog , Peace and War
The Obama preacher controversy
2008-03-28 10:09:00 The former pastor of Barack Obama has been accused of extremism for his views on 9/11, the US and terrorism. But he has been defended by a leading moderate commentator. read more More About: Blog , Controversy , Preacher
Networking democracy
2008-03-25 19:37:00 OurKingdom, a project of the online magazine OpenDemocracy , is hosting what it believes to be a unique online deliberation on how the potential of the internet can be integrated into a national political process. read more More About: Networking , Blog
Anabaptist voice from down under
2008-03-24 14:30:00 Doug Hynd's weblog 'Subversive Voice s' ("Reflections on politics, public policy, theology and culture, informed by the radical tradition of Christian witness") has been added to our roll (see right hand column, toward the foot of the page). read more
Accounting for the hope within
More articles from this author:2008-03-24 14:04:00 Ekklesia's friends and associates are a varied bunch - Anabaptist, Catholic, Evangelical, liberal, Protestant, radical and more. Here Theo Hobson tells it like it is for him. read more More About: Blog , Hope , Accounting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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