IN a new publication from UCL Policy Lab and Hertford College, Oxford, leading figures from British diplomacy and international development, including the former Cabinet Secretary Lord Mark Sedwill, ...

PASSIONTIDE IS OVER NOW, for both the Eastern and Western churches. Even for those of us who take no part in the offices of the Great Week, it can be a strange and gruelling time. Every year, I make ...

Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, just and devout… and the Holy Spirit rested upon him (Luke 2: 25). ACCORDING TO TRADITIONS that go back to the fourth and fifth centuries in the ...

THE UK government’s flagship counter-terrorism policy Prevent is “fundamentally incompatible” with the country’s international human rights obligations. says Amnesty International It ...

A NEW Institute for Government paper says the next government must extend the English devolution map to at least 85 per cent of the population to tackle the economic underperformance of England’s ...

THE HUMAN ONE: Paintings that explore the Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, the Christ is an exhibition of the work of Jeremy Thomas, artist in residence at St. Mary’s Priory in Abergavenny. I ...

THE REV HELEN CAMERON was elected and inducted as President of the Methodist Conference on Saturday 29 June at the Methodist Conference in Leeds. Helen Cameron is currently the Moderator of the Free ...

URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED to tackle low take up of the UK Government’s Healthy Start voucher scheme, as new analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) reveals that nearly 150,000 eligible ...

THERE are too many ‘complicating factors’ for Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide (AD/AS) to be implemented safely, finds a new poll of the British public. The poll’s findings show that behind the ...

WE ARE grateful to our friends at Christians for Palestine for producing a moving set of meditations and prayers for Gaza, using the traditional form of the Stations of the Cross, which depict Jesus’s ...

Ekklesia works on a not-for-profit, co-operative basis and does not accept funding from large individual donors or from the Churches, so that it can maintain its independence. Ekklesia works on a ...

A NEW report by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and Demilitarise Education (dED) reveals that privatisation, the academic funding crisis, and commercialisation of universities has led to growing ...