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 ...

IN LETTING GO of Ekklesia’s think-tank, regular commentary and news service activities after heading towards a quarter of a century, we are not quite saying ‘that’s it’. Our publishing continues, ...

In the letter, they decare: “A priority should be the Climate and Nature Bill which is science-based and is winning more and more supporters. In June we joined 60,000 marchers from 350 organisations ...

GRATITUDE is a vital component of hope. It is the food that sustains us in good and tough times alike. So we are immensely grateful to all who have contributed to the activity, work, thought and ...

EKKLESIA PUBLISHING was established in 2015/16 and has so far produced fifteen titles (including two currently in production), with a number of others in process for 2025. Though Ekklesia’s think-tank ...

OVER the past 15 years, I have written several hundred thousand words of comment on these pages. My view of a writing life based around journalism is that it begins with reportage, moves to comment, ...

IN almost everything I have written for Ekklesia for more than a decade, there has been one underlying theme – austerity. Whether it is poverty, hunger, the housing crisis, the state of the NHS or our ...

TWENTY-TWO YEARS after our founding in 2002, Ekklesia will be ceasing its work as a think-tank and a daily provider of news briefings after the week commencing 9 September 2024 – but we are pleased to ...

TRANSPORT ACTION NETWORK (TAN) has welcomed the publication of the Rail and urban transport review, led by Juergen Maier. The review was commissioned by Labour when in opposition, to help the UK ...

NEW RESEARCH from Citizens Advice reveals that one in four people (25 per cent, the equivalent of 16.5 million people) are so worried about increases in energy costs that they say they will be forced ...

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 ...

IN the report of Module 1 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Hallett says that the public health, NHS and social care sectors’ capacity to respond to the pandemic was constrained by funding, and ...