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  • April 5, 2015
    Jesus and the tomb-dweller: lifting death’s shadow

    Savi Hensman reflects upon Jesus' encounter with a deeply disturbed and isolated man and poses questions as to its meaning for the church and society of our own time.

  • January 28, 2015
    Undergraduates reflect on 'Jesus and politics'

    Ekklesia co-director Jonathan Bartley, author of 'Faith and Politics After Christendom (Paternoster Press), is a keynote speaker at an undergraduate day at Oasis College of Higher Education in London on Wednesday 28 January 2015.

  • December 25, 2014
    The Magi and civil disobedience to unjust authority

    Thanks to Ekklesia's Australian associate, Doug Hynd, for pointing us in the direction of an intriguing piece about civil disobedience at the heart of the nativity story - and from an unexpected source.

  • December 25, 2014
    Christmas Day: God's birth?

    What is that we are faced with when we contemplate the birth of Jesus in the east?

  • November 13, 2014
    Powerful Christian debate on war and peace… where next?

    As part of its ongoing work on Remembrance, peacemaking and the investment of churches and civil society groups in alternatives to armed conflict, Ekklesia was delighted to sponsor a conversation on 12 November 2014 looking the justification of war alongside opposition to war, violence and nonviolence in the Christian tradition.

  • October 3, 2014
    Who would Jesus shoot? A debate

    This is the provocative title of a conversation and debate between Tom Yoder Neufeld, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies (New Testament) at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo and Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University.

  • December 25, 2013
    Australia's asylum policy 'would exclude Jesus' family'

    The government's shunning of asylum seekers means "no room at the inn" for Mary and Joseph, says an Australian archbishop.

  • December 24, 2013
    Christmas: the arrival of the unexpected God

    Christmas is a time for reflection. But sometimes, thankfully, someone else says pretty much what you might have said yourself, and probably better. Gratitude to Giles Fraser for his seasonal Guardian piece, 'The Bethlehem story takes us deeper into what it means to be human' (24 December 2013).

  • December 24, 2013
    Abbas sees Jesus as a 'role model' for Palestinians

    Palestinian President Abbas has called Jesus "a role model for the Palestinians", in a Christmas message from the West Bank.

  • November 13, 2013
    Fresh discovery through 'language under pressure'

    The fifth presentation in the "Making representations: religious faith and the habits of language" Gifford Lecture series was delivered by Dr Rowan Williams at the University of Edinburgh on 12 November 2013.