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December 16, 2020

Companionship in a time of change

There were two shelves of Everyman Library classics in my childhood home. These had largely been acquired second hand and I remember them as being in varying conditions of well-thumbed tattiness.
October 1, 2020

War, pandemic and Christopher Robin

It can sometimes be advantageous to arrive late. I did not pay much attention to the film Goodbye Christopher Robin when it first appeared in 2017.
May 29, 2020

One Boat Chaplaincy: a global response to COVID-19

An online initiaitive, One Boat Chaplaincy, has been launched to consider new perspectives and alliances which might be created between churches and their communities in a post COVID-19 world.
February 26, 2020

Lent: looking beyond 40 days

On the doorstep of Lent, I stand uncertain.
December 31, 2019

Of political loyalties and difficult change: some thoughts for a new year

The curious liminal space which lies between Christmas and New Year and encompasses them both, is almost over.
December 10, 2019

Introducing #SmallActsOfHope - things we can all do

Here at Ekklesia we have been thinking about what things ‘ordinary people’ – that’s all of us, one way or another – can do to nurture hope and resist the tide of negativity in these islands and bey
April 27, 2019

Greta and Lyra: under is rising

It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that old heads do not fit on young shoulders.
January 16, 2019

Royal College of Physicians to poll its members on assisted dying

The Royal College of Physicians is to poll its members and fellows on whether or not there should be a change in the law to permit assisted dying.
January 1, 2019

Reasons for hope in a world still on red alert, says UN chief

Last year, António Guterres issued “a red alert” over a range of dangers confronting the world, which “still persist” as 2019 looms: “These are anxious times for many, and our world is undergoing a stress test”, he said in his New Year message, calling for international cooperation to build a better future.
November 10, 2018

Commemorating a centenary or forgetting the pity of war?

How a war ends is as important as the manner of its beginning. It is in that ending that injustice and hatred may be sown.