He is a tutor for the Workers' Educational Association and an associate tutor at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre. Symon Hill is a Christian activist, writer and peaceworker. Some of his workshop material and other resources can be found at Compassionistas. His latest book, Seeking Justice: The radical compassion of Jesus plots experiments in faith based community organising and direct action. He teaches and writes on Dalit theology, Christian anarchism, green spirituality, and spiritual activism. Keith Hebden is an Affirming Catholic Anglican pioneer minister and Seeking Justice deanery adviser in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where he chairs the Diocesan Greener Churches Group. He is currently working on how an alternative 'care-based economy for all' could function. His latest book is Disabled Church - Disabled Society: The Implications of Autism for Philosophy, Theology and Politics, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize. He is a theologian and researcher who has done extensive work on the history of disability. Her blog is: John Gillibrand is vicar of Llangeler and rector of Penboyr in Cymru/Wales. She is author of Protest for Peace (Glasgow & Iona: Wild Goose Publications, 2004), which documents the work of Christian peace activists within, and on the edges of, the churches. Dr Hagopian’s own website is and his Ekklesia articles, blogs and podcasts are here: Bernadette Meaden has written about religious, political and social issues for some years, and is strongly influenced by Christian Socialism, liberation theology and the Catholic Worker movement. Formerly an Executive Secretary of the Jerusalem Inter-Church Committee and Executive Director of the Middle East Council of Churches, he is consultant to the Campaign for Recognition of the Armenian Genocide (UK) and author of The Armenian Church in the Holy Land. He also acts as a Middle East and inter-faith advisor to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales and as Middle East consultant to ACEP (Christians in Politics) in Paris. Harry Hagopian is an international lawyer, ecumenist and EU political consultant. He previously taught Middle East history and politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Pavia, Italy. He is also one of the organisers of the Christians in the Middle East network ( ) and a contributor to the Critical Religion Research Group ( ). His research centres on religion, history and politics in an international context, with a particular focus on the involvement of Europeans overseas and especially in the Middle East he has published widely in these areas. Michael Marten is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies with Religion at Stirling University. She provides expert commentary on Anglican and Church of England affairs, and contributed several chapters to Fear or Freedom? Why a warring church must change (Shoving Leopard, 2008). She works in the voluntary sector in community care and equalities, is a respected writer on Christianity and social justice, and was a long-standing member of the Jubilee Group, a network of radical Anglo-Catholics and others. Savitri Hensman was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in London. They assist Ekklesia, but are not institutionally tied to us. ASSOCIATES Ekklesia associates are people with particular interests and expertise who support us, whose own work we value and publicise, and who in different ways contribute to the endeavour of engaging transformative theological perspectives with a thoughtful understanding of religion, beliefs and values in public life.
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