- Jonathan Bartley
Jonathan Bartley (born London,
1971 ) is the founder and co-director of Ekklesia, aChristian think tank based inLondon , and a religious commentator who appears regularly on UK radio and television programmes.Biography
After graduating from the
London School of Economics (1994), he worked at the UK Paliament as a researcher and parliamentary assistant for a number of years, and was part ofJohn Major 's campaign team in the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election againstJohn Redwood . Between 1997 and 2001 he was General Secretary of the cross-partyMovement for Christian Democracy . He founded Ekklesia, a think-tank which "works to promote radical theological ideas in public life".Broadcasting
He is a regular contributor to
BBC One 's "The Big Questions ",BBC Radio 4 's 'Thought for the Day' andITV1 's 'The Moral of the Story', and is a columnist forThe Church Times . He has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze and has written forThe Guardian newspaper.Public Theology
Bartley has lectured in Theology and Politics at
Sarum College in Salisbury, has served on theChurch of England Evangelical Council, and is a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Christian festival. He is a supporter ofChristian Peacemaker Teams , apacifist organisation, and acts as press officer on their behalf in the UK.Bartley has spoken publicly in defence of Dr Jeffrey John's attack on penal substitutionary atonement. He defends the full participation of gay and lesbian people in the church as an outworking of the Christian gospel.
His theological perspective is shaped by a commitment to
Christian nonviolence .Books
*"The Subversive Manifesto: lifting the lid on God's political agenda" (Bible Reading Fellowship, 2004).
* "Your Child and the Internet" (Hodder, 2004).
* (Co-editor) "Consuming Passion: Why The Killing of Jesus Really Matters" (DLT, 2005)*"Faith and Politics After Christendom: the church as a movement for anarchy" (Paternoster, 2006).
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