Details: Jonathan Bartley

Jonathan Bartley is founder and director of the Religion and Society thinktank Ekklesia.

He was a contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, until he called for the slot to be widened to include those outside the major world religions, including Humanists and Atheists.

A regular columnist for the Church Times, he is an author of a number of books on religion and public life, contributor to the Guardian's Comment is Free, frequently appears on Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show, and is a panellist on BBC1's the Big Questions. The Daily Telegraph says he 'does not conform to the stereotype of a peace campaigner' and the Guardian's Riazat Butt has called him 'the best looking Christian in Britain'. Damian Thompson, editor of the Catholic Herald and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph refuses to meet him 'in case I like him.'

When Jonathan is not doing religion and politics, he plays in a blues band signed to the Blues Matters Label, called The Mustangs.
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13-02-2009 (2.3 MB)

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