 In October 2012, Ekklesia, in partnership with Edinburgh City Centre Churches Together, the Cornerstone Bookshop, and the Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh’s Adventures in Faith programme, launched the Centre for Living Christianity (CLiC) to explore religious faith in skeptical times.In March 2016, Ekklesia organized a group letter to ask the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Stephen Crabb, to think again his ministry's position regarding welfare cuts and benefit sanctions.Jonathan Bartley left the think tank in 2016 and subsequently became co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.