 In February 2009, the Bishop of Willesden Pete Broadbent called the directors of Ekklesia «self-appointed self-publicists who speak for nobody [...] and pretend that they're speaking for mainstream Christianity».In 2010, when the Christian Concern lobbying group launched the "Not Ashamed Day", Ekklesia stated there was no evidence Catholics were being shamed because of their religion.In June 2011, Symon Hill, a bisexual Christian writer and a director of Ekklesia, embarked on a Birmingham-to-London pilgrimage against homophobia.