Symon Hill

Who is Symon Hill?

Symon Hill is a British Socialist, Pacifist, queer Christian, activist, and journalist. He is associate director of the left wing Christian think tank Ekklesia.

In the summer of 2011 Hill went on a pilgrimage of repentance for homophobia, walking from Birmingham to London, attracting widespread media attention. Hill read Theology at Westminster College, Oxford.

Hill was until recently media spokesperson for the Campaign Against Arms Trade.He represented CAAT in the media when they took the British Government to court in 2007-08 over the cancellation of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE Systems arms deals with Saudi Arabia. As a result comedian Mark Thomas nominated him as a Hero of 2007 in the Independent on Sunday

Hill writes mainly on the issues of disarmament, public activism, sexuality, and the role of religion in society. His comment pieces have appeared in newspapers as diverse as the Sunday Herald, the Morning Star and the Daily Mail. He contributes regularly to Guardian Comment is Free, The Friend and Movement. He has written a book, The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion published by New Internationalist magazine in March 2010 as part of its No-Nonsense Guides series. Hill is now writing a book on on-line activism. The book will be called Digital Revolutions: Activism in the age of the internet. It will be published by New Internationalist in spring 2013.