Dr Stephen Brown (*1958), theologian and journalist, editor of The Ecumenical Review, World Council of Churches, Geneva, 2017- 2025. Associate member of the Institut romand de systématique et d’éthique (IRSE) at the University of Geneva since 2025. A former member of the board of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), he was a co-organizer of the European Festival of Religious Television Programmes in Paris (2017) and Berlin (2023). Born in Britain, studies in International Development and then Theology (Cambridge and Berlin). PhD for a dissertation on the churches and ecumenism in the GDR. Managing editor, Ecumenical News International, Geneva, 1994-2010, and director of online libraries at Globethics, Geneva, 2011-2015.
Theologian and journalist
Country of origin
Great Britain
Festivals
Current issues
Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.
Events
16.02.2025
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