Simon Barrow is Director of the beliefs, ethics and politics think-tank Ekklesia. From 2000 to 2005 he was assistant general secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, the official ecumenical body. He has written and contributed to numerous books, editing Scotland 2021 and A Nation Changed? The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On (with Gerry Hassan - Luath Press, 2017). He is also co-founder and chair of the Scottish Football Supporters Association, and lives in Leith, having relocated to Scotland from England in 2010.