by admin | Sep 13, 2019 | P.S.
EIGHTY YEARS ON On the evening of Monday 2nd September I met a group of Christian friends for a teatime meeting. On our way there we’d been listening to drive time news as we inched through Belfast traffic, with the breaking story being that the Prime Minister was to...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 8, 2025 | P.S.
Among the songs of worship that I will find myself singing this Easter, I am sure these words will be sung at some point: ‘This, the power of the cross: Christ became sin for us, Took the blame, bore the wrath: We stand forgiven at the cross.’ I believe those...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 26, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
Reflections over the last 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement Referendum Vote (Friday 22nd May, 1998) The practical problem of Christian politics is not that of drawing up schemes for a Christian society, but that of living as innocently as we can with...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 27, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
I was born in 1964. Like anyone of my generation growing up in the North, without knowing it, as children we were habituated to the brutal realities of political violence. Somewhere in my teenage years I became captivated by the good news of the gospel of Jesus...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 26, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
As a ‘ceasefire baby’ I have no specific memory of that Good Friday! What I remember instead is referendum day. On 22 May 1998 concurrent referenda were held in Ireland and Northern Ireland to, in essence, approve the terms of what is now called the Belfast ‘Good...
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