The Redundant Church?

The church’s services as chaplain to this democracy are no longer required. You’ve been given your P45; your severance pay is in the mail. This is roughly what Walter Brueggemann said to a Presbyterian audience in America.* It is perhaps how the church in...

1912: Covenant or Contract

Being convinced in our consciences that Home Rule would be disastrous to the material well-being of Ulster as well as of the whole of Ireland, subversive of our civil and religious freedom, destructive of our citizenship, and perilous to the unity of the Empire, we...

In Conversation With … Colin Neill

This season our ‘In Conversation With …’ events are on the theme of faith and politics in Northern Ireland. Imagining a United Ireland: The Novelist’s Opportunity 21 February 2012 Turas is Colin Neill’s first novel. It is 2020 and Ireland has been united....

Community Transformation

It was the evening of the 6th August 2011 when the London riots erupted. Two days before, the death of Mark Duggan had created significant anger which finally exploded into widespread civil unrest, rioting, arson and looting.  Other towns and cities were affected as...