by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 23, 2025 | P.S.
I was very struck by a question I was asked recently… What is enough – and when do you know you have enough? The question is almost impossible to answer well, for our broad experience is that when we acquire more of something, we still want just that little bit extra....
by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 13, 2025 | P.S.
Donald Trump is almost unrivalled in his ability to divide opinion. Few people can inspire such allegiance or such animus. In fact, at times animus is too benign a word. For some their confidence in him is unparalleled, almost as great as his confidence in himself,...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 6, 2025 | P.S.
On Tuesday of Holy Week, my son Conor was married in a civil ceremony, which by law, is entirely secular. As I listened to the exchange of vows, I understood why my father, following my own civil wedding almost 30 years ago, felt the need to include 1 Corinthians...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 30, 2025 | P.S.
You could have knocked me down with a feather when Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh phoned me unexpectedly towards the end of March 2022. He suggested that I sit down before he continued – and then told me that he had a personal letter from Pope Francis for me! I had...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 16, 2025 | P.S.
I was brought up in a church where the church ‘calendar’ was regarded as really quite unimportant – apart from Christmas and Easter. Lent and Pentecost were rarely mentioned, and even Christmas and Easter focussed on the culmination of the period, with little...
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