by contemporarychristianity_admin | Dec 13, 2023 | P.S.
We live on the edge of North Belfast. Recently I picked up a copy of Feargal Cochrane’s book ‘Belfast – The Story of a City and its People.’ A final chapter entitled ‘The Future’ begins with the following observation: ‘Belfast, like all cities, is in transition,...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Dec 7, 2023 | Events
WATCH NOW… FOODBANKS… STANDING IN THE GAP OR IN THE WAY? Catch up or watch again as Lynda Gould discusses how churches are leading the way in food bank provision, but is this overshadowing a need to protest? Filmed at the Ulster University on Thursday 2nd...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Nov 14, 2023 | P.S.
I am right handed. I use my right hand to write, occasionally to play tennis, golf or cricket, but most especially to drink coffee. Until recently, I assumed I only used my left hand to lean on. Then on 1st May, I had a stroke. Thankfully, I can talk, walk, see and...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Oct 27, 2023 | P.S.
It was just like any other dark, miserable January night for the soldiers on patrol. They were deployed on operations to support the police in keeping the peace in Northern Ireland and their patrol consisted of two armoured Land Rovers. Hunkered down in the back, they...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Oct 23, 2023 | P.S.
In 1990 when I was minister of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cork, I was tidying up a back room when I discovered in a cardboard box a Union Flag, all damp and moth eaten. It may be presumed that this was the same flag which was draped over the pulpit every...
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