by contemporarychristianity_admin | Aug 6, 2024 | P.S.
Last week I had the most surreal experience of my life. A musical, based on the memoir of my student days in the 1980s, has been playing at the Lyric Theatre. It is the third of my memoirs to be transformed into a musical, but this time the show includes me meeting my...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jul 9, 2024 | P.S.
Romans 12:12 “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.” As I mentioned in my last blog, in retirement I have been writing the history of my previous congregation, First Presbyterian Church, Armagh. After twenty-eight years of caring for...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jun 26, 2024 | P.S.
With Election Day imminent, you and I will have to assess the promises that have been made, the manifestos published and the interviews given. The common thread has been of a much better future being dangled in front of us from a variety of perspectives. I am NOT a...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jun 12, 2024 | P.S.
It is interesting how unusual or exceptional circumstances can make one acutely aware of things previously taken for granted. The Covid pandemic made us all much more aware of the importance of relationships, or, as we now refer to them, social connections. The...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 24, 2024 | P.S.
1st March 2024. Remember this day. The funeral of Aleksei Navalny in southeast Moscow. I spent some time looking at the BBC coverage of events surrounding the service in the Church of the Icon of Our Lady Quench My Sorrow, and then his burial in Borisovskoye...
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