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 28, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
I am always very wary of hype… words like iconic / amazing / radical / life changing / once in a lifetime usually mean that I pay less attention to what is being promoted than I might otherwise have done. What is being offered is often little more than an attention...
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...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 25, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
I was born in 1994 in Nairobi Kenya. Two Northern Irish missionaries who were living in Nairobi adopted me. I came to Northern Ireland with my sister and my parents in the 1990s. I grew up in peacetime, I do not remember a time of inter-communal violence, I do not...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 24, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
They were walking away. This was not the road they thought the two of them would be taking at this time. A triumphant entry had too soon turned into a shameful exit. They happen upon a stranger, who offers them an opportunity to reflect on this turn of events. Not...
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