by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jun 1, 2022 | P.S.
It happens at social gatherings. First, the (almost) inevitable question: And what do you do for a living? Next, the deep breath followed by the fatal confession: Actually, I’m a Christian Minister, yes, a clergyman, one of those. The reaction varies but quite...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 20, 2022 | P.S.
Even though I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet (to quote from Amos 7), nor am I like one of the sons of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what the people of God should do in perilous circumstances (I Chronicles 12), I am a committed follower of Jesus...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 28, 2022 | P.S., Uncategorized
“Don’t just be the servant of the state, meaning that you will clean up the mess caused by bad social policy. Do not just put a band-aid on the sores of society. Don’t just be service providers—be prophetic interrogators.” Dr Martin Luther King Jr The Trussell Trust...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 13, 2022 | P.S.
When my children were small, two types of toys dominated all others in our home: Lego and Play Mobil. Over the years, what seemed like endless and assorted offerings from each brand came into the house. There were firefighters, hospitals and police officers, both Lego...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 1, 2022 | P.S.
Day after day, night after night cities in Ukraine are being bombed on a huge scale, and are enveloped in distress. And, we are able to watch it in terrible colour on our TV screens, and able to read heart-rending accounts of what is happening to individuals,...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 25, 2022 | P.S.
In 1845, John Henry Newman, one time Anglican Priest and later Roman Catholic Cardinal wrote ‘To live is to change’. His comments described both the world as he observed it, and life, as he experienced it. Change is all around us in Ireland today. Finton O’Toole gives...
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