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...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 10, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
It was the helicopters, that potent background hum of troubles Belfast, that signalled what progress was being made or not made. Our home sat just below the Gilnahirk ridge with a view of Parliament Buildings at Stormont. Several times on 10 April 1998, two...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 6, 2023 | P.S.
On Sunday morning (9 April) lots of Christian people will get out of their beds early, and join with others for a happy and enthusiastic Easter morning celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grip of death and hell. (And if you want to be really...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 17, 2023 | P.S.
For Christians of a certain age there has been a noticeable change in the dynamics of faith in Northern Ireland. I grew up through an era where the differences between Protestants and Catholics were discussed, argued over and viewed as critical. I can still picture...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Feb 21, 2023 | P.S.
In the last number of months, I’ve returned to working in a Belfast office for a few days each week, and am now parking at the outer edges of the city’s Titanic Quarter. That has meant regular glimpses of what are arguably Belfast’s greatest icons: Samson and Goliath,...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Feb 2, 2023 | P.S.
Last October, when speaking in the Seanad in Dublin, Norman Hamilton bemoaned how none of the governments in Dublin, London, Belfast, or Washington, had a clear policy setting out what reconciliation is, or the steps needed to make it happen. Norman concluded, “That...
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