by CC Admin | Jun 24, 2021 | P.S.
Reflection on Northern Ireland at 100 years How did we get here? The creation of Northern Ireland looks, to me, as cynical and short-sighted as Brexit. But the ensuing problems served only to protect those who could protect themselves. By “offshoring” the question of...
by CC Admin | Jun 23, 2021 | P.S.
‘Reflection on Northern Ireland at 100 years’ I was born into a Protestant and Unionist family in Ballymoney in 1953. Some family members were in the loyal orders and “B” Specials. Early in life I imbibed a unionist and orange mindset, but was brought up...
by CC Admin | Jun 22, 2021 | P.S.
Reflection on Northern Ireland at 100 years Identity Matters… “So, what are you, Danielle?” asked my 10-year-old friend, Grainne as we walked up the town to deliver a message for her mum to the nun at the local chapel. We were purposefully taking our time as we felt...
by CC Admin | Jun 21, 2021 | P.S.
Commemorating 100 years of Northern Ireland evokes conflicting emotions. For those who lived through the ‘Troubles’, the Good Friday Agreement seems much more recent than 1998.The pallor of suffering and enmity still casts its shadow. The diminution, if not complete...
by CC Admin | Jun 16, 2021 | P.S.
Welcome to …PS…, an email and web discussion forum from Contemporary Christianity. Virtual and voluntary, we normally issue …PS… once or twice each month. Next week, look out for a 5 day series of blogs …. From next Monday, 21 June for five days we will be issuing a...
by admin | Feb 24, 2021 | P.S.
Fasting and feasting holidays are the events in the Jewish calendar around which life is orientated. Many of these ‘festivals’ have their origin in the laws which God gave to the people of Israel after they left Egypt and were on their way to the Promised...
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