Unfair Trade

by | Jan 23, 2015 | P.S.

(This article appeared on the blog PeoplePlanetProphet on 1 November 2014) Christians of all stripes should be concerned about the proposed free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). In the book of Exodus we read of the...

Elections 2015: any hope for an elusive quality?

by | Jan 1, 2015 | P.S.

The Virgin airlines 747 pilot who this week had to make an emergency landing said he was just doing his job and had expressed a preference not to be named. When reporting this fact, one radio presenter commented in a tone of admiration that he was also “obviously a...

Cultivating Still, Small Voices

by | Dec 2, 2014 | P.S.

“After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.” (1 Kings 9:12) In October Mark Driscoll, the outspoken Pastor of the Mars Hill “Mega-Church” in Seattle, sensationally resigned...

P.S. – Assumptions

by | Nov 3, 2014 | P.S.

As part of preparation for teaching a module on ‘Faith and Contemporary Culture’ I’ve been thinking about the myriad number of assumptions inherent within our Western ‘way of life’. By ‘assumption’ I mean an expectation of normalcy: something...

Is being judgemental the deadliest sin?

by | Oct 2, 2014 | P.S.

I recently heard a sermon on Romans 14:1-10. The preacher spent most of the time giving examples of  how judging others, very often for trivial matters, had harmful consequences for the persons judged. The sermon ended with a brief discussion of Romans 14:10,...

Meant to Mentor Men?

by | Sep 10, 2014 | P.S.

I once heard it said that there are two great learning institutions in Belfast: One being Queen’s University; the other Queen’s Island – the East Belfast shipyard megalith that built the likes of the “Olympic” and “Titanic”. However, if you are a young Protestant man,...