Who is my neighbour?

We are watching scenes of suffering, devastation and despair on our TVs, and in our living rooms. And we respond in different ways. We might switch off the horror or change channels (being spoilt for choice). Or we grow immune, moving into a “death with dinner” mode...

Moving on: to love Ethnic Minorities and Muslim neighbours.

In light of recent events we are producing this PS Extra by Steve Stockman, minister of Fitzroy Presbyterian Church. It is taken from his Soul Surmise Blog (http://www.stocki.typepad.com) and is reprinted with permission. There has been a lot of talk in the Northern...

Beyond Worldviews

This P.S. is by Vinoth Ramachandra, who will be giving the Catherwood Lecture on 26 June. For further details see ‘What’s On’ Abraham Kuyper famously stated “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who...

The Idolatry of Politics

As the posters go up for the elections in our streets, and unwanted bits of paper are thrust through our doors, I ask the hardly new question: Why does nothing seem to change? There are doubtlessly passionate commitments from all parties to various concepts: Unionism,...

Babel or Pentecost: Where do you want to be?

There was a lot of talk recently about who should speak Irish and, being an Irish speaker it set me thinking. I asked myself, as I regularly do: ‘what does it say in the Bible?’ Now, there’s nothing specifically on Irish in the Bible but two passages about language...