It’s Summer …

It’s summer so it must be the season of parades, bands, counter demonstrations, and rubbish left in the streets afterwards.  Politicians, community workers and Orangemen continue the age-old but ever-new battle that has become an expression of our co-dependency and is...

Don’t Talk

Over the past few months I have been trying to understand why there are so many things that, for the most part, evangelicals do not or will not talk about.  We claim to be Biblical in our outlook and worldview, but seem all too willing to set aside so much of the...

On Art and Healing

“The artist is not a special type of human being, but every human being is a special type of artist.” (Art Scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy) Jonny Watson’s PS article ( Sept 2014) nails the problem with regard to ‘education’ in general. The...

Sacrificial Voting

“Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.” -Proverbs 31:9 “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” (Plato) My polling card dropped through the...

Sticks and Stones

Whether politics is an art or a science may intrigue the academics, but for many of us in Northern Ireland it is a deeply dispiriting and often quite ugly spectacle.  Let me balance that by saying unequivocally that our leaders deserve a great deal of respect and...