by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jul 9, 2024 | P.S.
Romans 12:12 “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.” As I mentioned in my last blog, in retirement I have been writing the history of my previous congregation, First Presbyterian Church, Armagh. After twenty-eight years of caring for...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Feb 2, 2024 | P.S.
It is now more than a year and a half since I retired from full time ministry in First Armagh Presbyterian Church. I confess I do not miss the constant pressure to preach at least once a Sunday to the same congregation maintaining biblical truth, as well as relevance...
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 | Dec 17, 2021 | P.S.
“The Missionaries accompanied the Colonialists, bringing Bibles and guns!” So stated my lecturer as he explained the background to postcolonial fiction. I was horrified. His lecture on the socio-political aspects of the colonial period highlighted that, although...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Oct 5, 2021 | Sounding Board
Before the emergence of Covid 19, another epidemic was spreading quietly and inconspicuously across the world, less contagious but still damaging to health and wellbeing. The epidemic of loneliness targets the connectedness which is at the heart of human flourishing....
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