by contemporarychristianity_admin | Sep 3, 2025 | P.S.
Over the last few years, we have, under the Welcome Churches initiative, been supporting asylum seekers who have come here legally and have been placed in our town. People fleeing war and persecution. For those who are concerned about the threat that refugees may pose...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Aug 26, 2025 | P.S.
A number of months ago I found myself in a conversation among a group of church leaders and one of the subjects that arose was that of commitment. Part of the discussion was about differing attitudes to church among the assorted generations in most congregations, and...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Aug 19, 2025 | P.S.
Holiday reading, and the attendant choices that accompany it, is an art I have never quite mastered. My wife does periodically remind me of how on one holiday, early in our married life, I arrived poolside carrying my flip-flops, my sunglasses, and Jonathan Bardon’s...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jun 24, 2025 | P.S.
Years ago, I was known by some for sporadic, long, detailed blog posts about miscellaneous issues in the world around us… but a wise spiritual director asked me… who did I think was being changed by these posts? And after a period of reflection, I stopped! In...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jun 17, 2025 | P.S.
A dear friend queried recently whether it was not the case that in the Catholic Church the demands of conscience ,and the directions of the hierarchy, are at times mutually incompatible, by asking if the conscience of a Catholic could be eclipsed or overborne by the...
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