by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 11, 2025 | P.S.
One of the Oxford English Dictionary’s words of the year for 2020 was doomscrolling. Amid COVID outbreaks, perpetual lockdowns, and ever-changing social distancing rules, the term perfectly captured our compulsion to check our devices for the latest dose of bad news....
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 4, 2025 | P.S.
It is interesting to observe how words are used in our society, especially as things become more polarised. Words can become weaponised and used against people. The term, ‘woke’ is a very relevant example, but it is also of significance in terms of how we, like the...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Jul 27, 2022 | P.S.
I recently attended a moving service at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, that included times of silence as part of the liturgy. It was arranged by Corrymeela and was entitled “Courage of Lament”. After set prayers we were offered silence, to apply these prayers and let...
by admin | Oct 24, 2012 | P.S.
There was a hint of specks and planks (Matthew 7: 2-5) in recent statements in the Northern Ireland Assembly by unionist political representatives. Demanding apologies from the Irish government about their predecessors’ undoubted ambivalence towards IRA activity...
by admin | Jul 23, 2012 | P.S.
In the days after the Twelfth this year a perusal of the different media gave a variety of different perspectives on how it had been. Unionist-leaning websites gave evidence of a happy family day out, in the sun, at Keady, Ballymena and elsewhere. More...
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