Listening Across the Divide

Listening Across the Divide

Northern Ireland is a place where people know that peace is not just political – it is relational. Two women who understood this deeply were Cynthia Cockburn, the feminist peace researcher, and Monica McWilliams, co‑founder of the Northern Ireland Women’s...
Rethinking Community Relations & Reconciliation

Revisiting Reconciliation

This is a special edition of our PS blog to bring you up to date on an exciting, and demanding, piece of research being led by our Contemporary Christianity Board, and which is about to get under way. Following a conversation last Autumn with some wise supporters, we...
Stirring the Waters

Stirring the Waters

The recent Legacy Framework launched by Tanaiste, Simon Harris, and Secretary of State Hillary Benn has reignited the debate on how we remember the Troubles. The Independent Commission for Information Recovery and Reconciliation, the ICRIR will be replaced by two new...
The Three T’s

The Three T’s

I see this book as part memoir and part final testament complementing the pastoral and more public ministry to which I have been privileged to contribute in a modest way for well over half a century. A period that has seen the horrors of what we euphemistically call...