by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 24, 2024 | P.S.
1st March 2024. Remember this day. The funeral of Aleksei Navalny in southeast Moscow. I spent some time looking at the BBC coverage of events surrounding the service in the Church of the Icon of Our Lady Quench My Sorrow, and then his burial in Borisovskoye...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 13, 2024 | P.S.
The recent passing of Johan Galtung* leaves the field of Peace Studies without one of its founding giants. His work was about understanding violence and building positive peace; a society in which all people can flourish. This is in contrast to negative peace, which...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 26, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
Reflections over the last 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement Referendum Vote (Friday 22nd May, 1998) The practical problem of Christian politics is not that of drawing up schemes for a Christian society, but that of living as innocently as we can with...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 28, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
I am always very wary of hype… words like iconic / amazing / radical / life changing / once in a lifetime usually mean that I pay less attention to what is being promoted than I might otherwise have done. What is being offered is often little more than an attention...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 27, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
I was born in 1964. Like anyone of my generation growing up in the North, without knowing it, as children we were habituated to the brutal realities of political violence. Somewhere in my teenage years I became captivated by the good news of the gospel of Jesus...
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