by admin | Feb 19, 2014 | P.S.
Last year I was involved in facilitating an introductory peacebuilding course in a Protestant church in Belfast. We invited members from other churches to come to a meeting that did not involve worship and share their experiences in building peace. I later found out...
by admin | Dec 12, 2013 | P.S.
Each Sunday Renata Hughes sings in the choir in First Armagh. She is 83 years old. On the surface Renata appears as the typical Presbyterian choir member. However Renata grew up in Germany before the second world war. She was a member of Hitler Youth. Her father...
by admin | Nov 5, 2013 | Catherwood Lecture
On Thursday 10 October David Porter gave the 2013 Catherwood Lecture Justice, Mercy and Walking with God: The mission of the church and the future of reconciliation in Northern Ireland David Porter is well known as a co-founder and then Directorof ECONI (Evangelical...
by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | P.S.
In Northern Ireland, there has been a big increase in suicides since the early-nineties, before the first ceasefire in 1994, rising particularly throughout the period after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Many are concerned about the trend, which is often seen when...
by admin | Nov 13, 2012 | P.S.
In a recent book, War and the American Difference*, Stanley Hauerwas explores why it is that Americans have a distinct lack of unease with war. War, he says, ‘is America’s central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike...
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