by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 1, 2024 | P.S.
The gospel injunction to “love our enemies” and “pray for those who persecute us” sits uneasily with modern sensibilities. In politics, such a modus operandi is perceived as weakness and may signal doom at the next election. Even in the Church, the words of our Lord...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Nov 14, 2023 | P.S.
I am right handed. I use my right hand to write, occasionally to play tennis, golf or cricket, but most especially to drink coffee. Until recently, I assumed I only used my left hand to lean on. Then on 1st May, I had a stroke. Thankfully, I can talk, walk, see and...
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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