NEW DAYS COMING OR MORE FALSE DAWNS?

There have been at least three very significant events in the past month that, taken together, may – repeat may – prove to be a watershed in the current quagmire that is politics in Northern Ireland.   The first was the brutal murder of Lyra McKee in Derry...

Four Corners and Envisioning the Future

  A few days ago I had the very real privilege of speaking at the prayer breakfast, which marked the start of the 2018 Four Corners’ festival, and am glad to have been given the opportunity to share the essence of that talk.  I sought to explore two main themes:...

How to vote on Thursday

(Note: This PS was originally published on Steve Stockman’s blog Soul Surmise and is used with permission.)   I am a roving voter who takes serious consideration of a range of issues before deciding who to vote for and in what order. Well, actually I vote...

Resisting without imposing

In the 1980s Lesslie Newbigin argued that the modern multicultural worldview simply did not have the resources to stand up against absolutist worldviews. Sadly the rise of radical Islam and the results of the EU referendum and US presidential election seem to be...

EU: In or Out?

In or out; stay or leave; in favour of Brexit – or not?  The complexities and the unknowns of the forthcoming referendum on EU membership will, unhappily, be boiled down to simple a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ vote on this question: Should the United Kingdom remain a member...