by admin | Apr 2, 2015 | P.S.
Whether politics is an art or a science may intrigue the academics, but for many of us in Northern Ireland it is a deeply dispiriting and often quite ugly spectacle. Let me balance that by saying unequivocally that our leaders deserve a great deal of respect and...
by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | P.S.
The Virgin airlines 747 pilot who this week had to make an emergency landing said he was just doing his job and had expressed a preference not to be named. When reporting this fact, one radio presenter commented in a tone of admiration that he was also “obviously a...
by admin | May 6, 2014 | P.S.
As the posters go up for the elections in our streets, and unwanted bits of paper are thrust through our doors, I ask the hardly new question: Why does nothing seem to change? There are doubtlessly passionate commitments from all parties to various concepts: Unionism,...
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 | Aug 15, 2013 | P.S.
The BBC’s Fergal Keane recently filed a report from South Africa where he recalls how few people, in the closing days of Apartheid, had much hope for the country, most expecting it to be torn apart by a bloody race war. No one imagined that within a decade, South...
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