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...
by admin | Oct 24, 2012 | P.S.
There was a hint of specks and planks (Matthew 7: 2-5) in recent statements in the Northern Ireland Assembly by unionist political representatives. Demanding apologies from the Irish government about their predecessors’ undoubted ambivalence towards IRA activity...
by admin | Aug 29, 2012 | P.S.
Reconciliation is a gift and a task, a process and a destination, an experience and a hope. Already there is the sense that this is something big. In Northern Ireland we face the challenge of reconciliation in a society where the old divisions still threaten and where...
by admin | Jul 23, 2012 | P.S.
In the days after the Twelfth this year a perusal of the different media gave a variety of different perspectives on how it had been. Unionist-leaning websites gave evidence of a happy family day out, in the sun, at Keady, Ballymena and elsewhere. More...
by admin | Jan 18, 2012 | In Conversation With...
This season our ‘In Conversation With …’ events are on the theme of faith and politics in Northern Ireland. In the first of the series John Kyle spoke on the theme: Where Faith and Loyalism Collide 17 January 2012 John Kyle is a General Practitioner...
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