by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 10, 2023 | GFA at 25, P.S.
It was the helicopters, that potent background hum of troubles Belfast, that signalled what progress was being made or not made. Our home sat just below the Gilnahirk ridge with a view of Parliament Buildings at Stormont. Several times on 10 April 1998, two...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 17, 2023 | P.S.
For Christians of a certain age there has been a noticeable change in the dynamics of faith in Northern Ireland. I grew up through an era where the differences between Protestants and Catholics were discussed, argued over and viewed as critical. I can still picture...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Feb 21, 2023 | P.S.
In the last number of months, I’ve returned to working in a Belfast office for a few days each week, and am now parking at the outer edges of the city’s Titanic Quarter. That has meant regular glimpses of what are arguably Belfast’s greatest icons: Samson and Goliath,...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Feb 2, 2023 | P.S.
Last October, when speaking in the Seanad in Dublin, Norman Hamilton bemoaned how none of the governments in Dublin, London, Belfast, or Washington, had a clear policy setting out what reconciliation is, or the steps needed to make it happen. Norman concluded, “That...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Feb 14, 2022 | P.S.
One of my Christmas presents in 2021 was Fintan O’Toole’s new book, “We don’t know ourselves, a personal history of Ireland since 1958”. Being quarantined in the house for a week, I confess I devoured the book quicker than the Christmas cake. O’Toole, born in...
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