by contemporarychristianity_admin | Sep 30, 2025 | P.S.
The recent Legacy Framework launched by Tanaiste, Simon Harris, and Secretary of State Hillary Benn has reignited the debate on how we remember the Troubles. The Independent Commission for Information Recovery and Reconciliation, the ICRIR will be replaced by two new...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Dec 5, 2024 | P.S.
I see this book as part memoir and part final testament complementing the pastoral and more public ministry to which I have been privileged to contribute in a modest way for well over half a century. A period that has seen the horrors of what we euphemistically call...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | May 13, 2024 | P.S.
The recent passing of Johan Galtung* leaves the field of Peace Studies without one of its founding giants. His work was about understanding violence and building positive peace; a society in which all people can flourish. This is in contrast to negative peace, which...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 3, 2024 | P.S.
Recently I picked up a copy of Eamonn Mallie’s newly published memoir ‘Eyewitness to War and Peace.’ Mallie’s compelling narrative of almost fifty years in journalism poises the tantalising question: What did Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Mother Theresa and Ian...
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,...
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