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In Church Today….

Three things from church today, when we celebrated the Ascension. I watched my eleven year old sitting two seats to…

Walking along the Newtownards Road this lunchtime I stood to watch the great bulbous accumulations of cumulous cloud swagger across…

Peter Laarman from Progessive Christians Uniting has written a challenging piece called ‘I Owe, Therefore I Am: why struggling against…

If it’s not old news it certainly is forgotten news. I came across this earlier today on inappropriate aid following…

What I wanted to say, but couldn’t find the words at the time, was God’s great plan was the creation…

Here’s a great story from yesterday’s Irish Times. It tells of a new drama based on Handel’s famous ‘Messiah’ oratorio,…

A superb article here by Ann Pettifor on the current economic crisis, referencing both the Wizard of Oz and the…

I came across this project through the Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries newsletter. The purpose of the project, in its own terms…

From the Church of Ireland Service of Holy Communion this morning. Note the melodic repetition of ‘for you’. Thanks be…

The following was offered as a reflection at Wall-2-Wall, a contemporary worship event at my home church. **************************** Some years…