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Heschel on Northern Ireland

OK! I’m not sure that Heschel ever had anything particular to say about the situation in Northern Ireland, but I…

The flat slap of the tennis ball marked the intervals of our progress along the beach. I throw and Tobey…

Peregrinatio has a nice piece here about how last night’s acceptance speech by Obama really matters, and not just to…

for those of us of a certain age…this is terrific news. Remember those Saturday mornings, the hippy, trippy bears, the…

After the brutal assault on black marchers in Selma, Alabama on 7 March 1965, the USA could no longer deny…

During a morning workshop hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Christianity at East Belfast Mission, I took the opportunity to…

Coco came from China to Ireland three years ago looking 10 years younger than her actual age of 35. Speaking…

It’s an iconic photograph, taken in March 1965 on the Selma to Montgomery March with Martin Luther King Jr in…

This summer, it hardly needs to be said, the weather here has been awful…if you want the sun (which I…

This is a gloomy, difficult but fascinating novel detailing, and I mean detailing, the idiosyncracies, the dysfunctionalities and the hidden…