City Futures 2
Continuing to think about Christian responsibility for the built environment of the city, and Belfast in particular. (Even as I…
Category: Urban Reflection (page 2)
City Futures
I’m reading the Old Testament prophets for descriptions of the City and wondering about contemporary analogues. I want to read…
What Created the Inner City?
As we get closer and closer to finally making the Skainos vision become a reality on the Lower Newtownards Road,…
Bob Lupton @ The Mission
A Conversation with Bob Lupton Here is another one of those regular but unpredictable invitations to an event at the…
New Creation Growing in the Inner City
It was with delighted surprise that I stepped out of the office at lunchtime today, into the crisp autumn sunshine,…
The Corner – David Simon, Ed Burns
The summertime is a good time for books, and given that this one was of a type that we now…
AKTivism from the Kitchen Table
Congratulations to all the AKT team on the success of last night’s event in the Black Box. I was inspired…
Three Key Texts for Social Activism
I was asked this week to speak to a group of students in the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Queen’s on EBM‘s…
Skainos Project Milestone
Some of you will know that I’ve spent most of the last 9 years working on a regeneration project known…
Heschel, Protest and Praying Legs
After the brutal assault on black marchers in Selma, Alabama on 7 March 1965, the USA could no longer deny…