Complicated Conversations
On Monday morning I sat in on a conversation with two VAT inspectors and two accountants who are experts in…
Category: Reflection (page 10)
Stringfellow, Prayer and Profanity
Ben Myers posted the William Stringfellow quotation below over on his excellent Faith and Theology blog as part of a…
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…
A Sermon Text for Homelessness Sunday (part 2)
Below is part 2 of a text I used on Sunday 1 February in Trinity Presbyterian in Bangor as part…
Ireland's Crisis
Listening in to Drive Time on RTE Radio 1 yesterday, I heard Fergus Finlay of Bernardo’s offer a reflection on…
A Final Thing on Funerals (for now)
This week has been bookended by funerals. On Monday it was a funeral mass for my aunt Margaret where the…
Irish Funeral Traditions
It’s been a while since I’ve been to an Irish funeral and it was refreshing to see that even in…
My Aunt Margaret
Struck again by how profound the pastoral office is. I took friday off to do little and catch up on…
Some Thoughts for the Presbyterian Church on the Demise of the Mutual Society
OK! First of all, I don’t want to underestimate the horrendous position the Moderator and the Clerk find themselves in…
A Very unPresbyterian Scandal
Other local bloggers have weighed in on this scandal, sometimes very creatively, like Cheryl, sometimes prophetically, like Alan, and some…