Realities are Greater than Ideas? Reflecting on the Common Good in Divided Communities
An extract from my contribution to the Irish Inter-Church Meeting 18 October 2018 at the Dromantine Centre Introduction to Ruth Project…
life, theology and spirituality on the county down shoreline
An extract from my contribution to the Irish Inter-Church Meeting 18 October 2018 at the Dromantine Centre Introduction to Ruth Project…
If you’re a regular church-goer here in Northern Ireland, here’s an article worth reading and reflecting on, especially if you’re…
On a cabin porch high in the mountains I watched a hummingbird. I heard it before I saw it, the…
In our house we were evenly split between yanny and laurel.* Personally, I was a yanny man, but my wife heard laurel. I…
In his book “Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians,” Rabbi Lawrence Kushner writes of a midrash on the story…
I wonder if our struggle to make sense of this strange story, beyond the simplistic “Jesus heals us” bit, is…
Then finally, again, there is the healed man. The story ends where it began with the man begging Jesus again…
Zacchaeus story has a man of noble birth coming to a city, the difference here is that this man, we…
As the whole of Europe, and our own island in particular, seeks to manage the implications of the UK withdrawal,…
A second question presents itself then. Where is the reader meant to find space in this story? Who is our…