Paul reflects on his friend and co-worker, Mary Rose Gibson, who died on 21st September 2023, after a short illness. [This tribute was given at the “Friendship Club” at Kirkpatrick Memorial Presbyterian Church.] Before I had even met Mary Rose, she gave me a gift. An hour or two before my first staff meeting on …
Paul reflects on “Let Justice Roll”, the 2023 conference of The Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. This year the conference was held in partnership with Christ at the Checkpoint, a community of evangelical Christians based at Bethlehem Bible College who explore what Christian discipleship looks like amidst the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Emma reviews Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize nominated Small Things Like These, a novella about one father’s encounter with one of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene laundries.
Trusting God with the last of ourselves… Emma concludes our Lenten series with a meditation on the seventh last saying of Jesus.
What are we thirsting after? Paul considers this question by listening to the fifth and sixth last sayings of Jesus on the cross.
Is it part of Christian faith to accept the inexplicability of evil? Paul continues his Lent reflections by contemplating the fourth last saying of Jesus from the cross.
This third Lenten reflection comes on the week when Paul attended the funeral of a former student. How does Christ want us to respond to sudden loss?
Transhumanism promises paradise. But where does this leave God? Paul reflects on the second of Jesus’ last sayings from the cross.
Paul begins a series of lenten reflections on the last words of Jesus spoken from the cross.
Reflecting on the great democratisation of dreaming foretold by the Prophet Joel, Paul ponders how the Spirit might enable us to dream God’s dream for Belfast and beyond. How might God use our troubled history to demonstrate the power of His grace? What version of Northern Ireland does the world need?