Category: Public Theology
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This Is Our Call to Our Home (Matthew 10:1-8)
Sent with the Mercy and Message of the Kingdom Last week, as we opened up the first half of this passage, we thought together about what it means to call this place that becomes home for each of us. Not just as a city we live near, or a parish we drive into, or streets…
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This is Our Home (Matthew 9:35-38)
Seeing the City with the Compassion of Christ Introduction I love our city, and over the past four years, as I have served in this Church and parish, I can honestly say I have only grown to love our city even more as a city I studied in began to feel like home, and the…
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Finding Your Voice in a World of Whisper (Acts 17:22-31)
That we might speak so the world can know
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Present but Absent: Who Is the Parish For?
Many Church of Ireland parishes remain physically present in deprived urban areas while becoming socially and missionally distant from the people around them. Focusing on North Belfast, this article asks whether the parish can recover a clearer, more credible presence in the communities it is called to serve.
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Strangers Chosen and Sent into a Stranger World (1 Peter 1:1-2)
1 Everything Has Changed: Nothing Had Changed (Introduction) Before Christmas, I was able to go over to the Lyric theatre and see a telling of that world-famous work, A Christmas Carol. It was absolutely fantastic, but one of the things I loved about it was how they had set it in Belfast all those years…
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