Simply Being There
Conor O’Reilly reflects on how his experiences of hospital chaplaincy and personal bereavement taught him that presence and acts of kindness offer more comfort...
What is Truth?
Conor O’Reilly argues that belief in God as the source of truth offers a counterpoint to ideologies that reduce the person to something less...
The Lost Art of Disagreeing Well
Following the killing of Ann Widdecombe, Christians have a responsibility to show that conviction and civility can coexist, writes Conor O’Reilly
It used to be...
The Need for a Christocentric Identity
In the past few decades, there has been a perceptible drift by an increasing number of clergy towards political activism and virtue signalling, and...
The Decline of Sunday Service as a Pattern of Worship in Irish Society
‘His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me”.’ (John 2:17)
As a young boy growing up in the Roman...
The Urgent Need to Bring an Authentically Christian Perspective to the Ongoing Debate about the ‘Right to Die’ and Euthanasia
The recent death by euthanasia of Noelia Castillo Ramos — a 25-year-old Spanish woman who requested euthanasia as a consequence of being left paralysed...
Allowing Space for God
Recent developments in the Middle East, in addition to the ongoing and seemingly endless and intractable war in Ukraine, have led to me making...
Lent, Grief, and the Hope of Easter
I write this article shortly before the beginningof Lent. By a cruel twist of fate, the beginning of Lent coincides with the anniversary of...
The Crisis of the Authority of Scripture in Contemporary Churches
In recent decades, a crisis has rocked Churches around the globe: the issue of the authority of Scripture. Though traditionally seen as the book...
The Dangers of Measuring Church Success by Metrics
In the Western world, many churches have, over the last few decades, increasingly embraced business methodologies to measure the success or failure of their...