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‘No One Came’

There is a terrible loneliness and abandonment in being attacked when you know you have no one you can call — no one you...

A Life Audit Over Rosé

As I write this there is an ominously long list on my desk taunting me. It is the list of things to be completed...

Unrepresented: The Problem with a Monocultural House of Bishops

You know what I like about you? You’re tall.’ So said an attendee at a funeral taken by my training rector. He had considered...

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...

Making Room for One Another: Worship, Growth and the Church We Are Becoming

There is a telling contrast before us. On an ordinary Sunday morning, many of our parish churches have rather more space in the pews...

Confessions of a Recovering Denominationalist

Now, not a lot of people know this (and why would they), but there are some 300 major Christian denominations in the United States...

Facing One Another: Communion, Conscience, and the Call to Mercy

The May 2026 issue of the Church of Ireland Gazette placed before its readers, on facing pages, two matters which speak rather pointedly to...

Reflections from the Outgoing Chair of the RB Executive Committee

At the invitation of the Archbishop of Armagh, The Most Reverend John McDowell, the outgoing chair of the Representative Body (RB) Executive Committee, Hilary...

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...

Wherever I Lay My Hat? That’s My Home

Now, I know this might sound a bit flash, but back in the day I owned two houses in France (one house might be...

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