We cremated my friend James on the freakishly warm Friday before St Patrick’s Day, between the two bouts of even freakier snow. We did this after a celebration of the Supper of the Lord Jesus Christ who was his Saviour and the anchor of his life. The daffodils bobbed in the sunshine as we took his coffin through the traffic from the church in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral to the crematorium in East Finchley, his terminus ad quem …
They’re all fighting over religion. Sure Christians are part of the problem. Twenty five years ago a group of Northern Ireland evangelicals decided to address the possibility that Northern Ireland Christians could do more to be actively part of the solution. They published For God and His Glory Alone – deliberately mirroring For God and Ulster – and challenged Christians to think differently about how they might live Biblically and contribute positively to a society that was still far from …
John Kyle – Belfast City councillor, well known East Belfast GP and evangelical Christian – addressed a large crowd at Contemporary Christianity last Tuesday evening. The strapline for his thirty minute address was Where Faith and Loyalism Collide You can listen to his talk on the Contemporary Christianity website or through the embedded audio player below. John Kyle explained how he joined the Progressive Unionist Party in 2000 “to support David Ervine”, a man who he found to be “refreshingly …
