Left Side UpMay 242 minThoughts on FreedomThe long-awaited reopening of indoor coffee shops and restaurants has finally arrived. Despite the remaining mitigations such as...
Left Side UpMay 214 minWhen fear and faith collide“Lock me in a room and never come back for me” Those where my desperate cries and dark pleas to my husband, in the depth of utter...
Left Side UpApr 196 minWe need to rethink Hell. A parable. An experienced, organised old schoolteacher presides over a babbling bunch of seven year olds. They are going on a school trip...
Left Side UpApr 186 minAgainst Conversion Therapy: Christians Talk BackThe debate on banning so called Conversion Therapy is not a conflict simply between religious people and secular groups. And we must not...
Left Side UpApr 144 minWe need to talk about disordered eatingOn Saturday, Twitter informed the world that, Nikki Grahame, of reality television Big Brother fame, had died at the age of 38. What made...
Left Side UpApr 88 min‘The Future is Precious’: NI Youth Workers SpeakNo, this wasn‘t documentary footage from the seventies or eighties. The videos of young lads throwing fireworks over peace walls and...
Left Side UpMar 162 minPope Francis is Right: God Cannot bless sin. Pope Francis is right. God cannot bless sin. That may explain why so many of us cannot find God in the church. And that isn’t to say that...
Left Side UpFeb 95 min#HimToo: The Crucifixion as Sexual Violence We are delighted to have Rev Jonathan Abernethy guesting on the blog this week. Jonathan is an academic researcher, too, and gives us an...
Left Side UpJan 115 min'This is my truth tell me yours': Christians and COVID Denial‘God is dead’, said Nietzsche. And conservative Christians didn’t like that. How odd it is, then, to find these same sorts of Christians...
Left Side UpDec 1, 20207 minA ‘Biblical’ view of same-sex marriageOver the last few years I have become increasingly disillusioned, and frankly horrified, at how I have seen mainline churches in Northern...
Left Side UpNov 12, 20203 minNostalgia for the Present. 'What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.' How many thousands of years ago...
Left Side UpNov 5, 20205 minMoses and the Promised Land: No Happy Ending?[Preached in Harmony Hill Presbyterian Church on Sunday 8th March 2020] Deuteronomy 34, the account of the death of Moses, can be much...
Left Side UpOct 12, 20204 minWomen in Ministry? Women in Ministry, Word and Sacrament Are we still taking about this? It’s astonishing that in the year 2020 there should be any need to...
Left Side UpOct 12, 20205 minWhen 'The Good News' isn't good. If there’s one thing I learnt from my first blog post a few weeks ago, it’s that there’s nothing like a bit of honesty to make a chasm...
Left Side UpOct 3, 20205 minThe Gracelessness of the LeftOf all the bad behaviours to be given a free pass, the uninvited pub lecture on identity politics is one of the most irritating. It is...
