If you stand on top of Black Mountain on a clear day you see the city of Belfast spilling out before you to the east, north and south. Rows of red brick terraced houses. Old and new centres of leisure, business and academia rising at its heart. Slightly to the east of the centre stand the giant yellow Harland and Wolff cranes christened ‘Samson’ and ‘Goliath’. Old docklands nestle under their shadows. At one time the busiest docks in the world, to be discarded, becoming a wasteland, but now...

It is often said don’t to talk about politics in church. However, you can’t honestly and helpfully talk about church and mission today without acknowledging the current social and political climate in which we seek to carry it out. The evangelical Anglican theologian John Stott said we have to be Jesus’ disciples, living his way, in his world, by having ‘a bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other.’ And if we do not reflect on what is going on in the world and society around us in light...

‘Céad míle fáilte’ are the warm words that greet visitors to Ireland, meaning ‘100 000 welcomes’. The phrase is not in the widely...