I reviewed Xoliswa Sithole’s documentary, Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children, on this blog back in March. I hope that the BBC’s recent re-airing of the film has once again highlighted the situation in Zimbabwe, which continues to be precarious for the … Read more...
Category: Social Justice
McCluskey Civil Rights Summer School: Was the ‘Armed Struggle’ Justified?
How might the civil rights campaign in Northern Ireland have developed, had there been no ‘armed struggle?’
That was the theme of the first session of the McCluskey Civil Rights Summer School, held on Saturday 28 August at the Heritage … Read more...
Mass Boycott Going Global? Sojourners Editor Promoting ‘Sunday Without Women’
Jennifer Sleeman’s call for the women of Ireland to boycott mass on September 26th has captured the imagination of women beyond these shores. Rose Marie Berger, an associate editor with Sojourners magazine in Washington DC, has picked up on the … Read more...
Aidan Donaldson Book Review: Encountering God in the Margins
If you yearn for economic justice and human flourishing in the southern hemisphere, you may be plagued by the nagging suspicion that there is little that you can do to promote this. Sure, you can give to charity or even … Read more...
Questioning World Mission: Trinity College Conference on Ecumenics in the 21st Century
The Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, is marking the midpoint of its three-year research project this week with a conference, ‘From World Mission to Interreligious Witness: Visioning Ecumenics in the 21st Century.’
The conference is recognising the … Read more...
Bloody Sunday and the Saville Report: David Cameron and How to Say Sorry
With the Saville Report, the City of Derry and Northern Ireland now have a document that has, in the main, satisfied the families of the victims who were shot dead by the British Army in 1972. The families and other … Read more...
Christian Aid Tax Campaign: Reform, not Charity …
If you have ever contributed to charities working in developing countries, you’ve probably wondered just how far your money is going. First, there’s the worry that your money may be going to admin costs rather than the people ‘on the … Read more...
Exploring Non Violence: Events in Dublin with Fr Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
Non violence works. That’s the evidence from a study carried out by Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth, which argues that ‘major nonviolent campaigns have achieved success 53 per cent of the time, compared with 26 per cent for … Read more...
Are there any Christians in Religionless Christianity?
In the West, where ‘institutionalised’ forms of Christianity seem more tired, creaky and discredited by the day, some people involved with ‘emergence Christianity’ or the ‘emerging church’ are advocating a ‘religionless’ approach to Christianity.
The term ‘religionless Christianity’ is associated … Read more...
What’s Faith Got to do with Human Rights? Publication of Rights and Righteousness
What’s faith got to do with human rights? That’s one of the questions explored in a new publication, edited by Dr David Tombs of Trinity College Dublin at Belfast (the Irish School of Ecumenics), Rights and Righteousness: Perspectives on … Read more...
Brian McLaren Book Review: What Else is New about A New Kind of Christianity?
Back in March, I noted the intensity of the debate that had been provoked by Brian McLaren’s latest book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions that are Transforming the Faith.
Now that I’ve had a chance to read the … Read more...