My new book, Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles, co-authored with Jamie Yohanis, will be launched this month in five different locations throughout Northern Ireland.
The publisher, Merrion Press, has made the Introduction of the book available online for free.
The launches are:
Belfast: Tuesday 5 November, 12.30 pm, Assembly Buildings (Church House). Refreshments from noon.
The launch will hear from the PCI’s Moderator, Rt Rev Dr William Henry and Rev Tony Davidson, minister of First Armagh Presbyterian Church, who led the PCI’s Dealing with the Past Task Group that that commissioned the book.
There will also be readings from the book and a response to the new publication by Dr Nicola Brady, General Secretary of the Irish Council of Churches.
Click on the name of each town below for further details about each launch.
Londonderry – 6 November 2019 at 7.30pm in the City Hotel, Londonderry
Ballymena – 13 November 2019 at 5.30pm in the Ross Park Hotel, Ballymena
Armagh – 21 November 2019 at 6pm in the Palace Demesne, Armagh
Enniskillen – 27 November 2019 at 6pm in the Bridge Centre, Enniskillen
Considering Grace records the deeply moving stories of 120 ordinary people’s experiences of the Troubles, exploring how faith shaped their responses to violence and its aftermath.
It is the result of a research project commissioned by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and is the first book to capture such a full range of experiences of the Troubles of people from a Protestant background.
The stories in the book range from those of Presbyterian ministers, victims, members of the security forces, emergency responders, healthcare workers and ‘critical friends’ of the Presbyterian tradition.