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A finely observed tale of a day in the life of a London neurosurgeon as antiwar protesters fill the streets, a meditation on what it means to age, a parable about the inevitability of violent terror breaking into our homes in a world so unjust and ultimately, a naively optimistic fable (turning about that most [...]

Needless to say, when I write about the EAI Civil Partnership Response, I am writing as ever as Kevin Hargaden. I am not representing EAI, or the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, or the Presbyterian church in Maynooth or other Man City supporters. But on the issue of that document I thought I would just briefly [...]

Zoomie’s favourite Irish singer/songwriter, Mumblin’ Deaf Ro was cited in AU & Nialler 9’s top 50 Irish albums of the decade. Preposterously, The Herring and the Brine was only 18th. Nialler made a bad mistake there. And Senor My Friend wasn’t even listed. For shame!
But delighted congrats to Ro. We’re all looking forward to [...]

One of the very many surprising things that I got to do this year was participate as a (very junior) member of the Evangelical Alliance Ireland research group; specifically as they sought to produce a theological response to the civil union legislation about to pass through Dáil Éireann.
The Evangelical Alliance Ireland is a movement of [...]

I have a friend who lives in the distant north of this island and has been taking time every day to collect and share the grace that permeates her days. It has been a lovely blog that hopefully will continue but a few days ago there was this deadly interaction with her son after talking [...]

Seeing as it is so in vogue to make lists ranking things I thought I’d put a list of movies on a post-it note and write a paragraph about why I remember them and don’t remember other, equally good films. This might seem like shoddy journalism to you but it is actually the way they [...]

… how best of lists tend to favour recent releases? Best of the Decade lists always have more recent years’ releases and Bes of the year lists always have more releases from the latter months.
Your Correspondent, Is not a she-wolf in your closet

Sitting in the pub a few weeks ago with a friend of mine who talks about history and gets paid for it, we came up with a most excellent reading project for 2010. One book a month to represent the history of the Christian church and a pre-Christian work in January to start the whole [...]

Stanley Hauerwas doing what only Stanley Hauerwas does:
Sentimentality from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.
Your Correspondent, At odds with his own sentimentalities

The book of Job, adapted to middle-20th Century suburban Minneapolis, ending with a final shot of Job’s coming theophany.
Your Correspondent, Always gets offended.