Scary Bible verses

I get weekly emails from Evangelical Alliance called “Friday Night Theology.” Sometimes I find them really interesting, other times less so but thats how it goes with these things. It was great this week as they posted the ten scariest Bible verses according to the ever-excellent Ship of Fools website.
Having been brought up on the [...]

Jesus on the mainline (and in The Wire)

A good churchman is always up in everybody’s sh*t
There are many memorable quotes from The Wire, but I was thinking about this one today. These were the words of “the deacon,” a character who first appears in season three, played by Melvin Williams (a fascinating character in his own right). He’s the only religious figure [...]

One more Easter song

Great live version with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers of “In the Garden” from Dylan’s Saved album.

Holy Week

I’ve been attending an Anglican church for a couple of years now, and coming from a strict Baptist background it has been a new and enriching experience to follow the liturgical calendar of the Church of Ireland. Although our church is probably more progressive than others within the denomination, it still respects this tradition.
As part of a [...]

Praise Band: The Movie

This is for real. Continuing the copycat nature of Christian Guitar Hero is Praise Band: The Movie.

As if High School Musical wasn’t creepy enough!

Gaza Peace Demonstration Belfast

Attended the protest march from the Art College to City Hall earlier today. Around 1500 people turned out for the event. Predictably, it was a wide and varied group of people. Thankfully the smaller protests planned by the likes of the Ireland-Palestine solidarity movement were cancelled and subsumed into this larger event arranged by the [...]

Church Sign Generator

Check this out – have a go at creating your own church service like below!

What if Starbucks marketed like a church?

A large church quite close to where we live has recently opened a rather swish coffee shop as part of its renovation programme. I guess quite a lot of churches have developed an almost corporate identity to their work in order to reach out to more people. Bit uncomfortable with this, but what if the [...]

White poppies on Sunday

Spurred on by challenging posts from other bloggers, the Belfast homecoming parade of last week, and probably by the giddy hopefulness of events in the US, I decided to purchase a pack of ten white poppies. Thankfully by the end of the week all ten had been taken by people. Sunday night in church felt [...]

Poppies and parades

While the NI Executive grinds to a halt, our two biggest political parties are slugging it out on one of the issues they were too insecure to address in the first place. Our shared future exists in name only on an outdated strategy document in Castle Buildings while attention turns to this Sunday’s two parades: [...]