Speaking to the Soul

The Coming End by Jane Williams

Leah in fine voice for the Chorister of the Year final

Banbridge teen hits right notes with BBC TV judges

Christian perspective of legacy issues is examined

Considering Grace — Presbyterians and the Troubles

Belfast’s Black Santa prepares for a Sit–Out unlike any other

Meeting challenge of Covid–19 restrictions

360 Miscellany – News, views, resources, and online events

PCI’s new At Home for Christmas blog

Speaking to the Soul

Mundane Aspirations by Jane Williams

Church of England’s child protection director quits after 18 months

Claims that she faces too much resistance from clergy

Keep Christ at the Centre of Christmas message from the Irish bishops

Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference

Methodist minister Jim Rea surprises himself with second book

For 21 years he worked on the Newtownards Road, Belfast

360 Miscellany – News, views, resources, and online events

Funding for quality livestreaming service for St Patrick’s, Dublin

Speaking to the Soul

Community of Love

Living advent calendars’ offer festive fun at a social distance

A tradition recently imported from Sweden

No celebrations: Bethlehem misses tourist trade

Coronavirus has cast a pall over nativity celebrations

Tandragee church opens in suspected Covid breach

Each Baptist church is an independent church

General Synod – Work of Standing Committee Highlighted

The report of the Standing Committee (of General Synod) was presented to the Church of Ireland General Synod as it met online yesterdayday (Wednesday December 2).

360 Miscellany – News, views, resources, and online events

Hope Dawns, an online service for Advent and Christmas

Speaking to the soul

Christian discipleship remains something of a mystery

General Synod – C of I has adapted ministry in face of uncertainty, Archbishop of Armagh

General Synod address by the Most Revd John McDowell

General Synod – Three sets of qualities are needed to enable new growth

Many of us are exhausted at this stage with restrictions and with Zoom calls, Bishop of Meath and Kildare

General Synod – RCB holding in trust the assets of the Church, both physical and financial

The report of the Representative Church Body

C of I Synod – Charities Bill, St Patrick’s Cathedral Board status

Legislating for stewardship

43 Catholic priests have died in Italy’s 2nd wave of coronavirus

167 priests in Italy have lost their lives due to COVID-19

Speaking to the soul

The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness

Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral integral to Cork’s story President Higgins

“St Fin Barre’s endures as a place of inclusion, solace and reassurance”

Death of former C of I minister who met IRA’s army council in 1974

He had the courage to take risks to create spaces for dialogue

Online release of the 1970s Church of Ireland Gazette editions

Episode in the ‘Borderless Church’ presentation

Press review – Understand Ardoyne, you understand the Troubles

The north Belfast enclave is presented as a fulcrum of the Troubles

Speaking to the Soul – Bishop Dermot Farrell

Waiting for the Lord who is close

150 years ago Cork cathedral was full of expectation

Bishop Colton’s address on eve of St Fin Barre’s consecration anniversary

Bishop says pandemic may lead to a better, leaner, more authentic faith

Advent is all about crisis’