EDITORIAL – KINDNESS COUNTS Kindness – a word that crops up in various connotations in this issue of the Gazette. Courtesy, civility, generosity, understanding, thoughtfulness, compassion – different words for essentially the same thing – being kind to others. The Rev Linda Frost refers to…

Editorial A ROLE FOR EVERY CHILD Like most families, we have our Christmas traditions, including re- watching our favourite festive films, Polar Express and Love Actually, and the more recent additions, Frozen and Nativity. Not all focus on the Christmas story itself, but still leave…

Editorial – A PLACE TO CALL HOME The deaths last month of 39 people whose bodies were discovered in a container lorry which had travelled to the UK from Belgium is nothing short of horrific. Migrants. Refugees. Asylum seekers. Whatever ‘category’ they may fall into,…

Editorial BREXIT – EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT. Home news LIFE-SIZE CROSS IS DEDICATED AT DOWN CATHEDRAL BISHOP ALAN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT DIOCESAN SYNOD –  DANGER OF ‘OBSESSION WITH REGULATIONS – By Brian Donaldson RESOURCES FOCUS ON HOMELESSNESS ORPHAN SOCIETY MARKS 175 YEARS THE INSPIRATION OF ST PATRICK EVENTS TO MARK…

Editorial – THE PRIVILEGE OF TELLING STORIES Little did I know when I was introduced to the Church of Ireland Gazette more than 13 years ago, that I would one day have the privilege of becoming its editor. In my years as part-time diocesancommunications officer in…

Editorial – BEYOND ANGER AND NOISE In his presidential speech to the 2019 General Synod, Archbishop Clarke said: “If the Church is to be – as Christ calls it to be – a beacon for grace and truth, it cannot live in a ghetto designed…