Philip Yancey to contribute to Gazette in 2019 Countdown to the monthly Gazette launch It is now just weeks until the Gazette reverts to being a monthly publication. The Gazette is excited to announce that world famous author Philip Yancey is contributing columns for the…

Armistice day commemoration at Belfast cathedral   Belfast cathedral hosted a poignant commemoration on Sunday 11th November, marking the centenary of the signing of the armistice at the end of WWI. Relatives of those who were killed or maimed in the 1914-1918 conflict gathered with…

Brexit – an Irish Church perspective Public commentary in the UK has been dominated for the past two-and-a-half years by one word: ‘Brexit’. The close relationship between our  countries means that Brexit has inevitably preoccupied minds in Ireland too. In our own Church of Ireland community there has been…

Revisiting battlefields With the centenary of the end of World War I in mind Margaret Hawkins recalls her visit to the battlefields in 2014 and how, unsettled by that experience, she found God reminding her of something in a mug. When farmers in Belgium plough…

Assessing who is Church of Ireland opens ‘Pandora’s box’ The Education (Admissions to Schools) Act 2016 was signed into law in July of this year. On 3rd October, Minister Richard Bruton commenced three provisions of the reforming Act with immediate effect, but without guidelines to…

‘We will remember them’ The First World War – 100 years on The sheer fascination that the First World War continues to exert – even a full century after its ending – may seem bewildering to many (and perhaps even rather misplaced). But there are,…