Category Archives: Gazette Issues

As children across the island have returned to school, Andy Hay takes an alternative look at home schooling, and the innovative ways that his parish, St Finnian’s Belfast, is supporting home educators. Paul McFadden speaks with Karen Jardine, Public Affairs Officer of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland about the challenges facing the PUL (Protestant-Unionist-Loyalist) community […]

Our summer issue which covers the months of July and August, is full of news, comment, reflection and entertainment. Diocesan Focus comes from Connor, and reports on the Connor Clergy Conference, events in Belfast and Lisburn cathedrals, the Connor link with Yei in South Sudan, the relocation of the North Belfast Centre of Mission to […]

Our June issue is online and in print now, and full of news from across the island with plenty of features for long summer evening reading. We have a special focus on tackling hatred and racism in our June issue, with a look at  the work and focus of the Primate’s Ethnic Diversity, Inclusion and […]

The Easter issue of the Gazette is out now and full of great features and news. In Holy Week, and in his monthly column, Stephen Farrell extols the great beauty and wonder of the Great Vigil of Easter. The return of the common cup is greeted with enthusiasm by Paul Arbuthnot, who argues that we […]

In our March issue, we ask, what is ESG, and how can it work for the benefit of the Church of Ireland? Prof Patricia Barker, a member of the General Synod and the Diocesan Council of Dublin and Glendalough explores the concept. On International Women’s Day, Rev’d Paul Arbuthnot looks at why we should take […]

The parish church of Ahascragh features on our September cover, in a watercolour depiction presented to Rev’d Henry de Vere Hunt, who served there from 1888. The parish features in our Archive of the Month for September. As record breaking heatwaves punctuated the summer months on the island, Lydia Monds looks at what this means […]

Our May issue is out now, and full of great news and features from across the island. St Columba’s church in Glencolumbkille graces our front cover, and in her editorial, editor Emma Blain writes about the precarious position this historically and spiritually significant church finds itself in.  Inside we meet royal enthusiast Rev’d Canon Derek […]

Our March issue is out now and full of great news and features from across the island. In recognition of International Women’s Day, Bishop Pat Storey writes exclusively for us about what more the Church needs to do for women, and Dean Stephen Farrell reflects on what the preacher can do to help tackle GBV. […]