Photo above – Rev Cheryl Meban, a Presbyterian Chaplain at the University of Ulster, is due to speak at a conference organised by Mid Ulster Pride in Cookstown in April. She will be joined by Professor Laurence Kirkpatrick, who was dismissed from the church’s Theological Training College in Belfast in 2018 after saying he would be “horrified” if a student at the college was taught that a same-sex marriage was sinful.
Presbyterian Church distances itself from Mid Ulster Pride event
Belfast Telegraph
“For example, PCI’s (Presbyterian Church in Ireland) biblically faithful position that marriage is between one man and one woman, is well known.
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/presbyterian-church-distances-itself-from-mid-ulster-pride-event-38876570.html ]
The truth about haters is they are projecting on to others the guilt which they repress – Ruth Dudley Edwards
Belfast Telegraph
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Snow Patrol’s Lightbody to tell festival-goers about his upbringing
Belfast Telegraph
Other highlights include the former Church of Ireland Bishop of Connor Alan Abernethy returning to St Anthony’s Catholic Church in east Belfast, the …
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/snow-patrols-lightbody-to-tell-festival-goers-about-his-upbringing-38875242.html ]
New deal brings no hope for the unborn
The Irish Catholic
[[] https://www.irishcatholic.com/new-deal-brings-no-hope-for-the-unborn/ ]
Two bishops plea for an end to Drogheda violence
Catholic Ireland Net
[[] https://www.catholicireland.net/two-bishops-plea-end-drogheda-violence/ ]
Simon Schama: Auschwitz and the new anti-Semitism
Irish Times
[[] https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/simon-schama-auschwitz-and-the-new-anti-semitism-1.4142938 ]
New Bishop elected for Glasgow and Galloway
The Scottish Episcopal Church
[[] https://www.scotland.anglican.org/new-bishop-of-glasgow-galloway-elected/ ]
Gambling is estimated to be the cause of 500 suicides in the UK
Daily Mail
Report on how gambling is estimated to be the cause of 500 suicides in the UK every year. Includes coverage of Private Member’s Motion introduced in the House of Lords last week by the Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, calling for the law to be changed to require coroners to consider whether gambling may have been a contributing factor in a case of suicide.
[ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7902859/How-500-people-kill-year-getting-hooked-gambling.html ]
Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science
BBC Radio Tees/BBC Radio Newcastle
Interviews with Professor David Wilkinson, Professor of Theology and Principal of St John’s College, Durham University, on the £3.4 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust awarded to the Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science project.
[ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07zftch (at around 45:33) ]
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