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The Flying Cassowary - a blog
Sep 8, 20224 min read
A Prophet without Honour
The funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev at the weekend truly represented the end of an era in European history. As a teenager growing up in the...
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May 3, 20213 min read
Something to celebrate?
Today is a special birthday: the centenary of the birth of a new state - Northern Ireland. It was borne of political pragmatism and...
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Jan 20, 20213 min read
Polarities
How did we get here? How is it that a nation defined by its sense of fairplay and reasonableness is now locked in the zero-sum game of...
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Jan 20, 20213 min read
Bear in mind
It’s easy to think that theology is something we do in our spare time, with a glass of wine in our hand perhaps. It has become something...
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Jan 20, 20213 min read
Stuck on Brexit
The public sphere is full of talk of Brexit - hard, soft, chaotic, in-name-only. Yet, among the clamour, the voices of the Churches are...
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