Category: Tolerance
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Barbed wire boy
I went to an all boys high school (comprehensive) in 1980s/90s Northern Ireland, a place where a friend’s mother bluntly informed me that she would struggle to send her dog, and where an adult once told me that the pupils ‘played tig with hatchets’. The teaching standards in the school were superb, the behavioural and…
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The wrong side of history?
Every generation mints its own currency of catchphrases, its own peculiar ways of thinking about and describing its world. A prominent meme in all forms of media at the moment is that of being on ‘the right side of history’ or ‘the wrong side of history’. From issues of identity and sexuality, British and American…
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No private matter – Pt.1
When we prize the interests of party above those of the whole community, when we make our perspective prescriptive, our personal preferences into binding principles, then we have lost a significant part of our apology for the Christian faith, and our voice within the Church. This is a truth which seems sadly lost on much…
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Recovering intolerants
As conservative evangelicals what we are asking for is not all that difficult to understand, nor to grant. Rather than wanting to exert a form of cultural hegemony we wish to exercise spiritual humility in articulating our beliefs, without fear of prejudicial treatment or social ostracisation. We are pleading for true tolerance, where each person…
THINKING PASTORALLY 