Baptist SSM Statement
George Morrison
This week the finishing touches were put to a statement from our Leinster Pastors on the controversial subject of same-sex ‘marriage’. It will be distributed this coming week, in good time for the planned Referendum on the 22nd May. With SSM now legal in the UK (but not N Ireland) and gay unions being recognised […]
Armenian Genocide
George Morrison
In this decade of remembering anniversaries the Armenian one, which was commemorated this week, almost escaped our attention. Indeed it is not an easy task to find Armenia on the map, tucked in between Turkey on the West and Kurdistan on the East and having Russia and Syria as neighbours on the other borders. It […]
Take a Hike
George Morrison
Once upon a time you could tell when the tourist season started by the queue of Wallace Arnold busses that blocked Nassau Street! Nowadays its different tourist’s fly and motor in at a great rate. Thanks to the allure of our advertisers many come bound for the “Wild Atlantic Way”. Ireland has been slow to […]
German Wings
George Morrison
This has been a bad week for anyone nervous of flying. The downing of the Airbus A320 in a remote valley of the French Alps by a deranged co-pilot points to the impossibility of having absolute safety in the air. The likelihood is that there will always be something that no one imagined could possibly […]
The Icing on the Cake
George Morrison
Not any old icing but one that is highly provocative for those who hold the contrary view. The caption to be written on the icing was “Support Gay Marriage”. Gareth Lee a Gay activist from the local organisation called ‘queer space’, who ordered the cake, cannot be accused of being subtle! The bakery was founded […]
50 Shades of Gay
George Morrison
This week we saw another implication of the widespread ‘gay’ movement. We had noted the incredible fuss created when Asher’s Bakers refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage on the basis of their Christian profession. But that was not us. That was in the North of Ireland. They, to a certain extent, […]
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