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Editorial:
"Know Thyself"
Alwyn Thomson
Comment:
Illiberal Democracy
Alwyn Thomson
From
the Director: Good News People?
David W Porter
Balancing
on the Edge
Tony Davidson
Grateful
to God
David McMillan
Space
& Freedom
David Hewitt
Imaginative
Engagement
Keith Getty
No
longer at ease with this dispensation?
Mike Wardlow
Living
with our deepest differences
Os Guinness
Deep
Questions
Johnston
McMaster
Steady
presence
Cecelia Clegg
No
longer lonely
Joseph Liechty
Something
to give
Ingri Sakaria
Bible
study series: Faith in the future
David
W Porter
Review:
The Elusive Quest, Reconciliation in N I by Norman Porter
Bill
Brown
Review:
Journeying Towards Reconciliation, A Song for Ireland by Ruth Patterson
Lynda
Gould
Review:
Islam in Conflict:Past Present and Future by Peter G Riddell &
Peter Cotterell
Alwyn
Thomson
Review:
The R Option - Building Relationships as a Better Way of Life by
Michael Schluter & David John Lee
Anna
Rankin
Review:
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Glenn
Jordan
Summer
School Poetry
Various
For
God and His Glory Alone:
Study 6: Truth
POETRY
As part of the Summer School programme we were keen to include opportunities for more reflective moments and the introduction of a number of arts workshops provided participants with a creative space in which to process their experience of the week and to give some emotional expression to what they have been discovering. Out of this year's poetry workshop came a number of poems that reflect this process.
Here is a sample:
Stuck in a Lift
Stuck in a lift
With the dead and the living;
As an icebreaker
Whom would I choose?
I love Thomas Russell
Who walked 70 miles for a woman;
And ranged over our mountains
Like a wild Red Indian.
America's War of
Independence
And France's Revolution
Set him on fire.
The Phoenix became
ashes at Downpatrick Jail
In eighteen hundred and three.
Gerry breaks into
my lift
And proclaims the Republic;
The Irish Church
marches
To the Orange tune;
The rosary is said at the graves of his heroes,
And we have fought each other to a stand still.
"We are extending
the hand of friendship," says Gerry
and the lift doors open 'midst the swoosh of wings.
MARY HAMILTON
Note: Thomas Russell wrote in his diary for Tuesday 7th May, 1793, "Set out on foot by the way of Tempo. Over the mountains. The way lonely and wild which I like. When in these sort of places I feel so tranquil that I almost doubt whether man was formed for society. If I was confined in it for any time I should soon alter my opinion. Yet I think the woods of America with a family would afford me the most pleasure."
The Twelfth, 2003.
Men.
Later, as the sun
set,
A caged peacock,
In impotent rage,
Shook his fanned tail
In the gravel.
ANON
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