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2 min read 2022-04-30 14:49:00

DAD'S DEATH AND MY PRIVILEGED MOMENT

For some five years I have wondered about my father’s death. My mum passed away in 2016, the toll of her devotional love and care for dad. Since

2 min read 2022-04-30 13:41:02

For some five years I have wondered about my father’s death. My mum passed away in 2016, the toll of her devotional love and care for dad. Since

2 min read 2022-04-28 22:42:25

I wanted to thank you all for the support we have felt from you all on social media as we sit by my dad's hospital bed. I felt that it was too

4 min read 2022-04-26 04:30:42

It is not every day that you get to meet the Pope. Even less chance if you are a Presbyterian minister. Yet, today, that is exactly what my

3 min read 2022-04-22 03:56:44

On Monday morning (April 25th) I am hoping to be ushered in to a private audience with Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace in Rome. That is an

2 min read 2022-03-31 22:22:59

This past week the number of hits on this Soul Surmise blog reached 1 million hits. I set it up around 15 years ago but didn’t shift over from my

5 min read 2022-03-30 00:51:26

(We recently lost the beautiful human Daniel Fry. This is the Tribute I shared at the Service of Love and Thanksgiving, in Fitzroy on March 29,

3 min read 2022-02-14 03:11:45

“Hairstyles and attitudes Are they connected Are the styles we embrace A matter of taste Or of values rejected” - Timbuk 3 I joked with

1 min read 2021-11-03 23:04:50

Fr Martin Magill and I are absolutely thrilled with todays big announcement in the Belfast Telegraph of the total donated to our BIG 60TH BIRTHDAY

1 min read 2021-10-12 21:48:23

Much as I loved the surprise parties thrown for my 40th and 50th birthdays I had my family under strict orders that I didn't want big party for my

1 min read 2021-09-21 22:11:30

photo: Bernie Brown "Old friends Sat on a park bench like bookends..." (Paul Simon) My good friend Fr Martin Magill was 60 back on

2 min read 2021-01-05 04:56:48

I can only describe it as the carry of a river. My dad used to talk about the carry. It was up the river from my Granny's thatched cottage in

3 min read 2020-12-30 21:29:42

It is a process that I am not sure if I have fully processed. Three months into Coronavirus lockdown and I found myself in hospital. It was sudden.

3 min read 2020-12-29 22:20:44

2020 started well. The 4 Corners Festival was a good one. I got to interview both Ken Haddock and Gary Lightbody to full houses in Fitzroy. This is

3 min read 2020-12-18 01:40:54

(This is my foreword from Trevor Stevenson's memoir that I have co-written with him. This gives you a flavour of why I was excited to be involved