The true Christian radicals

The history of God's great work in the earth has left a 'great cloud of witnesses' (Hebrews 12:1,2) in every generation, totally committed believers whose lives were sold out to God and who lived by faith in his promises. Who were they and why have most people never heard of them?

Picture: Menno Simons, after whom the Mennonites are named

XL Express starts Sept

Trinity's XL training academy Term 1 starts at The Exchange 23 September, running Thursday evenings for 6 weeks. Choose from three options each term. Term 1 includes 'God & the Philosophers', 'Digging Deeper' (how to study the Bible), and 'The Parenting Course'.

Great events at The Exchange Sep-Oct '10

Sep 11: New Irish Choir & Orchestra

Oct 1-2: City2City conference (details soon)

Oct 9-10: Jason Upton concert (details soon)

Barrind's Wonderful Island

One of the most delightful of the early Irish Christian texts tells of the wonderful voyage of Barrind. The journey begins at an island monastery in Co. Donegal, and passes through a strange fog to another island, a magical place of shadowless light that is like the heavenly New Jerusalem. 

Meet Someone Magnificent

Yourself. Someone up there actually does love you and thinks you're great. Discover the real amazing you - your magnificent true identity and destiny. Begin right here, today.

President McAleese at Exchange

It could have been in a movie. A team of ex-offenders presenting President Mary McAleese with flowers while 400 invited guests from all over Ireland stood in an emotional applause.

Photo by Johnny Pardoe

Prof: economic failure 'sin'

"We are talking about 'sin' here" says Professor Ray Kinsella of University College Dublin on the moral failure and absence of trust at the root of the economic collapse. Read full article in the Irish Times here.

Photo: The Dept of Finance at Government Buildings Dublin (© Fergus Ryan)

Blinded By Science?

Richard Dawkins, Oxford's High Priest of atheism preaches that religious faith is a mental illness. But not all his scientific colleagues agree. Has Dawkins been blinded by science? See related science items: God Is Not Dead Yet by William Lane Craig (Christianity Today website) and Do Science and Faith Really Conflict? by Prof Andrew Bowie, PhD, FTCD.

Revisiting your own Shack

William Paul Young's moving and inspirational best-seller has attracted both praise and strong controversy, with 'God' as a smart-talkin' black woman called Papa. I stayed up all night reading it. So what's it about and why is it so controversial?

Dan Crowley, pensioner and poet, struck up conversation about women priests with a young Trinity Church member. He recorded his subsequent encounter with Jesus as 'incandescent happiness'. Other poems by Trinitarians Áine Darling, John McKeever, Audrey Talbot and  Trish Phillips.  Photos: Audrey (left) and Trish.