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23 November 2010

A shared Future

On the 27th July this year the Northern Irish government launched their Programme for Cohesion, Sharing and Integration (CSI) for public consultation. Corrymeela's response to this is now available to read.


08 March 2010

Talking about Ethics

People find it difficult to talk about ethics – they see ethics as being about being told what to do.


19 January 2009

2009 Strategic Plan

Join Corrymeela in promoting our vision of peace into the future. View the 2009 Open Events and Strategic Plan to see how you can get involved throughout the new year and in the years to come.


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Title: But What If?
Summary:
Stranger or Neighbour?
Author: Posted By
Date: 29 August 2011
Category: Poetry
Title: A shared Future
Summary:
On the 27th July this year the Northern Irish government launched their Programme for Cohesion, Sharing and Integration (CSI) for public consultation. Corrymeela's response to this is now available to read.
Author: Bernie
Date: 23 November 2010
Category: Community
Title: Talking about Ethics
Summary:
People find it difficult to talk about ethics – they see ethics as being about being told what to do.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 08 March 2010
Category: Community
Title: Judge Rules Activist's Beliefs on Climate Change
Summary:
It is clear we are moving to a situation where there is legal recognition of certain secular ‘transcendences’. Concern for the environment is one of them, as is, almost certainly, a concern for human rights.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 06 November 2009
Category: Community
Title: Forty Years On
Summary:
Northern Ireland has just remembered the start of the Troubles in August 1969.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 18 August 2009
Category: Community
Title: Blind Guides of the Blind
Summary:
What is the blindness of the Scribes and Pharisees about? It is not simply about whether to wash hands or not.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 05 August 2009
Category: Community
Title: An American Wilderness Experience
Summary:
An American Wilderness Experience: A Weekend of Conversation with the Trinity in a Shack with Sophia, Personification of Wisdom, Putting in an Appearance (Are you following me so far?)
Author: David Stevens
Date: 04 June 2009
Category: Community
Title: Living in an Age of Austerity
Summary:
The recent UK and Irish budgets reveal the full extent of the age of austerity that is opening up.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 22 May 2009
Category: Community
Title: Peace Threats
Summary:
The murders by Republican dissidents has caused enormous reverberations in Northern Ireland just when we thought we had put the past behind us.
Author: Dr. David Stevens
Date: 07 April 2009
Category: Politics
Title: To shop or not to shop
Summary:
The British economy has long been structured around consumerism – but is it really only consumerism that can save it?
Author: David Stevens
Date: 06 February 2009
Category: Community
Title: 2009 Strategic Plan
Summary:
Join Corrymeela in promoting our vision of peace into the future. View the 2009 Open Events and Strategic Plan to see how you can get involved throughout the new year and in the years to come.
Author: Jo Watson
Date: 19 January 2009
Category: Community
Title: Blowing New Year Bubbles
Summary:
Last year was a huge reality check – when the bubble we had been living in burst. The pressure from our politicians is to ‘get back on track’.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 19 January 2009
Category: Community
Title: I've Got It All
Summary:
The art of Tracey Emin is not the first place you would think to look for insight into the current financial crisis. However, her photographic self-portrait entitled ‘I’ve Got it All’ says something important.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 28 October 2008
Category: Community
Title: A Land of Enchantment
Summary:
We were enchanted by the wizards offering the make-believe economics of the bubble world. We are now shivering in the dawn, with the mother of all hangovers, wreckage strewn around us. The party is over.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 15 October 2008
Category: Community
Title: Everything Solid Melting into Air
Summary:
It is in times of crisis that things hidden become clear. The collapse of confidence in financial institutions reveals what our social life needs to function – order, stability, structure, regulation and confidence.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 13 October 2008
Category: Community
Title: The Week the World Changed
Summary:
The governing assumptions of the financial world since the early 1990s have been laid bare. The magic, mystery and aura of the market lose their power to enchant and we discover where greed and unregulated and unrestrained risk-taking bring us.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 23 September 2008
Category: Community
Title: Man of Peace Flies In
Summary:
Martin McGuinness has been in Baghdad promoting peace. Southern African and Northern Irish politicians and negotiators have been sharing their learning to help Sunni and Shia leaders to establish principles and mechanisms to move forward.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 18 August 2008
Category: Community
Title: 10th Anniversary of Good Friday Agreement
Summary:
The 10th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement provides an opportunity for reflection on where we are now and where we have come from. The focus of some of the TV programmes has been on continued sectarianism and division.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 29 July 2008
Category: Community
Title: The Bones of the Dead
Summary:
Lord Eames and Denis Bradley, co-chairs of the Consultative Group on the Past, have just given a keynote speech laying out some of the major issues that society needs to address.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 29 July 2008
Category: Community
Title: Archbishop Rowan Williams and Sharia law
Summary:
The hysteria that has greeted the comments of Archbishop Rowan Williams about a limited accommodation between some aspects of Sharia law and English law reveals something profoundly disturbing about how we regard the Moslem Other.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 26 February 2008
Category: Community
Title: Separate Communities Cost
Summary:
Sectarianism and the deep divisions within Northern Ireland could be costing the public purse up to £1.5bn a year, an official report has concluded.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 07 January 2008
Category: Community
Title: Off Teddy Bears and Other Diverse Matters
Summary:
The commentator Timothy Garton Ash said recently, ‘A great debate of our time concerns how people with different religions, ethnicities and values can live together as full citizens of free societies’.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 07 January 2008
Category: Community
Title: The Withdrawal of Funding for UDA Conflict Transformation Initiative
Summary:
The decision by Margaret Ritchie, the Social Development Minister, to terminate the £1.2m grant for a conflict transformation initiative aimed to move the UDA away from paramilitarism into community activity raises some important and difficult issues.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 19 November 2007
Category: Politics
Title: The Welcome Absence: Streets without Soldiers
Summary:
After 38 years the British Army’s active deployment in Northern Ireland has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 07 August 2007
Category: Community
Title: Shaken Not Stirred – at a Price
Summary:
The £750 cocktail has now apparently come to Belfast. Peace means hedonistic lifestyle and spending. It is house prices that really animate people – not a shared future.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 24 May 2007
Category: Community
Title: TWO CHEERS FOR DEVOLUTION
Summary:
Ian Paisley’s and Gerry Adams’ lives are profoundly intertwined, even though they had not met until Monday.....
Author: David Stevens
Date: 17 April 2007
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: Slave Trade
Summary:
Apologising for the British Role in the Slave Trade: Should we apologise?
Author: David Stevens
Date: 05 April 2007
Category: Community
Title: FACING THE GAY ISSUE
Summary:
The Anglican Communion, like many churches is finding great difficulty in dealing with the issues around gays. Read more from David Stevens
Author: David Stevens
Date: 02 March 2007
Category: Community
Title: So It Was A War Then?
Summary:
The Police Ombudsman’s report into the Special Branch’s handling of the loyalist agent Mark Haddock raises questions about how the security forces dealt with loyalist and republican terrorism and about collusion.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 14 February 2007
Category: Politics
Title: Faith & Politics Blog for 2007 NI Election
Summary:
Check out www.nielection2007. blogspot.com for a new blog about the NI Assembly Election on Wed 7 March. Christian leaders offer their thoughts on the issues of the day from a faith perspective. David Stevens begins the conversation.
Author: Lynda Gould
Date: 09 February 2007
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: MODERNITY’S ANGRY TWINS
Summary:
This decade has seen an increasing strident attack by the non-religious on the religious. The USA has also seen a rise of the religious right and of fundamentalism, some of this focused on the teaching of evolution in schools.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 01 February 2007
Category: Community
Title: The Welcome Absence: Streets without Soldiers
Summary:
After 38 years the British Army’s active deployment in Northern Ireland has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper. A peacetime garrison of 5000 remains.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 25 January 2007
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: LEADER’S ADDRESS
Summary:
LEADER’S ADDRESS at the Community's Service of Dedication held in Belfast, January 2007
Author: David Stevens
Date: 16 January 2007
Category: Corrymeela
Title: Address given by David Stevens at Rights and Righteousness Seminar
Summary:
Human Rights language is an important language of the good. It is a language that can be shared by people who have religious faith and by people who do not have religious faith.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 09 January 2007
Category: Community
Title: OPTIONS FOR TRUTH RECOVERY
Summary:
Last autumn Healing Through Remembering produced a report entitled Making peace with the Past: Options for truth recovery regarding the conflict in and about Northern Ireland.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 08 January 2007
Category: Community
Title: A Briefing Paper on Ireland
Summary:
A briefing paper on Ireland, history and key dates in the conflict.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 11 December 2006
Category: Corrymeela
Title: Learning in Corrymeela
Summary:
Learning in Corrymeela
Author: David Stevens
Date: 16 November 2006
Category: Corrymeela
Title: Communities In Transition
Summary:
Communities In Transition
Author: David Stevens
Date: 25 October 2006
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: Boasting Collective Superiority
Summary:
Boasting Collective Superiority
Author: David Stevens
Date: 25 October 2006
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: A Time To Heal
Summary:
A Time To Heal
Author: David Stevens
Date: 25 October 2006
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: Rememberance & Forgetting
Summary:
Building a future in Northern Ireland
Author: Faith & Politics Group
Date: 24 October 2006
Category: Faith & Politics
Title: As I See It
Summary:
Duncan Morrow argues that a shared future is still the only show in town.
Author: Duncan Morrow
Date: 13 October 2006
Category: Community
Title: Commissioning politics
Summary:
IRA DECOMMISSIONING is of profound practical and symbolic significance.
Author: David Stevens
Date: 28 June 2006
Category: Politics