HOW TO HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT

March 25, 2015 by Guest User

GAY CAKES: A MODEST PROPOSAL (revised) There’s a test case for human rights and community possibility underway in northern Ireland this week. The Equality Commission is going to court to test the law regarding whether or not it was ok for a bakery to refuse to bake a cake celebrating same sex marriage. I think it's courageous and vital for the Commission to do this. The bakery is owned by Christians who hold to the view that same sex marriage is sinful, and that to bake the cake would be to endorse sin. Cake-gate has become the latest in a long round of skirmishes over rights, responsibility, and who gets to define Christianity in my home society.

IRELAND TRIP THIS AUGUST WITH DAVE WILCOX AND ME - REGISTER SOON!

March 20, 2015 by garethihiggins

I'm really excited to remind you all about the opportunity to come to Ireland with me this summer. I'm co-leading two different trips - one with Brian McLaren, the other with Dave Wilcox and Karen Moore. After the amazing success of the trips we led this past summer, we're continuing to deepen the experience, and I hope you'll consider joining us.

ST PATRICK RUSTIN DAY

March 14, 2015 by garethihiggins

Hi friends. It's St Patrick's Day on Tuesday. Delighted that plenty of people the world over will have a laugh with friends and raise a glass to the land of my birth and first 33 years. It's still home, and I'm lucky enough to get back there with work a couple of times a year.

MR TURNER IS A PERFECT FILM

March 10, 2015 by garethihiggins

The English writer-director Mike Leigh is one of the most humane filmmakers. His movies are less seen than they should be, and it’s an occasion of genuine joy that he has a new one. Mr. Turner, the biographical portrait of the great English artist, is something very rare - I think it might be a perfect film.

WHY 'SELMA' COULD ACTUALLY CHANGE THINGS

February 04, 2015 by garethihiggins

We think we know Martin Luther King, the dreamer, the orator, the man who led a revolution, whose name is on street signs, whose features are now etched in stone at a Washington memorial, who shows up in hip hop videos and computer ads, whose most famous speech may be the most-quoted in our collective memories. “Think different,” said the Mac ad, hiring the image of a political revolutionary to sell computers; even Glenn Beck featured MLK on his wall of great Americans.