Archbishop John McDowell’s reflection at the MindMatters conference drew out what hope and love can mean in the context of mental health, following on from Archbishop Welby’s keynote address on faith earlier in the day.
Many thanks to the guest speakers, attendees and staff at Armagh’s Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre for the successful ‘Primacy of Peace’ conference organised by Armagh Robinson Library and the Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Library and Archive.
“Positive mental health is a journey, not a destination, and a journey that we tend to travel very quietly … and yet there can be healing,”
Mishkins, a story the late Revd Cecil Wilson told to his daughters when they were children, has been released as a book with the proceeds of all sales going to CMSI.
“What we all need to have and to share worldwide is the grace of sympathy and of empathy,” Archbishop Michael Jackson remarked as he opened the Church of Ireland’s MindMatters conference, in Dublin’s Radisson Blu Hotel, on Friday (20th October).
The thirty–third meeting of the Irish Inter–Church Meeting took place on Thursday and Friday last week (19th–20th October) in Dromantine Conference Centre, Newry. The theme for the meeting was ‘Our Reconciling Vision of Hope: Fifty years since the Ballymascanlon Talks’.
Archbishops John McDowell and Michael Jackson and Bishops Ian Ellis, David McClay, Harold Miller and Robin Eames have paid tribute on the announcement of the death of Bishop Gordon McMullan.
Archbishop John McDowell spoke on a range of current issues in the life of our Church and wider society when addressing the Diocese of Armagh’s annual Synod, yesterday (Tuesday, 17th October).
As the war between Israel and Hamas continues, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem have issued a call for a global day of prayer and fasting tomorrow – Tuesday, 17th October.
As the present conflict in the Middle East continues, we want to help you in responding in faith and acknowledging thoughts and emotions about what we see and hear in the news.
