Jonny Clark
@jonnyrclark.bsky.social
I work for Corrymeela, Ireland’s oldest peace centre, doing Public Theology. I produced guardiansoftheflame.org documentary and podcasts. Northern Irish Kiwi. #BorderlandsBelfast
The latest Corrymeela podcast is out. It is a conversation with Palestinian theologian Sam Munayer. Sam and his brother John compiled and edited a book last year called “The Cross and the Olive Tree”. It is, as it says “cultivating theology amid Gaza”.
#RememberingMoyaBrennan One of the special things about our years in Rostrevor was the incredible opportunity we had to meet simply magical people. Rostrevor is a thriving hub for folk and Irish trad music and runs a brilliant festival every summer called Fiddler's Green.
This is a long but brilliant account of the fall of American evangelicalism. This fall is mirrored around the world wherever the tentacles of social media herd people into an echo chamber where they are exposed to ever increasing doses of this toxic ideology. open.substack.com/pub/processt...
Bonhoeffer's Warning, Unheeded: The Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism
Why the Most Devout White American Evangelicals Are the Most Captured
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I don't think there is any historical degradation or inhumanity to which the white supremacist shitheels at the helm of our nation will not now lay claim. Slavery will soon be a beneficient grant by Europe to the world. The Inquisition and the Holocaust will soon be necessary purifications.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 10mo agoOn X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
Photographer John Noltner has launched a new multimedia series called "The Troubles." It follows his recent visit to Northern Ireland and features people who are leaning into creative solutions to heal old wounds and imagine a different future. The first interview is with @jonnyrclark.bsky.social.
Healing Divides: Jonny Clark's Journey in Northern Ireland
Explore Jonny Clark's insights as he navigates peace-building in Northern Ireland and shares transformative stories of reconciliation.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates does a good job of separating “the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
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In the last three years at Borderlands we have brought together conversations with victims and ex-combatants from different sides. It was a huge privilege last night to host Jo Berry CBE and Pat Magee last night at the Black Box.
While Gaza has been the focus of our attention there has been shocking violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for many years but especially in the last two years. It is an area that has been under occupation since 1967. Israel’s actions make a two state solution impossible.
Well William Graham sent me down a rabbit hole of Ry Cooder. This is just wonderful. youtu.be/6efQ_GyQW3o?...
Ry Cooder - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
YouTube video by mbroders
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Small Wins. In the middle of dark February, as war and peace (and not much peace) fill the news, we gathered for Borderlands. We had a stunning night with music, sonnets, heartbreaking stories, hilarious, life affirming stories, and a deep sense of human connection. We meet again 11 March, Belfast
This is my Valentine. We actually celebrate it on the 13th February because that was the day I arrived in Baltimore in 2002 to visit her. 23 years ago!
Today on a day when we say the words “Never Again”, let us remember the Palestinian children sacrificed to the gods of greed, vengeance, fear and indifference. Goodbye to the children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
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One of the great Irish poets, Michael Longley has died. He wrote about the Troubles in The Ice-Cream Man and in the poem Ceasefire. I videoed him reciting Ceasefire at the Rostrevor Literary Festival in 2021. youtu.be/OEap7m1DHMk?...
Michael Longley recites ‘Ceasefire’ at Rostrevor Literary Festival 2021
YouTube video by Jonny Clark
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My most-liked cartoon of 2024 and it's a serious one 👀 Too many of us are blind to our privilege. Let's have a self-aware 2025!
“I am so glad that Jesus was born in a stable. Because my soul is so much like a stable. It is so poor and in unsatisfactory condition —yet I believe if Jesus can be born in a stable, maybe he can also be born in me.” ~ Dorothy Day
Whose woods these are I think I know / It sometimes takes a Village though.
What a gift this man was - and what gifts he gave! I am forever grateful to have learned from him, been encouraged by him, and worked with him for compassion and justice.
Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social · 2y agoTony Campolo - famed evangelist and social justice preacher - has died. There was no one like him religionnews.com/2024/11/19/t...
I wish more people read James Baldwin before the election. It’s not too late. We’re in what he called “The Final Solution”. But there’s still time for the tide to turn. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
Notes on the House of Bondage
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It is the task of the prophet to make the critical distinction between God as God and “God” as the mere deification of a nation aspiring to greatness. I first saw this twenty years ago in Dostoevsky’s “Demons.” That moment changed my life and ministry.
I help to run an event every month called Borderlands. This month we focused on the theme Dignity. I started the night by referring to a talk former President Mary McAleese gave in Rostrevor this weekend at the Literary Festival there. She spoke about Seamus Heaney being her favourite poet.
Listening to Dr. Munther Isaac, noted Palestinian priest & nonviolent resistance leader, speak with my friend Jarrod McKenna. So much to highlight, but I'll share just a little. He spoke of how our Western "prayers" are often wielded the same way Pilate washed his hands before Jesus' crucifixion.
