by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
If you have been avidly following the US elections as I have, then you will be aware of the stories that have circulated suggesting that the leading Democrat candidate, Barack Obama, is in fact a Muslim. Earlier this month, a photo was circulated, showing him dressed...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
Pupils at Radyr comprehensive, just along from Bridgend, have been studying Malorie Blackman’s book, Noughts and Crosses. It’s a bit like Romeo and Juliet. Well, sort of. It has a balcony scene and – more controversially – a suicide. After...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
The United States and the United Kingdom are being required this month – March 2008 – to reflect on the recent heritage of their military interventions, most notably in Iraq (where the chaos and death seems to have no end) and in the north of Ireland...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
Christian and Hebrew Scriptures say that loss and grief are universal human experiences and psychologists tell us that the process of mourning is often prolonged, painful, and emotionally complex. Ecclesiastes reminds us that grief comes to everyone: “There is a time...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 20, 2008
As death continues to do its worst we find ourselves living in a ‘long Saturday’, suspended irresolvably, it seems, between the threat of despair and the possibility of hope. The former looks substantial and unavoidable. But what of the latter? By its nature, hope is...
