religionsHot Press recently asked all its contributors to go out one Sunday morning and do a big “Mass Review” of religious services in Ireland. I chose to go to the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy.
The observer effect refers to changes that the act of observing will make on the phenomenon being observed. Anticipating that slipping in [...]
I’ve just come from a funeral Mass. It wasn’t someone I was close to, but someone whom I’ve known since boyhood, a kind and funny man. I was glad to pay my respects. And, as he was a lifelong member of a choir, they raised the roof in a poignant melodic tribute.Since my teenage years, [...]
This first appeared in Hot Press in 2004.
I was given the book for Christmas, as something I “should” read. Not the most enticing of invitations, especially for me. I won’t be told. “Coming Out – Irish Gay Experiences” is, I concede, something I should have on my bookshelf. Which mostly means it stays on the [...]
The recent report, Straight Talk, commissioned by the Department of Education, on gay and lesbian issues in secondary schools, reminds us of the price we have paid (and continue to pay) for letting the Church take over the responsibility of educating children in Ireland. When it comes to relationships and sexuality, the Catholic Church’s homophobic [...]
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I am at my parents and have installed wireless broadband for them for the first time, and I’m like a kid in a sweetshop. Living on 64k ISDN is painful.
This is one of the funniest little things I’ve seen in ages, from Google Video:
(T)he allegations… “standing whilst naked watching X whilst X was getting changed to take a shower in a manner which X found uncomfortable; getting into the shower next to X, turning to face X without turning on the shower and starting to masturbate and leaving the showers with an erect penis and watching X in [...]
When they came for the communists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a communist.
When they came for the socialists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a socialist.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When [...]
The brochure is out for the Pink Therapy conference for psychotherapists and counsellors on 16th-17th June in London. This year’s theme is “Intimate Affairs: Sexual Minorities and Relationships”. I’m holding a men-only workshop on the Saturday, about men and sex, and how we square it with our spiritual and psychological beliefs. As always, Morrissey says [...]
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