Bridging the gap
As we look to renew and rebuild our society in the months and years ahead, how can we reimagine the public conversation on human rights?
It’s easy to find the gaps, those contested spaces between ourselves and others. In many ways this is good and healthy: we’re wired this way and our differences are often profoundly important.
Many times, though, we fail to see any common ground between ourselves and our neighbours, let alone our enemies. When we do, we’re conditioned to believe it can only be entered by way of...
All this frames a public conversation I hosted recently with the chief commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Mr Les Allamby. Our relationship began in 2016 when the...
Pro-choice activists turned up at our first location to protest the decision to include the Evangelical Alliance in the festival. This group deemed us to be ‘anti-women’ and ‘anti- human...
Our next stop was the Human Rights Commission. We were invited inside for tea and coffee and graciously allowed to pray for and with some of the commissioners. Following the protest and calls...
