Steve Stockman

THAT APRIL FOOL ABOUT ME AND THE POPE... NOT ON POPE LEO'S ECUMENICAL BOARD! Just a blog to clarify that my comments about Pope Leo's invite on April Fool's Day about me and his Ecumenical Board... was indeed an April Fool! open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

RESURRECTION SURMISE - the earth shakes... hope buried, reborn... Easter Day Reflection... open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

The Holy Idea is dead... reflecting on this strange day BETWEEN...

Bono et al... My Easter weekend is full enough without 6 new songs to plumb... is next week ok to get back to you... mind you tomorrow's sermon has got very U2-full... there will be a Window In The Sky...

THE DAY BETWEEN - A surmise on how we deal with days when all we hope for seems locked in a tomb... open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

THE GOOD FRIDAY BENEDICTION - my Good Friday communion benediction tonight at Fitzroy's Cafe Communion... open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

DISCOMFORTABLE FRIDAY - Surmising in the middle of Good Friday I don't see good... I see other words better chosen... discomfortable... discordant... heinous... callous... for the day that is in it...open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

FLEA - HONORA - Red Hot Chilli Peppers bass player brings out a solo record and it is Monk and Davis like Jazz with Thom York and Nick Cave thrown in... my Surprise Record of the Year so far! open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

A TOWEL (A WEAPON) - Maundy Thursday... Jesus is nearing the heat of battle... As Field Marshall of his troops he lifts his weapon of choice... open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

EASTER WEEK PLAYLIST - Time for some songs to help us through Easter Week... here's the journey with reflections in songs made for the occasion... Bruce, Prince, U2, Dylan, Duke Special... open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

SPY WEDNESDAY... AND JUDAS IN US ALL - As Easter Week continues we are on Spy Wednesday where Judas loiters with intent... a look at Judas... and then the Judas inside us all... open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

loving this record from NI supergroup...

THE LESSON OF HUMILITY - Thought For The Day on Radio Ulster today had me on my Palm Sunday mantra of humility... and its importance in the teaching... and living of Jesus open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

FR MARTIN MAGILL & STEVE STOCKMAN in CONVERSATION - surprisingly the first time that Magill and Stockman have been interviewed in a public forum... the craic will be mighty... come on over... open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

DEAD GOAT - Album by Norn Iron super group, Scullion, McGinn, McCausland, McManus. If Crosby, Stills and Nash had been born in the Mournes, by Lough Neagh or further west... fighting above our weight again! open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

POPE LEO SPEAKS AGAINST WAR ON PALM SUNDAY - Pope Leo's critique of those going to war and claiming God's name and help... war in the Bible is limited to the start. It ends with the Peacemaker we are invited to follow... and what Leo said to us! open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

starting a wee Thought For The Day run in the morning... join me on Good Morning Ulster... around 7.20...

THE DONKEY, THE TOWEL & THE CROSS - a worship song-like lyric that I have written about what I have most learned in my time at Fitzroy... fitting for Easter week... open.substack.com/pub/sstockman/…

the exhaustion of holding grudges and the goodness to self of forgiveness... as shared with the nation...

ALBUM OF THE WEEK... Joshua Burnside releases a raw intimate record about grief... beautiful...