PCIcast

Ben and Craig talk to Callum Webster, Northern Ireland officer for The Christian Institute, about the foundational, universal and beneficial nature of marriage and why it's important for believers to stand up for the institution of marriage, as it's been historically and traditionally understood in the church and society.

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The NIO consultation on "same-sex religious marriage in Northern Ireland" can be accessed here and the consultation on "marriage and civil partnership conversion entitlements in Northern Ireland" can be accessed here.

Whilst Ben knocks around the Craigy Hill manse, Craig is in The Philippines

Ben and Craig have a really interesting chat with Rev. Richie Cronin, minister of Trinity Cork and Aghada Presbyterian Churches in the presbytery of Dublin and Munster. We chat about how drugs, theology and the role of the church in society played their part in Richie's journey from Donoughmore in rural County Cork, to Holland, to South Dublin, to Northern Ireland and now back to full time ministry in Cork city, Co. Cork aka "the Texas of Ireland".

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Ben and Craig talk to Dr. Darryl Hart (ruling elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Distinguished Associate Professor of History as Hillsdale College, Michigan) about J. Gresham Machen, Irish Presbyterian history, confessional Presbyterianism and evangelicalism.

Dr Hart formerly taught at Westminster Seminary California, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and Wheaton College, Illinois. He is the author of a number of works, including Recovering Mother Kirk: A Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition, Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America and Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham.

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Ben and Craig talk to David Fulton (ruling elder and organist in Craigy Hill Presbyterian Church) and Jamie Maguire (currently assistant minister in Railway Street Presbyterian Church and soon to be ordained and installed as minister of Kingsmills and Jerrettspass Presbyterian Churches) about congregational Psalm singing and why it's important.

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Some resources that we mentioned...

The Free Church of Scotland's Sing Psalms

Seedbed Psalter

The Psalms Sung

and a picture of David Fulton's lovely mug (make of that what you will)

Ben and Craig pay a visit to Trinity Belfast to have a chat with Rev. Dr. Lee Eagleson about the work and ministry he's involved with on Berry Street, in the heart of Belfast city centre, and about his PhD in American church planting.

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Ben and Craig have a chat with Rachel "Cube" Cubitt. Rachel serves as deaconess in Whiteabbey Presbyterian Church.

What is the collective noun for a group of deaconesses? Do people really time Cube with a calendar? What will our book giveaway be this week? Have a listen and find out...

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Ben and Craig launch their very unofficial podcast and interview Mr Dave Curran, a final year PCI licentiate. Apologies for audio quality but we'll get there! Answers on a postcard or twitter for the episode's title paragraph in the Code.

The Moderator's Room, Windsor Presbyterian Church