Other - Stuff that didn't fit anywhere else

Walking Down Dada Street
Stocki gives the entire story of his Cape Town sojourn this summer. The miracle of the new South Africa, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the enemy of the shack and how on earth he got to be walking down Dada Street feeling as at peace with the world as he has ever felt... [ More ]

Building Houses in Capetown
This is an article that appeared in the Belfast News Letter about Stocki's trip to Cape Town... [ More ]

The Bible - to be Lived or Read?
A couple of recent conversations has made Stocki look at his relationship with the Bible... [ More ]

Belfast City - Any good news?
Stocki has been asked to write an article for Challange magazine about the other side of Belfast. Here he tells one man and his family's journey after Jesus on the streets of the city... [ More ]

Stocki on Life - Good or God's?
Stocki has started a regular column in Northern Ireland magazine FAITH FOR LIFE - Here's his contribution for March 2002... [ More ]

Terror in America - The Dilemma of Response
Stocki assesses the dilemmas in his soul to the events of September 11, 2001... [ More ]

Stocki in Belfast Telegraph - Shock!
Our website host appeared in this morning's Belfast Telegraph Morning Extra. He responds... [ More ]

Twenty Years Ago Today - On John Lennon's Death
With Rolling Stone running an article of what the famous were doing the day John Lennon was shot, Stocki thought some might be interested in what the not so famous were doing too... [ More ]

Ryder Cup - Even God Loses!
Stocki gives his opinions of the unseemly goings on in Brookline... [ More ]

City City City
When you support Man. City you only get a couple of chances to rave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ More ]

Ode to Joy - Greenbelt 1999
Scottish student asked me a few questions on CCM and Greenbelt. here are my answers... [ More ]

For God and Ulster?
This article was published in The ECONI book Faith In Ulster when some 50 people ranging from Archbishop Eames to James Molyneaux to Michael Longley to me were asked to write an account of what For God And Ulster meant to us. This is the pre-edited version. [ More ]

Evangelical Imagination and the Devil's hold on it
I was driving back from Ballycastle, one Sunday afternoon, listening to Paul Simon singing a song about his little town. He tells us "It's just imagination that they lack/ Everything's the same/ Back in my little town." [ More ]

Who Do You Say That I Am?
In 1966 John Lennon made a throwaway, non theological comment to journalist Maureen Cleeve that his band The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus". Beatles albums became the fuel for mass bonfires across America's Bible Belt. [ More ]

Close Enough To Whisper
Pregnancy outside of marriage, the rumours the gossip, the scandal. This is a stoning offence. A long journey in the last days of pregnancy, away from your mother, and on a donkey. [ More ]

Reflections on Christmas and a New Year
Planning A Birth, Close Enough To Whisper, Christmas Gifts, Mancester City Supporter... [ More ]

Dealing with disillusionment
"He came away from the Feltner house grieved by the imperfection of his visit. It was not as he had hoped it would be, a conversation. It was a sermon. This is the history of his life in Port William." [ More ]

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