Belfast and poverty – both physical and spiritual

Andrew Irwin  |  Comment
Date posted:  14 Aug 2026
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Belfast and poverty – both physical and spiritual

Ezekiel and the valley of dry bones. Source: Sweet Publishing / FreeBibleimages.org

“It is winter in Narnia and has been for ever so long ... Always winter, but never Christmas,” the faun Mr. Tumnus responds to the despair of Lucy Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Haunting, beautiful, and powerful imagery that author C.S. Lewis used to describe life in Narnia under the White Witch.

Imagery that I loved, but will now confess, I had never really understood, until God called me to minister in the place that is now home.

Winter

Winter is not simply the weather; it is the horizon of possibility in which spring is no longer possible, and the hope of new beginnings has been buried under winter snow.

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