On this day, fifty years ago, I was in a car-pool, commuting daily from our home in Galway city to teach at a school 30 miles away in County Galway. Arrangements had already been made, by pleasant mutual agreement, that I would leave the school and move full-time into evangelism and discipling at Galway University. Read more

It’s Agapé’s planning season – time to look at some Frequently Asked Questions. 1. What’s the use of planning? Something might come up. Let me refer you to the Book of Proverbs, a good part of which was written to answer that question. In summary – yes, you can plan to do good things. Take Read more

We have a new booklet! – well, not exactly, but we have a new printing of a timeless piece of material – The Life. I say ‘timeless’, but it has actually gone through a few translations (since 1966!) – from English into better English. I once ended up, for a little while, on a committee Read more

This year sees Agapé Ireland’s 50th anniversary. A lot has changed, but some things seem to keep cropping up – like the comments made by on-lookers. Here’s a sample: ‘Let people decide for themselves’. Of course they’ll decide for themselves – you can’t decide for them! That would be pushy proselytising. But, before they decide, Read more