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S P E C I a L D I G I T a L I S S ISSUE 50 / APRIL - JUNE 2021 Celebrating issuesissues5050 01 SPECIAL VOX.IE APR - JUN 2021 DIGITAL ISSUE Hope & Aid for the persecuted Church Please do help hungry Christians in desperate need. Many are already marginalised and rejected by their communities. Some are even denied food aid because of their faith Your gift can make a difference to lives Donate online at: www.barnabasfund.org/VOX Office 113, Russell Business Centre, call: +44 2891 455246 and quote VXA 04/21 40-42 Lisburn Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT9 6AA Barnabas Fund is a company registered in England Number 04029536 Email02 [email protected] VOX.IE APR - JUN 2021 Registered Charity Number 1092935 EDITORIAL A Time to Weep ave you ever had a day when It can never lead to forgiveness and you just wanted to crawl back reconciliation. Amnesia is no solution. If a H under the duvet and shut out nation is going to be healed, it has to come the world? Perhaps you’ve been tempted to grips with the past. We live in a moral to say, “Stop the world... I want to get off!” universe. What’s right matters. What’s In recent months, it seems as if the news wrong matters. You may keep things cycles have dished out an unrelenting hidden but they don’t disappear into the barrage of negativity. ether. They impregnate the atmosphere.” Jeremiah was given a tough calling So I hope you will bear with us as we to confront God’s people with the consider some painful truths together consequences of their sin and rebellion. including the legacy of abuse revealed And while his message pointed to a in the reports into the Mother and Baby future hope in Homes (page 18), the our faithful and impact of revelations compassionate If a nation is going to be about Ravi Zacharias Lord, there was no healed, it has to come (page 44) and the avoiding the ugly present day reality truth. He is called to grips with the past. of racism that would the “weeping seek to diminish prophet” for a reason. those who should be honoured (page 52). Preparing for our Easter issue of VOX There is always hope of healing with magazine - this our 50th issue - I would Jehovah Rapha (our God who heals) but have so loved to focus only on “happy, first we need to come to grips with the shiny” themes. Instead I’ve frequently past and face the truth of our present. found myself in tears conducting “Weeping may last through the night, but interviews and editing features. Like joy comes with the morning.” Jeremiah’s message, there is always hope Psalm 30:5 (NLT) because we worship a God of hope. Yet as God’s people, there are times when we need to face some tough realities. I never tire of quoting Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the subject of abuse (quoted Ruth Garvey-Williams in Parade Magazine, January Editor ([email protected]) 1998). “Denial doesn’t work. 03 VOX.IE APR - JUN 2021 April - June 2021 Issue 50 ISSN: 2009-2253 EDITOR Ruth Garvey-Williams [email protected] CONT LAYOUT, ADVERTISING & DISTRIBUTION Jonny Lindsay ENTS [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS 18 Subscribe online at www.vox.ie. All cheques should be made payable to ‘VOX Magazine’. VOX Magazine Ulysses House 22 - 24 Foley Street Dublin 1 Tel: 089 415 4507 58 [email protected] www.vox.ie DISCLAIMER The views expressed in letters and articles are those of the respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the VOX Team or our partners. The acceptance of advertising does not indicate endorsement. PRINT P32 Ross Print, Greystones, Co. Wicklow 62 VOX magazine is a quarterly publication, brought to you by a passionate team of volunteers. OUR PARTNERS: IRELAND TM VOX MAGAZINE Features and Interviews 14 Celebrating our 50th issue and Digital VOX 18 Special Report: Mother and Baby Homes 31 Finding Faith 2021 34 What Now? Responding to the Mother and Baby Homes Reports 40 My Story: Meet Glen Galvin 44 A Pandemic of Silence: the ugly truth behind Ravi Zacharias’ global ministry 48 The Covid-19 Vaccine - weighing the issues and improving acceptability among migrants 52 Global Success for Irish Teens - the inspirational women behind the award-winning Memory Haven app 56 A Listening Life - Ana Mullan continues her inspirational series 58 Heart, Soul and Hands - Serve the City volunteers are still meeting needs in Dublin and Galway 62 Meet the Young Humanitarian of the Year 2020 64 I was so brainwashed - a chance meeting led to months of involvement with a secretive cult for one university student Regular Features 06 VOX: Shorts 38 Confessions of a Feint Saint 10 VOX: World News 69 Music Reviews 12 Your VOX: Inbox 72 Book Reviews 32 Musings with Patrick Mitchell 76 VOX: PS with Seán Mullan 05 VOX.IE APR - JUN 2021 YOUREVENT.ie A division of Ross Print Services by Ian Mullen Online Webinars & Conferences Specialising in Integrated Solutions that work for Webinars or Online Conferences Our strength is in our ability to harness a variety of digital integrations for your custom online events Active Campaign Mailchimp Jotforms Stripe Zoom Woo Commerce Google Integration Wordpress Gravity Forms Vimeo Shopify Zapier Paypal Splink Talk to Ian today about your event www.yourevent.ie | [email protected] | +353 1 287 6612 key event admin services from conception to live event zoom webinars admin | google workspace admin | jotform partner web development | online supports | on-site supports | print & expo 06 VOX.IE APR - JUN 2021 VOX SHORTS NORTHERN IRISH ‘FAMILY HYMN SING’ RECEIVES OVER 1 MILLION VIEWS A ‘family hymn sing’ in Northern Ireland has received more than one million views in over 100 countries after going live on Facebook. The ‘family hymn sing’ concept was conceived last year with the first episode going live on St. Patrick’s Day while the Gettys were in Nashville. They then returned to Northern Ireland to be at home during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Gettys believe that the pandemic has provided an unprecedented opportunity to build new habits of worshiping God through song in the home. To be notified about future hymn sings and to download free music for your family to sing along visit www.gettymusic.com/hymnsing. CELEBRATING ST. PATRICK’S DAY WITH A DIFFERENCE Christians around Ireland found innovative ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year while respecting lockdown restrictions. Here VOX magazine highlights a few of those projects: St. Patrick’s display in the park - Dublin West Community Church Joan Singleton writes, “Some time ago I was watching Songs of Praise on BBC1 and they showed a church in England that put up things in a local park for the church people to read - a bit like a ‘walking church’. This created interest for people who were walking in the park and could read the notices. I thought, it would be great if we could do that as a church in our local park. 07 VOX.IE APR - JUN 2021 VOX MAGAZINE “As people could not have a St. recorded themselves reading a section of Patrick’s Day Parade or other celebrations, the Confession.” I thought we could do this for St. Patrick’s Using the Royal Irish Academy Day so people could read about St. Patrick. translation of Patrick’s Confession, I chatted with the team in church who available on confessio.ie, with their were enthusiastic. We got permission permission, the final video is now from the council and found out lots about available on YouTube and across the St. Patrick. We decided to mainly use St. Diocesan social media channels. Patrick’s own words for the 12 display “We hope that it will be an boards. By including interactive ‘fact or encouragement to all who watch it, and legend’ questions, we hoped to interest that they, like Patrick, will know personally children as well as adults. the difference the Lord makes to those in “It has been so encouraging to read difficult circumstances,” Damian added. of St. Patrick’s deep faith and trust in God and His love for us, the Irish people. We St. Patrick’s Testimony are praying for God to use this display as The Evangelical Catholic Initiative has He chooses and would be happy to share published a readable version of St. these resources with other churches.” Patrick’s Confession in conjunction with Wild Goose Publishing, a Pentecostal St. Patrick’s Confession - Kilmore, Elphin ministry based in Bray. and Ardagh Diocese Wild Goose is the old Without all of the parades and other Irish Celtic name for the events that usually take place for St. Holy Spirit. There are Patrick’s Day, young people from across eight Latin manuscripts the Church of Ireland diocese of Kilmore, of Patrick’s Confession in Elphin and Ardagh participated in a special existence today. Written project to celebrate our patron saint. near the end of his life, “There are lots of legends and the Confession gives misconceptions about who Patrick was Patrick’s own account of and what his mission was. However, we how the Lord changed are privileged to have the real Patrick his life and used him in a St. Patrick’s preserved for us in his own words in two powerful way in Ireland. testimony writings: his Confession (or Confessio) His story is Christ-centered and his letter to Coroticus, both of which and Scripturally based. In are readily accessible (www.confessio. fact, he quotes 70 different ie),” writes Damian Shorten, the Youth and Scriptures including 22 Children’s Worker for KEA Diocese.
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