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Being Blog – Ronan Kerr Was Not a Judas: Betrayal and Peace in Northern Ireland at Lent.

Here is a moving story from Northern Ireland. The death of a Catholic Constable, another sectarian crime, a belated consequence of past conflict, is a sober occasion for some serious Lent soul search.

You may read below the conclusion of the story:

In light of Ronan Kerr’s death, we spent a long time speaking in a congregational group about how Jesus would speak to the bombers. We have outrage, fear, protest, desires for justice, and desires for peace each speaking loudly within us. If we are to learn from Judas, we can learn that an ideology, taken to its logical extreme, removed from the narrative of everyday, ordinary people who wish to live a peaceful life, is a frightening and dangerous thing.

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