Michael Bingham SJ

In the run-down estates of inner-city Liverpool during the 80s and 90s I felt able to work in the same way in residents' action groups and children's playschemes.  There I made lifelong friends and learnt much from their generosity and spontaneity.  I also tried to make a link between these untypically middle-class virtues and an authentic spirituality.

In Northern Ireland I cling hard to these commitments to the 'socially insignificant'.  Meanwhile I search for a rationale for reconciliation between damaged communities that does not compromise the social project for justice that faith inspires.