Northern Ireland

The band Redemption Arc are a husband and wife.  Clements and Becca - one from Northern Ireland, one from the USA.  A music critic once called them "Musical Misfits".  Perhaps there's something in that.  They're singers, musicians, teachers, and pare...

If faith is to mean anything, you have to put it to work.  Belfast YMCA has just celebrated 175 years of work, from the initial Victorian vision, through two World Wars and Northern Ireland's own Troubles, to a present where our society is still very...

Will welcomes the celebrated singer songwriter Eilidh Patterson to Studio 2 at Commission just in time for Christmas!  Click play for a musical journey of Folk, Americana, and Faith, as Eilidh tells her story of success, setback, and renewal. You'll...

Join Will and his guest for a remarkable insight into life as a chaplain in the Armed Forces.  Rev James Burnett from Belfast is a chaplain in the Royal Naval Reserve.  Known as "Bish" or "Padre", whilst on deployment he regularly hears serving men a...

One to enjoy without the younger kids listening - because we're dealing with how to teach our young people about love and sex.  Judith Cairns from Love for Life joins Will to explain their work in schools, churches and the community.  There's no doub...

In a special extra episode, Belfast man Gerry Blain tells Will his own life story, a story of turning away from God, and of being one of the worst-behaved  Bible study group members imaginable!  But God called Gerry back to Himself.  His witness ever...

Lisa Keys is the Chief Officer of Boys Brigade Northern Ireland  An experienced business leader, she has steered the organisation through a major change as it began to work in partnership with, rather than as part of, the BB in Great Britain.  BB NI...

David Blevins is the Senior Ireland Correspondent for Sky News, but is spending most of 2025 seconded to cover the biggest news stories happening in the United States.  He's been a News Journalist for more than 30 years.  In a fascinating interview h...

"A peaceful, friendly, calm place".  That's how Dr Angie Minion describes The Big House, "a place to discover more of God's love".  She's joined by counsellor, Katie Mounstephen, as they explain their work, which also includes pastoral support, youth...

   Will meets Daniel Jackson of The Genesis Network - which offers support to Ireland's people of business.  Can you imagine a marketplace transformed by Christ in an era of instability and uncertainty?  A time many describe as "permacrisis"?  Can yo...

    How do you begin to get a grip on the conflict in the Middle East?  Gaza?  Israel? Death and Suffering? What do you pray for?  Do you pick a side?  Will has been meeting Safa Hijazeen, Tearfund's Regional Director with responsibility for the Midd...

     What is Northern Ireland to you?  Home?  Or a strange and alien land?  To people using the International Meeting Point venues in south and north Belfast it can be both.  Kerry and Will have been to visit and meet the Project Leader, Rev Colin Di...

     What does "counting the cost" mean for 380 million Christians around the world? Chris from Open Doors UK and Ireland joins us to explain why they keep a World Watch List of the Top 50 countries where it's dangerous to live your faith openly. And...

     There hasn't ever been a generation which didn't quite understand its young people, nor a group of teenagers who didn't roll their eyes at their parents.  They're different.  And they're just the same.  Will and Kerry welcome Jose Cummings of Ex...

      A sadly all-too-common news story - a police raid on a property, and people rescued from their abusers.  People who'd been trafficked to Northern Ireland and forced into sex work.  But what happens after the story is largely forgotten? How does...