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Revd Jan van den Berg took a sip of his tea and smiled with enthusiasm as he gave me his view of race relations in Queenswood. ‘When I do my visits with my members and I talk with them about the black woman who’s working in their house,’ he began. ‘Really, it warms my heart when I see the lovely understanding between the white people and the black people who are working for them … how they try to help them, how they give them money to help their children go to school.’
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See Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (1997) Focus on Northern Ireland: A Statistical Profile (London: The Stationery Office) p. 45.
Poole, Michael and Doherty, Paul (1996) Ethnic Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland (Coleraine: Centre for the Study of Conflict, University of Ulster) p. 235.
DRC (1990) Church and Society 1990: A Testimony of the Dutch Reformed Church (Ned Geref Kerk) (Bloemfontein: General Synodical Commission) p. 36.
PCI (1994) 1994 General Assembly Annual Reports (PCI: Belfast) p. 24. 6.
PCI (1995) 1995 General Assembly Annual Reports (PCI: Belfast) pp. 29–33.
This statement was adapted from one used by Hoge. See Hoge, Dean R. (1976) Division in the Protestant House: The Basic Reasons behind Intra-Church Conflicts (Philadelphia: Westminster Press), p. 146. The statement also clarified to which churches the phrase ‘family of churches’ referred.
Dunlop, John (1995) A Precarious Belonging: Presbyterians and the Conflict in Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff Press) p. 111.
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Fawcett, L. (2000). The Church as ‘Conciliator’: The Difficult Task of Bridge-Building. In: Campling, J. (eds) Religion, Ethnicity and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983270_8
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