Rev Dr Heather Morris will be officially installed as Methodist president at the denomination’s annual conference in Carrickfergus on June 12.

CO Tyrone born woman Valerie Thom is an interesting lady.

Bravo to all who have transformed the Maze prison and those who were responsible for organising the Balmoral Agricultural show.

Fifteen years ago today the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement was overwhelmingly approved by a referendum of the people.

It would be much appreciated if you could publish the following. It believed there are people in your catchment area who may be interested.

The Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Edwin Poots, recently halted the current consultation processes for the proposed closures of statutory residential care homes to ensure that meaningful engagement took place.

Relations between Irish Presbyterians and the Scottish church from whence they came four centuries ago have been strained by the Church of Scotland decision to allow gay ministers.

A long-serving Free Presbyterian minister from Northern Ireland has died in an accident on the M6 in the north of England.

From now on I will be supporting UKIP.

It would appear that the Alliance Party’s Stewart Dickson MLA is unsure about the direction in which he or his party really wants to travel.

Alex Kane (‘Us and them’, News Letter, May 20) makes some interesting observations with regard to the recent census figures.

The letter from Samuel Morrison (News Letter, May 17) was as predictable as it was doom laiden.

The slogan ‘a shared future’ is constantly used by our politicians, so let’s examine how this concept can be applied to education.

Young people matter in our churches and to our churches – or do they? It is far from clear that they do. I recently came across an analysis of why young people find it so hard to connect with church life. Some of the reasons given seem alarmingly self-evident: Many feel isolated.

Presbyterian Moderator the Rev Dr Roy Patton is attending the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (The Kirk) which begins in Edinburgh today and continues until Friday next.

Paula Bradshaw (Letter, May 17) exhibits all of the key traits of Alliance representatives when talking about the creation of a shared society in Northern Ireland.

Dementia has been very prominent in the news recently and it’s good that the government finally seems to be taking this issue seriously, especially during Dementia Awareness Week (May 19-25).

In the latest ‘Together Building a United Community’ proposals from the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) there remains very little detail, but also a particular concern that a “united community” concerns only bringing together “Protestants” and “Catholics”.

On Tuesday co-First Minister Robinson branded his critics in the Assembly “a tribe of Jeremiahs”.

Jonathan Bell is right to say, on Radio Ulster, that Sinn Fein’s and the SDLP’s opposition to the National Crime Agency operating in this part of the United Kingdom raises questions about those parties’ commitment to law and order.