Archive | March, 2010
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Samir Selmanovic Book Review: It’s Really All About God – Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian & The Re-Emergence Conference, Belfast

By on March 5, 2010 in Book Reviews, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Post Modern Theology

Samir Selmanovic is conducting a workshop at the upcoming ‘Re-Emergence: Christianity and the Event of God’ conference, set for March 16-18, 2010 in Belfast. If his recent book, It’s Really all about God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian (Jossey Bass, 2009) is anything to go by, Selmanovic will be looking to push the [...]

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Irish Catholic Parishioners to Pay for Abuse?

By on March 3, 2010 in Irish Catholic Church, Victims

The Irish Catholic Church has counted the cost of its abuse scandals. And it is now it is prepared to ask its parishioners to pay for it. Yesterday the Bishop of Ferns Denis Brennan asked that parishioners – the everyday Catholics who have endured the scandal inflicted on their church by their leaders – to [...]

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Matthew Engelke Book Review: A Problem of Presence – Beyond Scripture in an African Church. What Do the Masowe Apostles and Post-Modern Christians have in Common?

By on March 2, 2010 in African Christianity, Book Reviews, Emerging Church, Post Modern Theology, Zimbabwe

What can Christians in the West learn from the Masowe Apostles? Much can be gleaned from a remarkably insightful book, Dr Matthew Engelke’s A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church (University of California Press, 2007). Not long ago on this blog, I reviewed Dr Isabel Mukonyora’s book about the Masowe Apostles, an [...]

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Atheism in the Public Square: Marginalised or Militant?

By on March 1, 2010 in Atheism, Irish politics, NI Politics, US Politics

Are atheists marginalised in our public conversations, even in the largely secular West? Last week, atheists had their first ever official visit to the White House. Sixty representatives from the Secular Coalition for America met with officials and discussed issues ranging from child medical neglect, military proselytizing, and faith-based initiatives. USA Today reports that ‘this [...]