I have a both a scholarly and a personal interest in emergence Christianity. It’s no secret that among those involved with emergence Christianity, criticism of church institutions is quite fashionable these days. There are some within emergence Christianity who think that the churches have entirely missed the point about Jesus and his life on Earth. [...]
Archive | April, 2010
Easter Sunday in Ireland: Apology & Protest
The Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, sparked controversy this weekend when the content of an interview that is scheduled to be broadcast Monday on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week was revealed. In it Williams proclaimed that the Catholic Church in Ireland had lost all credibility. In what served as an apt demonstration [...]
Enda McDonagh Book Review: Theology in Winter Light. Reflections for Good Friday
The Epilogue to Enda McDonagh’s latest book, Theology in Winter Light (Columba, 2010) is titled ‘A Crucified People.’ It opens with a quotation from the Gospel of Mark (15.33): And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour. McDonagh’s epilogue was written last November in the [...]
About me
Welcome to Building a Church Without Walls, a website for people who are excited about how Christianity is developing in the 21st Century. I am a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies Programme at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast (the Irish School of Ecumenics).
Please note this is my personal site. All views are my own and are not representative of TCD.
