Irish economist David McWilliams takes to the stage this week at the Abbey’s Peacock Theatre in Dublin for a rather unorthodox theatrical offering – a 90 minute monologue on what’s wrong with the Irish economy, why our political leaders and civil servants aren’t getting Ireland out of the mess, and what might be done to [...]
Archive | June, 2010
Sharing Sacred Spaces in County Fermanagh – A Walk with the Churches Forum
Ecumenism in Northern Ireland is in what might be described as a quiet stage. Gone are some of the outrageous events of the 1960s, when the Rev. Ian Paisley and his Free Presbyterians staged regular protests against ecumenism outside the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. But ecumenism hasn’t gone away, you know. [...]
Visioning Ecumenism Conference, June 16-18: From World Mission to Interreligious Witness
Next week the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, will host a three-day conference, ‘From World Mission to Interreligious Witness: Visioning Ecumenics in the 21st Century.’ The conference runs June 16-18, 2010, in the Arts Building at TCD. It features a range of internationally-respected theologians from around the world, all of whom are concerned [...]
Norman Hamilton Takes Presbyterian Post: Moderating a Shared Future?
Norman Hamilton was installed as the new moderator last night at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. A pastor for the past 22 years at Ballysillan Presbyterian, in a tough part of north Belfast, Hamilton can speak from experience about the urgent need for improved community relations. In his first speech as [...]
The UVF and the PUP: Is Transformation Possible? John Kyle on the Nolan Show
The interim leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), Dr John Kyle, had his first interview with Stephen Nolan today. Even under normal circumstances this would be a baptism of fire for a politician, but it was especially the case given the situation Kyle finds himself in. The murder by the UVF of Bobby Moffett [...]
Christian Aid Tax Campaign: Reform, not Charity …
If you have ever contributed to charities working in developing countries, you’ve probably wondered just how far your money is going. First, there’s the worry that your money may be going to admin costs rather than the people ‘on the ground.’ Apart from that, you may have been plagued by the nagging suspicion that throwing [...]
The Dublin/Murphy Report: A Watershed for Irish Catholicism?: Book Review
If the Pope’s team of apostolic visitors want to prepare for their upcoming visit to Ireland, a good place to start would be a new book edited by John Littleton and Eamon Maher, The Dublin/Murphy Report: A Watershed for Irish Catholicism? (Columba, 2010) The book gathers an impressive array of perspectives on the handling of [...]
The Apostolic Visitors are Coming: Wounded Healers and Healing for the Wounded?
The Pope has announced the team of apostolic visitors who will conduct an investigation into clerical sex abuse in Ireland. The Irish Times’ Patsy McGarry remarks that the Vatican has sent in ‘heavy hitters.’ McGarry says: THERE HAS never been anything like it where the Catholic Church is concerned. It is fair to say that [...]
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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).
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