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The Church is Flat, Book Review – Tony Jones on How to Move the Emerging Church from Critique to Practical Change

Tony Jones’ new book The Church is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement (self-published, 2011) offers a fresh perspective in its passionate plea for people in the emerging church to start thinking about ecclesiology. In the process, Jones tries to help emerging churches get beyond their critiques (especially of evangelical Protestantism). He [...]

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Patrick Mitchel on Evangelical Journeys: Dublin Launch of New Book

My recent book, co-authored with Claire Mitchell, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press 2011), was launched last night at the Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD, in Dublin. This follows the Belfast launch of the book late last year. Patrick Mitchel, Director of Studies and lecturer in theology at [...]

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Doug Gay – Remixing the Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology, Book Review

Last month I posted about Doug Gay’s examination of the relationship between the ecumenical movement and the emerging church, as put forward in his new book, Remixing the Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology (SCM Press, 2011). Gay’s insightful and original treatment of this matter, almost entirely overlooked in the popular and academic literature on the [...]

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Evangelical Journeys: Patrick Mitchel to Speak at Dublin Launch 26 January at 4.15 pm

Dr Patrick Mitchel, Director of Studies and lecturer in theology at the Irish Bible Institute in Dublin, and author of Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998, will speak at the Dublin launch of a new book by Claire Mitchell and me, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, [...]

Lee Fischer’s Journey Through Conflict on the Provoketive Blog

I’ve just become aware of a post on the Provoketive blog by Lee Fischer, a student on our M.Phil. in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation. Provoketive Magazine is associated with the emerging church movement, and Fischer blends her reflections from our module on Conflict Transformation (taught by Alistair Little and Wilhelm Verwoerd) with her thoughts on [...]

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Peter Rollins and the Holy Spirit: Responding to Monty Part III

Today I continue my series on the work of Peter Rollins, in which I respond to some questions raised by a commentator called Monty on one of my earlier posts. The post Monty was responding to was called ‘Is Peter Rollins on a Mission?’ I had characterised Rollins’ approach to mission as ‘anti-conversionism’ and said [...]

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Evangelical Journeys Book Review in the Church of Ireland Gazette

My new book, co-authored with Claire Mitchell, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, (UCD Press, 2011) was recently reviewed in the Church of Ireland Gazette by George Irwin. This is the Review: This book is the fruit of very extensive research and analysis and explores a wide variety of backgrounds [...]

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Fr Charlie Burrows on Christian Witness

Several months ago I blogged about Fr Charlie Burrows, an Irish priest working in Indonesia. Burrows was the subject of an RTE documentary, which told the story of how his work in Indonesia has been a spur to local economic development and better inter-religious (Christian-Muslim) relationships. In line with the theme of my blog, I [...]

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International Museum of the Reformation, Geneva: Dinner with John Calvin

I was in Geneva recently for the European Sociological Association conference. Geneva, of course, is one of the cradles of the European Reformation, probably best known as the long-time home of John Calvin and a one-time haven for the Scottish Reformer John Knox. I’m no scholarly expert on Calvin or on Reformation history, though my [...]

Evangelical Journeys Reviewed on Slugger O’Toole

Evangelical Journeys Reviewed on Slugger O’Toole

Blogger Alan in Belfast has reviewed my new book, co-authored with Claire Mitchell, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, on the Slugger O’Toole blog. It’s a thorough and generous review, which goes into considerable depth about the content of the book and the stories of the evangelicals who we interviewed.