Claire Mitchell and I were guests this morning on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. We discussed our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, published this month by UCD Press. You can listen to the full interview with presenter William Crawley below. sunday-sequence-interview-31-july-2011 The main research question explored in [...]
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Religion in Zimbabwe: New Website & First Blog Post on Violence & Elections
Religion in Zimbabwe, a non-governmental project based in Zimbabwe, has launched a new website, http://relzim.org/ The site features news items, academic resources, and information about religion in Zimbabwe. It also includes a blog, for which I’ve just written the first entry, ‘Christianity, Violence and Elections: On the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference’s Pastoral Letter, “Let us [...]
Jay Bakker: Book Review of Fall to Grace – Can Churches Find Enough Grace for Gay Marriage?
Jay Bakker’s latest book, Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, Self and Society (Faith Words 2011) is on the face of it a part-biography, part pop-theology meditation on the Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. Bakker is the son of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, made infamous in the US in the 1980s [...]
Poloma and Hood Book Review: Blood and Fire – Is this the Emerging Church?
Margaret Poloma and Ralph Hood’s recent book, Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church (NY University Press, 2008), left me feeling more than a little uncomfortable. Poloma and Hood offer a sociological account of a church that has ‘failed.’ By ‘failed’ I mean that Poloma and Hood’s research coincided with a time [...]
Aidan Donaldson Book Review: Encountering God in the Margins
If you yearn for economic justice and human flourishing in the southern hemisphere, you may be plagued by the nagging suspicion that there is little that you can do to promote this. Sure, you can give to charity or even go on a short term volunteering mission, but still there’s a sense that these efforts [...]
Evangelicalism in Ireland: Slow Motion Revival or Faction Fighting?
Patrick Mitchel, a lecturer in theology at the Irish Bible Institute in Dublin, has posted a blog about ‘Irish evangelicals: unity in diversity or just disunity?’ In the post, Mitchel engages with a chapel message delivered by Crawford Gribben last month at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Gribben is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Print [...]
Re-Emergence in Belfast: De-Institutionalising Christianity
Last week as the conference, ‘Re-emergence: Christianity and the Event of God,’ was coming to a close, we were shaken out of our conversations as the fire alarms in the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, reverberated throughout the building. It wasn’t a fire. The alarms had been set off by the [...]
What can the Churches Learn from Zimbabwe’s Masowe Apostles?: Isabel Mukonyora Book Review, Wandering a Gendered Wilderness
I’m intrigued by the astronomical growth of Christianity in the majority world, and I think it’s important that Christians in the West ask themselves what the churches in all the far-flung corners of the globe can teach us. That’s a part of what motivates my research on charismatic Christianity in Zimbabwe. During my fieldwork in [...]
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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).
Please note this is my personal site. All views are my own and are not representative of TCD.
