I will be presenting at a seminar on ‘Art, Culture and Conflict’ at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin on Thursday 3 November at 6.30 pm. My talk is titled ‘Surveying Religion’s Public Role: Perspectives on Diversity, Reconciliation and Ecumenism.’ It will draw on some of the research conducted for my School’s Visioning 21st Century [...]
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Speaking About Faith: Lessons from Northern Ireland’s Faith Minorities
On Wednesday the Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity College Dublin at Belfast), where I work, hosted a meeting of the Northern Ireland Inter Faith Forum. I was the guest speaker, and presented some results from our Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism research project. This project, while focusing primarily on Christianity, has also included some research into [...]
The Experiences of Faith Minorities in Northern Ireland–Talk on Wednesday 5 October for the NI Inter Faith Forum
On Wednesday I’ll be presenting research from my School’s Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism project at a talk for the Northern Ireland Inter Faith Forum titled, ‘Living Religion in Northern Ireland: Experiences of People of Minority Faiths in a Christian Majority Landscape.’ It will be held at the Irish School of Ecumenics, 683 Antrim Road, Belfast, [...]
Ireland’s New Religious Movements: Book Review & Book Launch
The recently published book, Ireland’s New Religious Movements (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), co-edited by Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland, provides a fascinating snapshot on this island’s increasing religious diversity. Dr Marion Bowman will launch the book with a talk on ‘Contemporary Celticity’ on Wednesday 30 March at 6.30 pm in the [...]
Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism: More Research Results Now Available
Reflections on and results from my School’s major research project, ‘Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism: Diversity, Dialogue and Reconciliation,’ have become available in a variety of outlets over the last few weeks. The research team is hoping that the publication of these results will stimulate new conversations about faith and religion on the island of Ireland. [...]
Faith and Community Relations Seminar – What now for the Churches?
Yesterday Trinity College Dublin at Belfast (the Irish School of Ecumenics) hosted a seminar on ‘Faith and Community Relations: Perspectives on Diversity, Dialogue and Reconciliation.’ I presented an update on the progress on my School’s research project, ‘Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism.’ The event was part of Community Relations Week. I opened the seminar with a [...]
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 [...]
Seminar on Faith & Community Relations April 28, 2010
I’ll be conducting a seminar based on the findings of my School’s IRCHSS-funded research project, ‘Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism,’ on Wednesday April 28, 2010 from 12 noon- 1p.m. at The Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, 683 Antrim Road. The title of the seminar is ‘Faith and Community Relations: Perspectives on Diversity, [...]
Bishop Richard Clarke Elected President of Irish Council of Churches
Richard Clarke, Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath and Kildare, was last month elected President of the Irish Council of Churches. His term will last until 2012. The April 9 edition of the Church of Ireland Gazette features Clarke’s election on its front page. It reports that Clarke says there are ‘three major tasks facing [...]
The Suspension of Bishop Paul Verryn & the Zimbabwean Refugees: Problems with being a Prophet?
Last month Bishop Paul Verryn was suspended from the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. Bishop Verryn was a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner and has in recent years become well-known for opening the doors of the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg to Zimbabwean refugees. About 2,000 displaced Zimbabweans sleep in the church every night. Everyone seems to [...]
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.
