Yesterday I started a series of posts around a set of questions posed to me by Ben Aldous, a master’s student at Redcliffe College and the Reverend in charge of the Mission Portfolio at St Martin’s Church in Durban, South Africa. Aldous is writing his master’s dissertation about the work of Peter Rollins and asked [...]
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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 [...]
Fr Gerry Reynolds on ‘Living Bells’ and A New Step in Eucharistic Fellowship
The Belfast-area initiative ‘In Joyful Hope: A New Step in Eucharistic Fellowship,’ continues this week with a celebration on Wednesday 23 November at 8 pm at St Malachy’s Catholic Church on Alfred Street in Belfast. The initiative, which began last year, is an opportunity for Christians from different traditions to celebrate communion/Eucharist together. Those who [...]
LGBT Lives and Stories: Holding the Tension Wisely Report
The Irish Peace Centres (IPC) have produced a valuable report on LGBT lives and stories, titled ‘Holding the Tension Wisely.’ Released earlier this week, the report (available here) summarises the ‘tension’ and ‘wisdom’ that emerged from a working conference held in Corrymeela in June on ‘Religious Ethics and Human Rights.’ The Report is another important [...]
Living Church Report: New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I’ve written a post on the Diocese of Down and Connor’s Living Church Report on the Slugger O’Toole blog. Further discussion is encouraged on the Living Church Facebook page. Each day this week, one of the five themes is to be discussed. Yesterday took up the theme of lay participation, while today the topic is [...]
Michael Hurley Book Review: Christian Unity – An Ecumenical Second Spring?
Over the last several weeks, I’ve reflected on some insights from Fr Michael Hurley SJ’s 1998 book, Christian Unity: An Ecumenical Second Spring? (Dublin: Veritas). Hurley, a founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics, passed away earlier in the year and this inspired me to delve into this book. This is my final post on [...]
Fr Michael Hurley on Ecumenical Tithing
In recent weeks I’ve been examining the late Fr Michael Hurley SJ’s ideas about ecumenism. One idea that I have been most intrigued by is ‘ecumenical tithing.’ His ideas were put forward in his 1998 book, Christian Unity: An Ecumenical Second Spring? (Dublin: Veritas). I was prompted to take this book off the shelf in [...]
Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Glenn Jordan on Honouring Evangelicals’ Stories
Claire Mitchell and I were delighted with the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, 2011) on Tuesday 1 November at East Belfast Mission. Glenn Jordan, director of the Skainos Project at EBM, shared his reflections on the book. Glenn is the author of [...]
Art, Culture and Conflict at the Hugh Lane Thursday 3 November
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 [...]
Reflections on The End of Irish Catholicism
I’ve had several people ask me if I would be blogging about the talk I gave last week for the Queen’s University Religious Studies Research Forum, titled ‘The End of Irish Catholicism?: Exploring Extra-Institutional Spaces for Faith.’ The material I presented at the talk is still very much ‘work in progress,’ but I’m posting 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.
