Last week, I wrote that I would continue responding to a comment on one of my posts about the work of Peter Rollins, written by a commentator called Monty. I posted my first response with the headline, ‘Is Peter Rollins a Universalist?’ Helpfully, Peter Rollins commented on that post. His comment saved me from further [...]
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, featuring my thoughts on the Sunday Sequence debate on a new book by John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney, Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Jon Hatch on the Occupy Wall Street Movement
“If a bunch of tents appeared in front of our church, our first words might not be, ‘you are trespassing; we’re phoning the police’, but might be, ‘In the name of the risen Christ, welcome; how do we make this work?” That’s a question posed this week by Jon Hatch in the Church of Ireland [...]
Is Peter Rollins a Universalist?
Earlier this week, a commentator on this blog – Monty – posted a thoughtful and challenging response to one of my posts on the work of Peter Rollins. Given that the comment appeared a few days after the post, and therefore may have been overlooked by readers, I’d like to bring this discussion back into [...]
Does the Emerging Church Mix with Ecumenism? Doug Gay on Remixing the Church
I’ve recently read Doug Gay’s excellent new book, Remixing the Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology (SCM, 2011), which I plan to review in full on this blog, in due course. (In due course means that we are coming to the end of our academic term, and I am even more busy than ever, so my [...]
Is Peter Rollins on a Mission? Towards an Assessment Part IV
Today I conclude my series based on 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 for comment around four [...]
Do You Identify with Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part III
Today I continue with the third part of my series in response to the questions of 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 [...]
What’s Liberating About Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part II
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 [...]
What Troubles You about Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part I
Not long ago I received an email from 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 asked me to respond to a few questions for the dissertation he is writing entitled, ‘Roots, Shoots and Fruits: Towards an [...]
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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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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