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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Tuesday 1 November in East Belfast Mission
Claire Mitchell and I are happy to announce the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, on Tuesday 1 November at 6 pm at East Belfast Mission, 239 Newtownards Road, Belfast. Tea/coffee, nibbles and live traditional music will feature from 6 pm. At around 6.45 Glenn [...]
Kester Brewin, Peter Rollins & the ‘Year of Opposition’ in the Emerging Church
Shortly after this year’s Greenbelt, Kester Brewin speculated on his blog about a coming ‘year of opposition’ to the ‘theological direction that a few of us have been taking’ in the emerging church conversation. Brewin wrote that: One of the things I’ve been wondering is if the theological direction that a few of us have [...]
Updates: Re-constructing Ikon and LGBT, Faith and Church Report
I spent most of last week at or preparing for the conference of the European Sociological Association in Geneva. During that time, there have been some useful follow-ups to two stories I’ve discussed recently on this blog: Ikon at Greenbelt: Reconstructing the Deconstruction In this post, I pieced together Ikon’s performance at Greenbelt, using the [...]
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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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