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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland

By on December 18, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Evangelicalism, Irish Catholic Church, Morality, NI Politics, Peace Studies

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).

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Is Peter Rollins a Universalist?

By on December 14, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

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 [...]

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Does the Emerging Church Mix with Ecumenism? Doug Gay on Remixing the Church

By on December 11, 2011 in Book Reviews, Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Religion in Britain

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

By on December 5, 2011 in Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

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 [...]

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Do You Identify with Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part III

By on December 2, 2011 in Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Social Justice

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 [...]

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What’s Liberating About Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part II

By on November 29, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Irish Catholic Church

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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What Troubles You about Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part I

By on November 28, 2011 in Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Social Justice

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 [...]

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Evangelical Journeys Book Review in the Church of Ireland Gazette

By on November 25, 2011 in Book Reviews, Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, NI Politics, Orange Order, Ulster Scots, Unionism

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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Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Glenn Jordan on Honouring Evangelicals’ Stories

By on November 2, 2011 in Book Reviews, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, NI Politics, Orange Order, Social Justice, Ulster Scots, Unionism, Victims

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 [...]

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Art, Culture and Conflict at the Hugh Lane Thursday 3 November

By on November 1, 2011 in Churches & Immigration, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Evangelicalism, Irish Catholic Church, NI Politics

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 [...]