Today is the third and final post taking in my review of Ryan Bolger’s edited collection, The Gospel After Christendom. In my first two posts, I provided a general outline review, and then descriptions of three of the chapters I found most useful. In today’s post, I focus on three more of my favourite chapters. [...]
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Ryan Bolger’s The Gospel After Christendom Book Review–Part 2
Last week I wrote an initial overview review of a new book edited by Ryan Bolger, The Gospel After Christendom: New Voices, New Cultures, New Expressions (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012). The book contains 28 chapters by scholars and practitioners, and I indicated I would be back to highlight the chapters I found most intriguing. [...]
Jay Bakker – Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I’ve Crossed: Book Review and Interview in Belfast Tues 23 April
What is God like? Is doubt harmful to faith? Who do Christians marginalise? Those are just some of the questions explored in a new book by Jay Bakker, Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I’ve Crossed: Walking with the Unknown God (Jericho Books, 2013). Bakker, who will forever be known as the son of scandal-ridden American [...]
What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell – Book Review and Talks in Manchester and Edinburgh Tues and Wed
Rob Bell’s latest book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God (Collins, 2013), can be read on a number of levels. First – there is the level of pure enjoyment, which even some of his critics are willing to concede. Whether or not you like his message, Rob Bell is simply a good [...]
Can I Stay in the Catholic Church? by Brian Lennon–Book Review
I’ve reviewed Brian Lennon SJ’s latest book, Can I Stay in the Catholic Church?, on the Slugger O’Toole blog.
Kester Brewin’s After Magic: Book Review – What can Batman Teach us about Christianity?
It turns out Batman has a lot to teach us about Christianity. The latest book from Kester Brewin, After Magic: Moves Beyond Super-nature from Batman to Shakespeare, takes us into the worlds of literature and comic book heroes in what is an engaging exploration of how religion works. But ultimately, After Magic is a plea [...]
Fr Alec Reid and “14 Days”: Are we “Keeping the Faith” this Good Friday?
Good Friday is the darkest day in the Christian calendar. As the day passes this year, I can’t help but think about a programme that aired recently on BBC Northern Ireland, 14 Days (11 March 2013). 14 Days traced a series of events in March 1988, beginning with the killing of the Gibraltar Three, including [...]
Michael McRay – Letters from Apartheid Street: Interview and Book Reading, Tues 26 March
Michael McRay will discuss and read excerpts from his book, Letters from Apartheid Street: A Christian Peacemaker in Occupied Palestine, at 7 pm on Tuesday 26 March at St Oliver Plunkett in Lenadoon, Belfast. The event is titled, ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers,’ and will include a question and response session. Letters from Apartheid Street will [...]
Peter Rollins’ The Idolatry of God: Book Review – An Antidote for Black Friday?
“You can’t be satisfied, life is difficult, and you don’t know the secret.” This quote is taken from the back cover of Peter Rollins’ latest book, The Idolatry of God: Breaking the Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction (Hodder and Stoughton 2012). It’s a punchier summary of what he calls “the good news of Christianity”: “you [...]
What Does it Mean that Cappa Magna is Back in the Catholic Church?
For those following the Catholic liturgical calendar, last Sunday was the 32nd in Ordinary Time and the Gospel reading was Mark 12:38-44. This is the familiar reading where Jesus criticises the scribes for wearing their long robes out in public, to gain the esteem of onlookers. After that, he praises the humble widow who gives [...]
Fr Brian D’Arcy – The Turbulent Priest: Is There any Room for Dissent in the Catholic Church?
Is there any room for dissent in the Catholic Church? For me, that was the question at the heart of Monday’s BBC One documentary on Fr Brian D’Arcy, The Turbulent Priest. As I wrote in my post yesterday, D’Arcy’s 50 years in the priesthood have been controversial, culminating this past year with his censuring by [...]
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