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Lee Fischer’s Journey Through Conflict on the Provoketive Blog

By on January 9, 2012 in Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Morality, NI Politics, Peace Studies, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice, Victims

I’ve just become aware of a post on the Provoketive blog by Lee Fischer, a student on our M.Phil. in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation. Provoketive Magazine is associated with the emerging church movement, and Fischer blends her reflections from our module on Conflict Transformation (taught by Alistair Little and Wilhelm Verwoerd) with her thoughts on [...]

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Peter Rollins and Being ‘In Christ’ – Responding to Monty Part II

By on December 20, 2011 in Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Morality, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

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

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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Jon Hatch on the Occupy Wall Street Movement

By on December 15, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Morality, Social Justice, Victims

“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 [...]

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LGBT Lives and Stories: Holding the Tension Wisely Report

By on November 18, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, LGBT, Morality

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 [...]

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Living Church Report: New Post on Slugger O’Toole

By on November 15, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Irish Catholic Church, Morality, Victims

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 [...]

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Michael Hurley Book Review: Christian Unity – An Ecumenical Second Spring?

By on November 11, 2011 in Book Reviews, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Irish Catholic Church, Morality, NI Politics, Social Justice

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 [...]

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Is Non Violent Resistance Effective?

By on October 24, 2011 in Book Reviews, Morality, Peace Studies, Social Justice, Victims

Is non violent resistance effective? That was the broad theme of a recent talk delivered by Javier Garate of War Resisters International (WRI) at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast. The talk, titled ‘Effective Non Violence in the 21st Century,’ was co-hosted by the Irish School of Ecumenics and INNATE (Irish [...]

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Thursday 29 September in Belfast – Looking for an Evening Out? Spoiled for Choice

By on September 28, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Evangelicalism, Irish Catholic Church, Morality, NI Politics, Social Justice, Spirituality & Sport, Victims

There are four events scheduled for Thursday 29 September in Belfast that are of great interest to me, and therefore also potentially of interest to readers of this blog. The biggest problem is how to choose where to go! Concerned citizens of Belfast and beyond can choose from the following: A Screening of ‘Unheard Voices’ [...]

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Kester Brewin, Peter Rollins & the ‘Year of Opposition’ in the Emerging Church

By on September 23, 2011 in Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Morality, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

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 [...]