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Book Review: KS Moody’s Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity – A Must-Read

By on July 11, 2017 in Book Reviews, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Morality, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Religion in Britain, Secularisation, Social Justice, Sociology of Religion

If you are interested in the Emerging Church Movement (ECM) and haven’t yet had a chance to read Katharine Sarah Moody’s Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity: Deconstruction, Materialism and Religious Practices (Ashgate, 2015), you should definitely add it to your summer reading list. It is a ‘must-read’ for anyone interested in the ECM. The book […]

My New Book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland, on Newstalk with Sean Moncrieff

By on August 9, 2016 in Book Reviews, Churches & Immigration, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Irish Catholic Church, Irish politics, Morality, Secularisation, Sociology of Religion

Yesterday I was interviewed on Newstalk FM about my latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity. You can listen to the full interview (about 12 minutes) below, where host Sean Moncrieff asks some wide-ranging questions. I explain what I mean by post-Catholic, characterising it as a shift in consciousness in which the […]

Hunger Striking as Political Resistance: Then & Now – New Post on Slugger O’Toole

By on May 10, 2016 in Dealing with the Past, Irish politics, Morality, NI Politics, Peace Studies, Sinn Fein, Social Justice, Victims

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Hunger Striking as Political Resistance: Then & Now.’ It reviews a panel discussion on hunger striking at Queen’s Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice’s Spring Festival of Events, which featured republican hunger strikers and ex-prisoners Tommy McKearney and Laurence McKeown.

Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland – Author Meets Critics Session

By on April 14, 2016 in Book Reviews, Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, Churches & Immigration, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Evangelicalism, Irish Catholic Church, Irish politics, Morality, Muslim Christian Relations, NI Politics, Peace Studies, Secularisation, Social Justice, Sociology of Religion, Victims

My latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity (Oxford 2016) was launched Tuesday at the Irish School of Ecumenics (ISE), Trinity College Dublin, with an ‘author meets critics’ session.     Brian Conway (NUI Maynooth), Siobhán Garrigan (Loyola Institute, TCD), and Patrick Mitchel (Belfast Bible College) formed the panel. The book was […]

Canon Giles Fraser to Speak on Refugees at St George’s, Belfast, 22 April

By on April 8, 2016 in Churches & Immigration, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Morality, Religion in Britain, Social Justice

Canon Giles Fraser will speak on ‘Refugees: An Old Testament Perspective’ on Friday 22 April at 7.30pm at St George’s, Belfast. The lecture is part of St George’s Bicentenary Celebrations, 2013-2016. Fraser was formerly Canon at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, where he welcomed the Occupy protesters and invited them to attend Sunday worship. He is now […]

Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Book Launch and Author Meets Critics Session on 12 April in Dublin

By on March 21, 2016 in Book Reviews, Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, Churches & Immigration, Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, Evangelicalism, Irish Catholic Church, Morality, Muslim Christian Relations, Secularisation, Social Justice, Sociology of Religion, Victims

I’m delighted to announce that the launch of my new book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity (Oxford, 2016) will be marked with an Author Meets Critics session at the Irish School of Ecumenics in Dublin on 12 April at 6 pm. I’m looking forward to hearing what the readers have to say about the […]

Reflection on Up Standing: Stories of Courage from Northern Ireland

By on March 16, 2016 in Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Irish Catholic Church, Morality, NI Politics, Peace Studies, Social Justice, Uncategorized, Victims

Last night I took part in an event, ‘The Past is a Moving Picture: Screening of the film Up Standing: Stories of Courage from Northern Ireland,’ in Imagine: the Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics. I was asked for a short reflection on the film, which I’ve reproduced below. While the most powerful part of the night was […]

A Fresh Listen to the Parable of the Prodigal Son: The Rostrevor Benedictines, the Prodigal Girl, and Acknowledging the Abuses in the Catholic Church in Ireland

By on March 8, 2016 in Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Irish Catholic Church, Morality, Social Justice, Sociology of Religion, Victims

In the Catholic liturgical calendar, the gospel reading this past Sunday was the parable of the prodigal son. This parable is so well-known, and its meaning so widely assumed, that I suspect many find it difficult to hear the story with fresh and attentive ears. That’s why I so appreciated Kester Brewin’s alternative reading of […]