My recent book, co-authored with Claire Mitchell, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press 2011), was launched last night at the Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD, in Dublin. This follows the Belfast launch of the book late last year. Patrick Mitchel, Director of Studies and lecturer in theology at [...]
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Ken Newell on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – What Does Communion Mean?
To mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Clonard Monastery in West Belfast invited Rev Ken Newell, the retired minister of Fitzroy Presbyterian in Belfast, to speak at all its services yesterday. The invitation reflects Newell’s, and Fitzroy’s, long association with Clonard in the form of the Clonard-Fitzroy fellowship group. Newell joked that he [...]
Evangelical Journeys: Patrick Mitchel to Speak at Dublin Launch 26 January at 4.15 pm
Dr Patrick Mitchel, Director of Studies and lecturer in theology at the Irish Bible Institute in Dublin, and author of Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998, will speak at the Dublin launch of a new book by Claire Mitchell and me, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, [...]
New Post on Slugger O’Toole: Book Review of Douglas Murray’s Bloody Sunday
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, a book review of Douglas Murray’s book, Bloody Sunday: Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry.
New Post on Slugger O’Toole: Time for a Calm Debate on Northern Ireland’s Demographics
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, “Time for the beginning of a calm debate on Northern Ireland’s Demographics.”
Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
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).
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 [...]
Michael Hurley Book Review: Christian Unity – An Ecumenical Second Spring?
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 [...]
Martyn Frampton Book Review – Legion of the Rearguard: New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I’ve reviewed Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism, on the Slugger O’Toole blog.
About me
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).
Please note this is my personal site. All views are my own and are not representative of TCD.
