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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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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 [...]

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Updates: Re-constructing Ikon and LGBT, Faith and Church Report

By on September 12, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Irish Catholic Church, LGBT, Morality, NI Politics, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

I spent most of last week at or preparing for the conference of the European Sociological Association in Geneva. During that time, there have been some useful follow-ups to two stories I’ve discussed recently on this blog: Ikon at Greenbelt: Reconstructing the Deconstruction In this post, I pieced together Ikon’s performance at Greenbelt, using the [...]

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Peter Rollins: The Apocalypse Comes to Belfast

By on September 6, 2011 in Book Reviews, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Morality, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

Peter Rollins, Belfast native and a founding member of the Ikon Christian collective, returned to his native city last night for a talk titled ‘The Apocalypse isn’t Coming, it’s already Happened.’ Rollins has been living in the United States for the last couple of years, establishing himself as a popular author, speaker and voice in [...]

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Peter Rollins’ Insurrection: Book Review & Talk in Belfast 5 September

By on August 25, 2011 in Book Reviews, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Religion in Britain, Social Justice

Peter Rollins’ forthcoming book Insurrection is an extended meditation on how our existing churches essentially teach us to deny the Resurrection of Christ. As such, the book is a plea to reject the religion that Christianity has become. It’s a project that Rollins admits ‘can never be described as some project in constructive theology; it [...]

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Evangelical Journeys Interview on Sunday Sequence

By on July 31, 2011 in Book Reviews, Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, Churches & Reconciliation, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Morality, NI Politics, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

Claire Mitchell and I were guests this morning on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. We discussed our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, published this month by UCD Press. You can listen to the full interview with presenter William Crawley below. sunday-sequence-interview-31-july-2011 The main research question explored in [...]

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Evangelical Journeys: Our New Book Available Thursday 7 July

By on July 5, 2011 in Book Reviews, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Morality, NI Politics, Orange Order, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice, Ulster Scots, Unionism, Victims

You’ve got to love Amazon.co.uk’s publicity department. I just received one of those ‘you might enjoy …’ emails, trying to get me to buy a book for which I am the co-author! That’s all by way of announcing that my new book, written with Claire Mitchell, will be released in Ireland and the UK on [...]

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David Masters on Consuming Peace – Can Theology Contribute to Peace in Ireland?

By on June 29, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Dealing with the Past, Ecumenism, NI Politics, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

Earlier this month I started a series of blog posts reviewing chapters in an Irish Peace Centres’ publication, Studying Faith, Practising Peace, which asked graduate students in theology to address the question: ‘Do theological studies make a tangible and practical contribution to peace on the island of Ireland?’ There are a few more chapters which [...]

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Thomas Merton Society Retreat, 11 June 2011

By on May 31, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Irish Catholic Church, Muslim Christian Relations, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

Northern Ireland’s still relatively new Thomas Merton Society will host a retreat on Saturday 11 June 2011 at Corrymeela Knocklayd. There are still some places available for the event, which features an appealing programme: 10.00     Arrival & Coffee. 10.20     Welcome, Introductions and a Brief Period of Silent Reflection. 10.30     Film – Merton: A Film Biography [...]