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The Church is Flat, Book Review – Tony Jones on How to Move the Emerging Church from Critique to Practical Change

By on February 2, 2012 in Book Reviews, Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

Tony Jones’ new book The Church is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement (self-published, 2011) offers a fresh perspective in its passionate plea for people in the emerging church to start thinking about ecclesiology. In the process, Jones tries to help emerging churches get beyond their critiques (especially of evangelical Protestantism). He [...]

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Doug Gay – Remixing the Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology, Book Review

By on January 17, 2012 in Book Reviews, Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Religion in Britain, Social Justice

Last month I posted about Doug Gay’s examination of the relationship between the ecumenical movement and the emerging church, as put forward in his new book, Remixing the Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology (SCM Press, 2011). Gay’s insightful and original treatment of this matter, almost entirely overlooked in the popular and academic literature on the [...]

Do You Understand Peter Rollins? Responding to Monty and the Talk in the Black Box

By on January 11, 2012 in Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a series of posts in response to Monty. He had commented on one of my posts about the work of Peter Rollins. You can check out the various issues covered in previous posts here, but today I deal with his final concern: that Peter Rollins is just too [...]

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 the Holy Spirit: Responding to Monty Part III

By on January 4, 2012 in African Christianity, Charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

Today I continue my series on the work of Peter Rollins, in which I respond to some questions raised by a commentator called Monty on one of my earlier posts. The post Monty was responding to was called ‘Is Peter Rollins on a Mission?’ I had characterised Rollins’ approach to mission as ‘anti-conversionism’ and said [...]

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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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Running for the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice

By on December 16, 2011 in Social Justice, Spirituality & Sport

I spend a lot of my leisure time running. Along with a teammate, Marty Rea, from my club, North Belfast Harriers, I’ve been asked to be an ambassador for the official charity for the 2012 Belfast City Marathon: the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice. I’ve written previously on this blog about the Belfast City Marathon, and [...]

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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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Is Peter Rollins a Universalist?

By on December 14, 2011 in Churches & Reconciliation, Ecumenism, Emerging Church, Evangelicalism, Post Modern Theology, Postmodern Theology, Social Justice

Earlier this week, a commentator on this blog – Monty – posted a thoughtful and challenging response to one of my posts on the work of Peter Rollins. Given that the comment appeared a few days after the post, and therefore may have been overlooked by readers, I’d like to bring this discussion back into [...]

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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 [...]