Not long ago I received an email from 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 asked me to respond to a few questions for the dissertation he is writing entitled, ‘Roots, Shoots and Fruits: Towards an [...]
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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 [...]
Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Glenn Jordan on Honouring Evangelicals’ Stories
Claire Mitchell and I were delighted with the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, 2011) on Tuesday 1 November at East Belfast Mission. Glenn Jordan, director of the Skainos Project at EBM, shared his reflections on the book. Glenn is the author of [...]
Reflections on The End of Irish Catholicism
I’ve had several people ask me if I would be blogging about the talk I gave last week for the Queen’s University Religious Studies Research Forum, titled ‘The End of Irish Catholicism?: Exploring Extra-Institutional Spaces for Faith.’ The material I presented at the talk is still very much ‘work in progress,’ but I’m posting the [...]
Fr Charlie Burrows on Christian Witness
Several months ago I blogged about Fr Charlie Burrows, an Irish priest working in Indonesia. Burrows was the subject of an RTE documentary, which told the story of how his work in Indonesia has been a spur to local economic development and better inter-religious (Christian-Muslim) relationships. In line with the theme of my blog, I [...]
Is Non Violent Resistance Effective?
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 [...]
The Experiences of Faith Minorities in Northern Ireland–Talk on Wednesday 5 October for the NI Inter Faith Forum
On Wednesday I’ll be presenting research from my School’s Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism project at a talk for the Northern Ireland Inter Faith Forum titled, ‘Living Religion in Northern Ireland: Experiences of People of Minority Faiths in a Christian Majority Landscape.’ It will be held at the Irish School of Ecumenics, 683 Antrim Road, Belfast, [...]
Thursday 29 September in Belfast – Looking for an Evening Out? Spoiled for Choice
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’ [...]
Kester Brewin, Peter Rollins & the ‘Year of Opposition’ in the Emerging Church
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 [...]
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.
