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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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.”
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 [...]
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 [...]
Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Tuesday 1 November in East Belfast Mission
Claire Mitchell and I are happy to announce the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, on Tuesday 1 November at 6 pm at East Belfast Mission, 239 Newtownards Road, Belfast. Tea/coffee, nibbles and live traditional music will feature from 6 pm. At around 6.45 Glenn [...]
Assembly Wants All-Party Talks on Dealing with the Past – New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Assembly Wants All-Party Talks on Dealing with the Past.’
KJV at 400 in Monkstown: Week-Long Ecumenical Celebrations Begin 24 September
This year is the 400th anniversary of the translation of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. This anniversary has received considerable attention in the media, and there have been many events marking the occasion throughout the English-speaking world. Here in Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Ulster’s two-part series with William Crawley, The Good Book, [...]
Do Words Matter? New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog: Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland. The book is edited by Katy Hayward and Catherine O’Donnell and I contributed a chapter, co-authored with Amber Rankin, on the DUP.
Twelfth Disturbances: Blessed are the Arrogant?
There have been plenty of commentaries posted in cyber space, and angry calls to radio talk shows, about the violence around the Twelfth over the last few days. I will refrain from summarising this almost endless stream of information, or pointing fingers about who is to blame for the violence in in the run-up and [...]
Evangelical Journeys: Our New Book Available Thursday 7 July
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 [...]
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.
