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Lee Fischer’s Journey Through Conflict on the Provoketive Blog

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 [...]

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.

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Jon Hatch on the Occupy Wall Street Movement

“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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Living Church Report: New Post on Slugger O’Toole

I’ve written a post on the Diocese of Down and Connor’s Living Church Report on the Slugger O’Toole blog. Further discussion is encouraged on the Living Church Facebook page. Each day this week, one of the five themes is to be discussed. Yesterday took up the theme of lay participation, while today the topic is [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

Against Remembrance? New Post on Slugger O’Toole

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Against Remembrance: Seminar and Book by David Rieff.’ It includes my reflections on Rieff’s seminar, given last week at Trinity College Dublin.

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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 [...]

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Ecumenical Matters: Talk at Queen’s on Thursday 20 October and Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism Seminar Series Starts Sat 22 October

As regular readers of this blog may know, I’m giving a lecture at Queen’s University Belfast on Thursday 20 October titled, ‘The End of Irish Catholicism?: Exploring Extra-Institutional Spaces for Faith.’ The talk kicks off at 5.15 pm in the Peter Froggart Centre and is the first event in Queen’s new Religious Studies Research Forum. [...]

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.’