My latest book, Unity Pilgrim: The Life of Fr Gerry Reynolds CSsR, was launched yesterday evening at Clonard Monastery in Belfast. The main speaker was the Rev Dr Ken Newell, a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and … Read more...
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Unity Pilgrim: The Life of Fr Gerry Reynolds CSsR – Launches and Discussion (22 & 27 May, 2 June)
Over the last four years, I often have been approached by people wanting to tell me a story about Fr Gerry Reynolds (1935-2015). Word had gotten around that I was writing his biography, so somehow people felt compelled to convey … Read more...
Shared Future News Report on ‘Remembering for a Better Future’: Can we Ethically Commemorate the Troubles?
I’ve just become aware of a report on the ‘Shared Future News’ website of a panel discussion I took part in last month, discussing whether the Troubles could be ethically commemorated. It was part of the Imagine Festival and organised … Read more...
Hope on Good Friday from Fr Gerry Reynolds
Some readers already may have heard the news that my biography of Fr Gerry Reynolds, Unity Pilgrim: The Life of Fr Gerry Reynolds CSsR, published by Redemptorist Communications, will be launched on Wednesday 22 May at 7.15 pm in Clonard … Read more...
Book Review on Slugger: Neither Here nor There
I have reviewed a new book on the Slugger O’Toole blog, Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality. It features a chapter by Padraig O Tuama, leader of Corrymeela since 2014.… Read more...
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland Reviewed by Adrian Stringer: ‘[an] engaging, easily read and useful work’
My most recent book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland (Oxford, 2016) has been reviewed by Adrian Stringer in the latest edition of The Journal of the Irish Society for the Academy Study of Religions.
You can read the full review here.
Extracts:
… Read more...Secularisation, Ecumenism and Identity on the Island of Ireland – Available Now on Open Access
An article I wrote on ‘Secularisation, Ecumenism and Identity on the Island of Ireland,’ which was published in an edited collection, Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2016), has now been made freely available via open … Read more...
The Churches and Brexit on German Radio
I contributed to a programme on German public broadcaster NDR titled, ‘Brexit: Europe Worries about Northern Ireland.’ The programme was produced by the ‘Evangelische Kirche im NDR’, an office of the Protestant churches in Northern Germany. My contribution focused on … Read more...
The Essence of Forgiveness & the 4 Corners Festival: Conversation on Sunday Sequence
It’s the first day of the annual 4 Corners Festival. This year’s Festival theme is ‘Scandalous Forgiveness.’ On Sunday, I was part of a conversation on ‘The Essence of Forgiveness’ on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence.
Rev David Clements, … Read more...
Church Times Features ‘Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland’
A Church Times article on ‘A “new covenant” in Ireland’ draws extensively on my latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland (Oxford 2016).
Journalist Madeleine Davies analyses the changes in the Catholic Church in Ireland in recent decades, setting them in the … Read more...
Fr Gerry Reynolds as an Icon of Christian Unity
Yesterday I spoke about ‘Fr Gerry Reynolds as an Icon of Christian Unity’ at the ‘Ormeau Churches Together’ group’s annual prayer breakfast marking the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18-25 January).
The text of my address is below.