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...
Category: Book Reviews
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...
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.
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… Read more...Review of David Latimer’s ‘A Leap of Faith’: New Post on Slugger
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘How will we Remember Martin McGuinness?: Review of David Latimer’s A Leap of Faith.’… Read more...
Publication of Jennifer Todd’s Identity Change after Conflict
Last month the work of Jennifer Todd, professor of politics at University College Dublin, was celebrated with a day-long conference at the Royal Irish Academy.
The conference was titled, ‘The Politics of Conflict and Transformation: Northern Ireland in Comparative Perspective,’ … Read more...
Review of Aidan Donaldson’s The Beatitudes of Pope Francis: New Post on Slugger
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog: Faith in the Shadow of the Abuse Crisis – Review of Aidan Donaldson’s The Beatitudes of Pope Francis.… Read more...
Catherine Maignant Review of Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: ‘indispensable reading’
I have just become aware of Catherine Maignant’s review of my latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland, published in 2016 in the French-language academic journal, Etudes Irlandaises (Irish Studies).
Maignant is Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Lille.… Read more...