Building a Church Without Walls
Yesterday I promised some further thoughts on the BBC Radio Ulster documentary ‘Tongues of Fire: How Pentecostals are Changing the Church.’
Listeners might be forgiven for being surprised, even confused, by the variety of perspectives on offer in the programme, … Read more...
BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Tongues of Fire – How Pentecostals are Changing the Church’ aired Sunday, offering a speedy jaunt through the world of Pentecostal and charismatic faith in Northern Ireland. Over the course of a 30 minute programme, presenter Robbie … Read more...
Tomorrow at 1.30 pm BBC Radio Ulster will air a documentary, “Tongues of Fire: How Pentecostals are Changing the Church.” Presented by Robbie Meredith, the programme is framed around investigating the steady growth of Pentecostal and charismatic churches in … Read more...
What is God like? Is doubt harmful to faith? Who do Christians marginalise? Those are just some of the questions explored in a new book by Jay Bakker, Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I’ve Crossed: Walking with the Unknown God… Read more...
In her previous book, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why (Baker Books, 2008), Phyllis Tickle was among the first to argue that what has been variously called the emerging church, the emergent church, fresh expressions, emergence … Read more...
I plan to blog later in the week about last night’s BBC One documentary about Fr Brian D’Arcy, The Turbulent Priest. A flurry of media coverage leading up to the documentary had honed in on the controversy around D’Arcy’s … Read more...
Last month (23 September 2012) BBC Radio 4 aired a documentary titled ‘Ireland’s Troublesome Priests,’ which seemingly set out to focus on the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP)and the members of it who have been censored by the Vatican … Read more...
Last night I had the pleasure of providing the keynote address at the celebrations for Uganda Cultural Day, held at St Mary’s College in Belfast. Fr Charles Lwanga Kaweesi, who is based in Portglenone, had invited me to speak on … Read more...
Last month, a Gallup Poll revealed that Americans’ trust in religious institutions continues to decline. Just 44% of Americans say that they ‘have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in “the church or organized religion” today.’ … Read more...
Most accounts of the emerging church have been written by insiders to the movement like Tony Jones or Doug Pagitt; or by critics such as Kevin DeYoung or D. A. Carson. But in Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire … Read more...
