Building a Church Without Walls
Tony Jones’ new book The Church is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement (self-published, 2011) offers a fresh perspective in its passionate plea for people in the emerging church to start thinking about ecclesiology.
In the process, … Read more...
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… Read more...
Last month I posted about Doug Gay’s examination of the relationship between the ecumenical movement and the emerging church, as put forward in his new book, Remixing the Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology (SCM Press, 2011).
Gay’s insightful and … Read more...
Dr Patrick Mitchel, Director of Studies and lecturer in theology at the Irish Bible Institute in Dublin, and author of Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998, will speak at the Dublin launch of a new book by Claire Mitchell … Read more...
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 … Read more...
Today I continue my series on the work of Peter Rollins, in which I respond to some questions raised by a commentator called Monty on one of my earlier posts.
The post Monty was responding to was called ‘Is … Read more...
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 book … Read more...
Several months ago I blogged about Fr Charlie Burrows, an Irish priest working in Indonesia. Burrows was the subject of an RTE documentary, which told the story of how his work in Indonesia has been a spur to local … Read more...
I was in Geneva recently for the European Sociological Association conference. Geneva, of course, is one of the cradles of the European Reformation, probably best known as the long-time home of John Calvin and a one-time haven for the … Read more...
It’s a thorough and generous review, which goes into considerable depth … Read more...
Claire Mitchell and I were guests this morning on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. We discussed our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, published this month by UCD Press. You can listen … Read more...
