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Category: Churches & Reconciliation
A Review of ‘Evangelical Journeys’ – A Decade On
It has been more than a decade since Claire Mitchell and I published Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, 2011).
I recently stumbled across a review of the book by Brutus Green in … Read more...
Listening on the Twelfth: My Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster
For the day that’s in it, my Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster reflects on listening.
You can listen here, or read the text below.
Listening on the Twelfth
My first summer in Northern Ireland, I lived … Read more...
Religion Media Centre Conversation on Post-Brexit Religious and Political Divide
Earlier this month I took part in a conversation organized by the Religion Media Centre on Northern Ireland’s Post-Brexit Religious and Political Divide.
Moderated by broadcaster William Crawley, the panel included:
- Dr Eamon Phoenix – political historian and head of
Publication of Glencree Journal on Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict …
‘Well worth engaging with’: Familia Review of ‘Considering Grace’
I have just become aware of a review of my book, co-authored with Jamie Yohanis, Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles, in Familia, Ulster Genealogical Review, a publication of the Ulster Historical Foundation.
David Steers’s review begins with the wonderfully … Read more...
Fr Martin Magill’s Reflections on ‘Considering Grace’ – and some hard questions
On Saturday, Fr Martin Magill used his regular column in the Belfast Telegraph to reflect on my book, co-authored with Jamie Yohanis, Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles.
The book was part of a project conducted in partnership with the … Read more...
‘We have Won’ – Inspiration from the Buta Seminarians: My Thought for the Day on Radio Ulster
My Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster contemplates the example of the Buta seminarians during a violent attack on their seminary in 1997.
You can listen here, or read the text below.
‘We have Won’
More than … Read more...
Hard questions ‘thoughtfully and sensitively explored’: Review of Considering Grace by Graham Spencer
Graham Spencer, Reader in Political Conflict at the University of Portsmouth, has reviewed my book (co-authored with Jamie Yohanis), Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles. It has just been published in Irish Political Studies (18 March 2021).
Spencer writes that … Read more...
New Post on Slugger O’Toole: Reflecting on the Church Leaders’ St Patrick’s Day Confession
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Reflecting on the Church Leaders’ St Patrick’s Day Confession’. Is this the churches’ most comprehensive confession ever for their historic contributions to division and violence?
Launch of Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland through Engagement & Dialogue – 24 March
I’m delighted that my co-authored chapter – with Nicola Brady, General Secretary of the Irish Council of Churches – will be published in a special journal, ‘Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland through Engagement and Dialogue,’ published … Read more...