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...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a series of posts in response to Monty. He had commented on one of my posts about the work of Peter Rollins. You can check out the various issues covered in previous … 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...
Before my Christmas break, I started a series of posts on the work of Peter Rollins, in response to a comment from Monty. For readers in Northern Ireland, this week offers the opportunity for them to hear Rollins speak for … Read more...
Last week, I wrote that I would continue responding to a comment on one of my posts about the work of Peter Rollins, written by a commentator called Monty. I posted my first response with the headline, ‘Is Peter Rollins … Read more...
Earlier this week, a commentator on this blog – Monty – posted a thoughtful and challenging response to one of my posts on the work of Peter Rollins.
Given that the comment appeared a few days after the post, … Read more...
I’ve recently read Doug Gay’s excellent new book, Remixing the Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology (SCM, 2011), which I plan to review in full on this blog, in due course.
(In due course means that we are coming to the … Read more...