Is Peter Rollins on a Mission? Towards an Assessment Part IV

imageToday I conclude my series based on questions posed to me by Ben Aldous, a master’s student at Redcliffe College and the Reverend in charge of the Mission Portfolio at St Martin’s Church in Durban, South Africa.

Aldous is

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Do You Identify with Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part III

imageToday I continue with the third part of my series in response to the questions of Ben Aldous, a master’s student at Redcliffe College and the Reverend in charge of the Mission Portfolio at St Martin’s Church in Durban, Read more...

What’s Liberating About Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part II

imageYesterday I started a series of posts around a set of questions posed to me by Ben Aldous, a master’s student at Redcliffe College and the Reverend in charge of the Mission Portfolio at St Martin’s Church in Durban, Read more...

What Troubles You about Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part I

image Not long ago I received an email from Ben Aldous, a master’s student at Redcliffe College and the Reverend in charge of the Mission Portfolio at St Martin’s Church in Durban, South Africa.

Aldous asked me to respond to … Read more...

Evangelical Journeys Book Review in the Church of Ireland Gazette

imageMy 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 is the Review:

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Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Glenn Jordan on Honouring Evangelicals’ Stories

imageClaire Mitchell and I were delighted with the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, 2011) on Tuesday 1 November at East Belfast Mission. Glenn Jordan, director of … Read more...

Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Tuesday 1 November in East Belfast Mission

imageClaire Mitchell and I are happy to announce the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, on Tuesday 1 November at 6 pm at East Belfast Mission, 239 Newtownards Road, Belfast.… Read more...

Kester Brewin, Peter Rollins & the ‘Year of Opposition’ in the Emerging Church

image Shortly after this year’s Greenbelt, Kester Brewin speculated on his blog about a coming ‘year of opposition’ to the ‘theological direction that a few of us have been taking’ in the emerging church conversation.

Brewin wrote that:

One of the

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Updates: Re-constructing Ikon and LGBT, Faith and Church Report

image I spent most of last week at or preparing for the conference of the European Sociological Association in Geneva. During that time, there have been some useful follow-ups to two stories I’ve discussed recently on this blog:

Ikon at

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Peter Rollins: The Apocalypse Comes to Belfast

imagePeter Rollins, Belfast native and a founding member of the Ikon Christian collective, returned to his native city last night for a talk titled ‘The Apocalypse isn’t Coming, it’s already Happened.’ Rollins has been living in the United States … Read more...

Ikon at Greenbelt: Reconstructing the De-Construction

imageIkon’s appearance at Greenbelt produced a rave review on the official Greenbelt blog, which made me feel an even deeper tinge of regret that I wasn’t there to witness the event first-hand.

As Ikon prepared for Greenbelt, they generously … Read more...