Building a Church Without Walls
Peter Rollins’ forthcoming book Insurrection is an extended meditation on how our existing churches essentially teach us to deny the Resurrection of Christ.
As such, the book is a plea to reject the religion that Christianity has become. It’s a … 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...
Claire Mitchell and I will be discussing our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence on 31st July. We will now be on in the slot … Read more...
You’ve got to love Amazon.co.uk’s publicity department. I just received one of those ‘you might enjoy …’ emails, trying to get me to buy a book for which I am the co-author!
That’s all by way of announcing that my … Read more...
Northern Ireland’s still relatively new Thomas Merton Society will host a retreat on Saturday 11 June 2011 at Corrymeela Knocklayd. There are still some places available for the event, which features an appealing programme:
10.00 Arrival & Coffee.
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A major criticism of the emerging church has been that it is too difficult to define. Its leaders are accused of being slippery when it … Read more...
I dreaded reading Rob Bell’s latest book, Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions. It has stirred up so much controversy – online, on the radio, on American television, on John Piper’s twitter, apparently – that I almost … Read more...
On Wednesday a mystery man/woman(?) called ‘RIP Ikon’ commented on one of my previous posts, ‘Heresies and How to Avoid Them.’ Back in February, this post drew a comment from regular contributor Rodney Neill, who said:
… Read more...I was deeply involved
Last month I blogged about reading books during Lent that would force me to listen to what critics are saying about the emerging church. So I wrote a review of Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck’s Why We’re Not Emergent.
The … Read more...
The recently published book, Ireland’s New Religious Movements (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), co-edited by Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland, provides a fascinating snapshot on this island’s increasing religious diversity.
Dr Marion Bowman will launch the … Read more...
