Building a Church Without Walls
I’ve written a new post, ‘Keeping the Church Afloat?: A Church Boat for the Titanic Quarter,’ on the Slugger O’Toole blog.
I particularly liked the BBC description of the project. Commenting on the enthusiasm of Chris Bennett, the Church of … Read more...
I’m an alumnus of one of Ikon’s ‘Atheism for Lent’ courses. Back in 2006, along with about ten others, I read Merold Westphal’s Suspicion and Faith: the Religious Uses of Modern Atheism. What sticks with me about the course, which … Read more...
What’s new monasticism got to do with the emerging church? That’s a question that receives a variety of answers in a new book edited by Graham Cray, Ian Mosby and Aaron Kennedy, Ancient Faith, Future Mission: New Monasticism as Fresh … Read more...
I cringe when I hear the emerging church described as liberal. I’m an American from a conservative evangelical background, so maybe that’s because I got so used to hearing ‘liberal’ used as a term of derision when I was growing … Read more...
Jay Bakker’s latest book, Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, Self and Society (Faith Words 2011) is on the face of it a part-biography, part pop-theology meditation on the Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.
Not long ago I got one of those amazon.co.uk recommendations for a book called, Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why it Matters What Christians Believe (SPCK 2007). How did amazon deduce my sympathy for heresy?, I wondered, before realising … Read more...
I started this blog just over a year ago. My first post was called ‘Count me Out? Responding to the Report on Child Abuse in Dublin Diocese.’ I saw this blog as a place where I could share my … Read more...
The Mission Agencies Partnership organised a series of seminars yesterday at Belfast Bible College for local Northern Irish missionaries returning from abroad, as well as foreign missionaries visiting Ireland. I was asked to speak on ‘Christian Engagement in a Secular … Read more...
Last week I participated in a panel discussion organised by the Fermanagh Churches Forum (FCF), ‘The Future of the Organised Church: Any Questions?’ The event, held at the Clinton Centre in Enniskillen, drew people from a variety of Christian denominations … Read more...
Claire Mitchell and I took part in an ‘In Conversation’ event at the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland in Belfast on Tuesday 19 October 2010. We spoke about our forthcoming book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern … Read more...
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 I’ll be taking part in a discussion organised by the Fermanagh Churches Forum at the Clinton Centre in Enniskillen: The Future of the Organised Church: Any Questions?
The meeting will be chaired by David Bolton … Read more...