I was a respondent to Dr Jenny Taylor’s Catherwood Lecture, ‘When Words Fail: Religious Literacy and Post-Multicultural Possibilities’ on Thursday evening. The Catherwood Lecture is an annual event organised by Contemporary Christianity. You can read my short summary … Read more...
Category: Religion in Britain
Catherwood Lecture: Jenny Taylor on Religious Literacy and Post-Multicultural Possibilities
Dr Jenny Taylor spoke on ‘When Words Fail: Religious Literacy and Post-Multicultural Possibilities’ at Contemporary Christianity’s annual Catherwood Lecture in Public Theology on Thursday evening.
Will Leitch of the BBC and I were respondents to Taylor’s lecture. You can read … Read more...
Catherwood Lecture in Public Theology on Thursday: Jenny Taylor on Religious Literacy & Post-Multicultural Possibilities
Contemporary Christianity’s annual Catherwood Lecture in Public Theology will take place Thursday 16 April at 8 pm (7.30 for tea and coffee) at the Agape Centre, 238 Lisburn Road in Belfast.
Dr Jenny Taylor, a cultural analyst, journalist, author and … Read more...
The Divine Magician by Peter Rollins – Book Review: Is Christianity Just a Magic Trick?
‘Does that mean Pete is comparing God to a magician?’ my husband asked, noticing the title of Peter Rollins’ sixth and latest book, The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith (Howard Books, 2015).
The Divine … Read more...
The Deconstructed Church: Book Review by James Wellman on Patheos
Dr James Wellman, Professor of American Religion, Culture and Politics at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, has reviewed my latest book, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (co-authored with Gerardo Marti), on the … Read more...
The Deconstructed Church Reviewed in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
The review is offered by Ryan Burge of Eastern Illinois University. I … Read more...
Scottish Religious Cultures Network Conference 28-29 May at Queen’s
The Scottish Religious Cultures Network will host a conference on ‘Scotland’s Religious Traditions at Home and Abroad,’ 28–29 May 2015 at Queen’s University Belfast. The conference also will include an emphasis on religion in Ulster.
The conference is open to … Read more...
Godly Mayhem and Radical Theology: A Weekend with Rollins, Moody and Elerick
This past weekend the Progressive Christian Network and Student Christian Movement of Britain hosted a joint conference in Swanwick titled ‘Godly Mayhem,’ featuring Peter Rollins, Katharine Sarah Moody and George Elerick.
Regular readers of this blog are likely familiar … Read more...
Fr Martin Magill’s Ecumenical Tithing: Prof John Lennox at All Saint’s
This weekend for his ecumenical tithing Fr Martin Magill visited All Saint’s Church in Belfast, which hosted a special event with Professor John Lennox, professor of mathematics at Oxford University. Prof Lennox discussed the relationship between faith and science … Read more...
Interview about the Emerging Church on the Religious Studies Podcast
An interview with me about the emerging church movement has been published in the Religious Studies Project’s podcast series. The interview draws heavily on the research Gerardo Marti and I conducted for our recent book, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging … Read more...
Religion, Security and Global Uncertainties Report Published: New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, reporting on the publication of the Open University’s ‘Religion, Security and Global Uncertainties’ Report.
The report is available in full.
OU’s Prof John Wolffe and Dr Gavin Moorhead … Read more...