Last month, before leaving on holiday, my husband wanted to check the books I was taking to make sure that I was getting a break from my two main interests: ‘God and running,’ as he summarised it. My copy of … Read more...
Category: Religion in Britain
James Bielo’s Emerging Evangelicals: Book Review
Most accounts of the emerging church have been written by insiders to the movement like Tony Jones or Doug Pagitt; or by critics such as Kevin DeYoung or D. A. Carson. But in Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire … Read more...
Protestant-Catholic Conflict: Debating Siobhan Garrigan & Stranmillis Conference 5-7 September
Last year, I reviewed Siobhan Garrigan’s book, The Real Peace Process: Worship, Politics and the End of Sectarianism. In a largely enthusiastic review, I concluded:
… Read more...‘Garrigan ends on a positive note, urging Christians on this island to begin ‘the
Is Reconciliation Making a Tentative Return to Public Debate in Northern Ireland?
My last two weeks have been more unsettled than usual, involving presenting my research at two conferences: The Political Studies Association (PSA) conference at the Europa in Belfast (3-5 April) and the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group … Read more...
Doug Gay – Remixing the Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology, Book Review
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...
Does the Emerging Church Mix with Ecumenism? Doug Gay on Remixing the Church
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...
Peter Rollins’ Insurrection: Book Review & Talk in Belfast 5 September
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...
A Church Boat for the Titanic Quarter: New Post on Slugger O’Toole
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...
New Monasticism as Fresh Expression of Church? Book Review
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...
Is the Emerging Church Liberal? Peter Rollins on Atheism
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...
Launch of Building a Church Without Walls
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...