Building a Church Without Walls
I’ll be taking part in a Premier Christian Media ‘Digital Church’ webinar on ‘A Church without Walls’ this Wednesday, 23 September, 3.30-5.00 pm Irish/British time. Here’s the description of the webinar:
… Read more...Decades ago, the Church in Scotland proposed a new
I have a new post (6 August) on the Slugger O’Toole blog, Feile Discussion: British or Irish or both? Unionism, Protestantism and the national question …
I links to a video of my discussion on the topic with Prof Christine … Read more...
I delivered a briefing paper for the Faith in Europe group on 16 July, ‘Identity on the island of Ireland after Brexit and Covid-19: Can the Churches Help Shape a New Landscape?’ The meeting was originally scheduled for London but … Read more...
Over the past week there has been some radio and print coverage of ‘People Still Need Us’, my report on a survey of faith leaders on the island of Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic. I spoke about the survey on … Read more...
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘The Churches and the Lockdown Legacy’. It includes a reference to my part in a conversation on yesterday’s Sunday Sequence, on BBC Radio Ulster.
You can listen to the conversation … Read more...
I have a new post on RTE Brainstorm, ‘Is Ireland Turning to Religion during the Covid-19 Crisis?’… Read more...
My latest book, Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles, co-authored with Jamie Yohanis, is reviewed as the ‘Book of the Day’ in today’s Irish Times online.
The book is reviewed by Marianne Elliott, professor emerita at Liverpool University.
The full … Read more...
An article based on my keynote address at the 2018 joint conference of the Irish Association for the Academic Study of Religions and the British Association for the Study of Religions has been jointly-published in the two journals of those … Read more...
The Irish Catholic has published a report on the 2018 European Social Survey data, noting that while there have been further declines in mass attendance in Ireland, there has been a rise in those who say they pray every … Read more...
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘What a Day Out with the Redemptorists says about the Future of the Irish Catholic Church.’… Read more...
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, a review of Margaret M Scull’s new book, The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998. … Read more...