I spend a lot of my leisure time running. Along with a teammate, Marty Rea, from my club, North Belfast Harriers, I’ve been asked to be an ambassador for the official charity for the 2012 Belfast City Marathon: … Read more...
Category: Social Justice
Jon Hatch on the Occupy Wall Street Movement
“If a bunch of tents appeared in front of our church, our first words might not be, ‘you are trespassing; we’re phoning the police’, but might be, ‘In the name of the risen Christ, welcome; how do we make this … Read more...
Is Peter Rollins a Universalist?
Earlier this week, a commentator on this blog – Monty – posted a thoughtful and challenging response to one of my posts on the work of Peter Rollins.
Given that the comment appeared a few days after the post, … Read more...
Is Peter Rollins on a Mission? Towards an Assessment Part IV
Today I conclude my series based on questions posed to me by Ben Aldous, a master’s student at Redcliffe College and the Reverend in charge of the Mission Portfolio at St Martin’s Church in Durban, South Africa.
Aldous is
… Read more...Do You Identify with Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part III
Today I continue with the third part of my series in response to the questions of Ben Aldous, a master’s student at Redcliffe College and the Reverend in charge of the Mission Portfolio at St Martin’s Church in Durban, … Read more...
What Troubles You about Peter Rollins? Towards an Assessment Part I
Not long ago I received an email from Ben Aldous, a master’s student at Redcliffe College and the Reverend in charge of the Mission Portfolio at St Martin’s Church in Durban, South Africa.
Aldous asked me to respond to … Read more...
Michael Hurley Book Review: Christian Unity – An Ecumenical Second Spring?
Over the last several weeks, I’ve reflected on some insights from Fr Michael Hurley SJ’s 1998 book, Christian Unity: An Ecumenical Second Spring? (Dublin: Veritas). Hurley, a founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics, passed away earlier in the … Read more...
Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Glenn Jordan on Honouring Evangelicals’ Stories
Claire Mitchell and I were delighted with the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, 2011) on Tuesday 1 November at East Belfast Mission. Glenn Jordan, director of … Read more...
Reflections on The End of Irish Catholicism
I’ve had several people ask me if I would be blogging about the talk I gave last week for the Queen’s University Religious Studies Research Forum, titled ‘The End of Irish Catholicism?: Exploring Extra-Institutional Spaces for Faith.’
The material I … Read more...
Fr Charlie Burrows on Christian Witness
Several months ago I blogged about Fr Charlie Burrows, an Irish priest working in Indonesia. Burrows was the subject of an RTE documentary, which told the story of how his work in Indonesia has been a spur to local … Read more...
Against Remembrance? New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Against Remembrance: Seminar and Book by David Rieff.’ It includes my reflections on Rieff’s seminar, given last week at Trinity College Dublin. … Read more...