Building a Church Without Walls
My new book, Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles, co-authored with Jamie Yohanis, was launched today at Presbyterian Assembly Buildings, Belfast.
The launch featured remarks from the Moderator Rev William Henry; Rev Tony Davidson, who oversaw the project; and readings … Read more...
My new book, Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles, co-authored with Jamie Yohanis, will be launched this month in five different locations throughout Northern Ireland.
The publisher, Merrion Press, has made the Introduction of the book available online for free.… Read more...
Rev William Henry, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and I were interviewed on Sunday Sequence (27 Oct) about my latest book, Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles, co-authored with Jamie Yohanis.
You can listen to the … Read more...
The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University invites you to attend a one-day conference on ‘Bending the Rules―LGB&T Stories of Faith, Change and Inclusion’, on Monday 21 October at Ulster University, Yorkgate campus, Room BA-00-008.
The event runs from … Read more...
In light of last week’s death of Robert Mugabe (the controversial former President of Zimbabwe), Joram Tarusarira has written a thought-provoking post on the ‘Religion Factor’ blog: ‘Loved and Hated in Equal Measure? The Religio-Political Legacy of Robert Mugabe.’
Although I am tardy in recognising it on this blog, the Irish Times covered the Irish Association conference that I participated in earlier this month at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, ‘Belief in the Future’.
Columnist Breda O’Brien featured … Read more...
I’ll be taking part in a half-day conference, ‘Belief in the Future: Religion and Changing Identity’, on Tuesday 2 July at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. I’ll be making the opening presentation, providing a snapshot of the island’s current … Read more...
My most recent book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland (Oxford, 2016) has been reviewed by Adrian Stringer in the latest edition of The Journal of the Irish Society for the Academy Study of Religions.
You can read the full review here.
An article I wrote on ‘Secularisation, Ecumenism and Identity on the Island of Ireland,’ which was published in an edited collection, Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2016), has now been made freely available via open … Read more...
I contributed to a programme on German public broadcaster NDR titled, ‘Brexit: Europe Worries about Northern Ireland.’ The programme was produced by the ‘Evangelische Kirche im NDR’, an office of the Protestant churches in Northern Germany. My contribution focused on … Read more...
A Church Times article on ‘A “new covenant” in Ireland’ draws extensively on my latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland (Oxford 2016).
Journalist Madeleine Davies analyses the changes in the Catholic Church in Ireland in recent decades, setting them in the … Read more...