Churches & Reconciliation – Page 3

On Fr Gerry Reynolds and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

The annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18-25 January) was always important for Fr Gerry Reynolds (d. 2015). My biography of Fr Gerry, Unity Pilgrim, recounts a number of events during Weeks of Prayer for Christian Unity in Belfast, … Read more...

Presbyterians, Forgiveness, and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: article published in special issue

‘Presbyterians, Forgiveness, and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Towards Gracious Remembering,’ by Jamie Yohanis and me, has been published in a special issue of Religions, co-edited by Joram Tarusarira and me.

The article draws on the research … Read more...

My review of Crawford Gribben’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland’, on Slugger

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, my review of Crawford Gribben’s excellent new book, The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland (Oxford, 2021).… Read more...

New Post on Slugger – The Service of Reflection & Hope: An opportunity for the Church Leaders?

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘The Service of Reflection & Hope: An Opportunity for the Church Leaders?’

Image: Detail of the two-light stained glass window W27 in the north wall of the chancel (second from … Read more...

A Review of ‘Evangelical Journeys’ – A Decade On

It has been more than a decade since Claire Mitchell and I published Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, 2011).

I recently stumbled across a review of the book by Brutus Green in … Read more...

Listening on the Twelfth: My Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster

For the day that’s in it, my Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster reflects on listening.

You can listen here, or read the text below.

Listening on the Twelfth

My first summer in Northern Ireland, I lived … Read more...

Religion Media Centre Conversation on Post-Brexit Religious and Political Divide

Earlier this month I took part in a conversation organized by the Religion Media Centre on Northern Ireland’s Post-Brexit Religious and Political Divide.

Moderated by broadcaster William Crawley, the panel included:

Dr Eamon Phoenix – political historian and head of

‘Well worth engaging with’: Familia Review of ‘Considering Grace’

I have just become aware of a review of my book, co-authored with Jamie Yohanis, Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles, in Familia, Ulster Genealogical Review, a publication of the Ulster Historical Foundation.

David Steers’s review begins with the wonderfully … Read more...