Building a Church Without Walls
Rev Dr Ivan Patterson, President of the Irish Council of Churches, recently offered some reflections for the ‘Care4Clergy’ group based on research published in my report on churches during the pandemic, ‘People Still Need Us.’
Patterson’s reflections were posted on … Read more...
I have a new article in Reality magazine, ‘Choice and Uncertainty: Why Secularisation is Good for the Churches.’
Reality is published by Redemptorist Communications Ireland. You can purchase a copy here.
I have reproduced the first few paragraphs of the … Read more...
I was interviewed about my research on churches during the pandemic on Clare FM’s Beyond Belief programme, which was presented by Stephen Fletcher and aired last night.
We cover a number of topics featured in my reports on my research, … Read more...
Researchers at Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education, Dublin City University and York St John University in the UK are conducting a second survey on religious practice during the pandemic: ‘Covid-19 and Church-21’.
Ordained clergy and laity from all denominations … Read more...
I was interviewed about my research on religion during the Covid-19 pandemic on RTE Radio 1’s ‘The Leap of Faith’ programme, Friday 5 February. It draws primarily on my latest research report, Something Other than a Building: Churches during … Read more...
It outlines the results of my latest research on churches in Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.… Read more...
Recognizing that the heart of Considering Grace is the stories it contains, the … Read more...
I have a new article on RTÉ Brainstorm on ‘How Irish churches are celebrating Christmas during a Pandemic.’
Click here to read the full story.
Image: Clonard Monastery in Belfast, December 2020. Sourced on Clonard’s Twitter feed.… Read more...
My article on ‘Clerical modernisers and the media in Ireland: the journalism of Fr Gerry Reynolds’, has been published in a special issue of the academic journal Contemporary British History on ‘Christian modernities in Britain and Ireland in the … Read more...
I’ve reviewed Maureen K Day’s Catholic Activism Today: Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice, on the Catholic Books Review website.
It’s a worthwhile study of Catholic activism in the United States, deftly situated within historical and sociological … Read more...
I’ve contributed an article, ‘Faith Leaders’ Response to the Pandemic’, in the latest issue of Search: A Church of Ireland Journal (Autumn 2020).
The article outlines the key findings from a survey I conducted in May, in partnership with the … Read more...
