Building a Church Without Walls
Julia Newton, a graduate of Queen’s MA in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, has won the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religion’s 2021 Sídh (Postgraduate) Essay Prize.
Julia’s essay, which addressed the question,‘Whose Chosen Nation: An Analysis … Read more...
In July 1885, former American president and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant was dying – and writing his memoirs. My Thought for the Day reflects on the final days of his life.
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My Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster marks International Women’s Day with the story of a pioneering politician from my home state, Maine: Margaret Chase Smith.
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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 have participated in two recent discussions on Covid-19 on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence.
Sunday 5 April the topic was ‘Learning survival today from the lessons of the past’. Other discussants were consultant physician and clinical lecturer Michael Trimble, … Read more...
Following the death of American evangelist Billy Graham last week, I took part in a conversation about his life and legacy on Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. You can listen to it here as the first item on the BBC’s Everyday … Read more...
Acclaimed American historian of religion Mark Noll is visiting Belfast, and there are several opportunities to hear him speak over the next few days.
In 2005, Mark Noll was named as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America … Read more...
The speakers include Terry Eagleton, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Hans Joas, William … Read more...
Crawford Gribben, Professor of History at Queen’s University Belfast, has written a compelling review of recent scholarship on American evangelicalism for The American Interest. Surveying the most important research of the last several years, Gribben shows how there has been … Read more...
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog: Senator George Mitchell Recommends Integrated Education at Queen’s Conflict Transformation Spring Festival.… Read more...
I recently learned that there were a couple spare copies of my 2008 book, Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland (Palgrave 2008), resting idle at the Irish School of Ecumenics at the Trinity College campus in Dublin, left over from … Read more...
