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This webinar, which took place on 31 March 2022, was the latest in a series marking fifty years of the Irish School of Ecumenics.
Speakers included Dr Nicola Brady, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI), together with Prof Siobhán Garrigan, Rev Canon Tim Kinahan, Rev Cheryl Meban, and Fr Tom Layden SJ.
In 1988, this question – Christianity discredited or pilgrim’s progress? – was posed by the title of a book written by ISE’s second Director, Robin Boyd. ISE says it is a question that the churches continue to face, and, indeed, by their entrenched habits of division, it is a question that they themselves continue to pose to many on the island of Ireland and beyond.
This webinar addressed: how might the Irish churches deal more creatively with the complex legacy of their manifest failures in a pilgrimage – here, now – of justice and peace? Is it possible to hold together a renewed understanding of the missio Dei, a repentant ecclesiology and a vision of inter-church reconciliation and just peace? And is it conceivable that the churches could find ways in which to undertake this ecumenical and ecclesiological task together, forging new pathways of prayerful thought and action at all levels of their organisation and self-understanding? What would Ireland, its churches, and Christianity as a whole, look like then?
A recording of this webinar is available above and on the ISE website, where you can also find others celebrating ISE at 50.
