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REVEREND DR. JOHNSTON McMASTER
Our vision of reconciliation is often too restricted and narrow. Living as we do in a shrinking world, a network of global villages, and at the same time in an ever-expanding universe, we are one planet in a galaxy among millions of galaxies, our vision of reconciliation needs to seriously stretch its horizons. We are exploring cosmic dimensions, including a larger than cosmic perspective on God. Reading the Bible in this context provides us with imaginative and mind-stretching possibilities.
Reverend. Dr. Johnston McMaster was born and brought up in Portavogie, Northern Ireland. He served as a Methodist Church in Ireland minister in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland before working for the Youth Department of the Methodist Church and for Youth LInk Northern Ireland, the inter-church youth agency. He did his Doctor of Ministry at the Garrett-Evangelical Seminary in the USA. He is one of the brightest and challening ecumenists of our time.
He is now Lecturer and Programme Co-ordinator of Education for Reconciliation Programme in Northern Ireland, a programme of the Irish School of Ecumenics
His teaching areas are Reconciliation Studies, Education for Reconciliation Programmes, Ecumenism and Northern Ireland, The Role of Religion in the Northern Ireland Conflict and Celtic Spirituality.
Johnston is a prolific writer and has authored many books on areas as diverse as Celtic Spirituality and Contemporary Social Ethics, Theological Resources for Change, Creating Communities of Integrity, Churches Working Together - A Practical Resource, Churches on the Edge: Responding Creatively to a Changing Time, Drinking From Our Own Wells: Celtic Spirituality for the 21st Century, Brokenness, Forgiveness, Healing & Peace in Ireland: What Should the Churches Do?, Kairos: A Time for Peace: A Training Manual Empowering Young Adults to Shape the Future, The Churches in Cross-Community Work with Young People, and Young People as Guardians of the Sectarian Tradition.
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