Joel Edwards - GB08
I arrived on site and felt that I’d stepped into an open space, where I was free to speak unapologetically from an evangelical perspective into a truly eclectic environment, where thinking Christians feel at liberty to interrogate their faith.
Maya Anne Evans - GB08
I would like to thank you and all the others involved in making the festival happen which, as well as facilitating fun, also allows important issues to be addressed and openly discussed.
Shlomo - GB08
It was such a pleasure to play some quite subtle and challenging material on a festival main stage, and to feel like the crowd really got it.
Frank Schaeffer - GB08
I've found the last three days here the most healing and restoring experience I've had in the last 20 years. The scale and the love and the tolerance here has changed my ideas … I have to go back to square one and think about what religion and society a
Phillip Yancey - GB08
I've been to Greenbelt 4 or 5 times, and this one was my best experience of them all! You're getting quite organised!
Jonathan Kuttab - GB08
It is wonderful to see so many people energized and blessed with both a Christian commitment and a social conscience and concern for the poor, the marginalised, the sick, the environment, for justice, for Christian ethics, and for spirituality.
Jim Wallis
'A lot of British young people don't do church and Greenbelt is unique in what it offers.'
Rob Bell - GB09
‘This whole event is grounded in the belief that it’s God’s world, and wherever you find truth and beauty you can embrace it. There is a certain fearlessness here that is absolutely compelling.'
Bill Drummond
The focus of the festival is not primarily on standing in a field and gawping at some distant figure living out their fantasy...
Kurt Wagner
This is what a wary Kurt had to say in interview after Lambchop's first visit to Greenbelt.
Michael Franti
'I sing my songs not to change to people's minds but to open them and Greenbelt is a mind-opening event...'
Andrew Motion
'It feels very comfortable to me to read my poems in a context such as this. Partly because [there] is an attention to listening...'
Daniel Bedingfield
'This festival is not an exclusive event. This is an incredibly inclusive festival, full of phenomenal examples of people of faith.'
Mark Yaconelli
On his first visit to his Father's favourite Festival, Mark said: "Greenbelt is a rare jewel, a sign of the kingdom to come ..."
Sister Frances Dominica
The diminutive Children's Hospice pioneer said: "Thanks very much for all that you did to make me feel so welcome."
Maria McKee
Here's an extract of Maria's notebook as she publishes it on her website, just before she came to Greenbelt 2006.
Tracy Emin
In The Independent on 15 April 2005: 'Greenbelt ... wants to screen my film, Top Spot. This pleases me a lot...'
John Gladwin
'Greenbelt represents something really, really important in our Christian inheritance in this society.'
Anita Roddick bigs up Greenbelt
'What's wonderful about being my age is having to face your prejudices.
Archbishop Rowan Williams
'Greenbelt is part of my mental furniture.'
What the Guardian said
Tony Naylor, writing in The Guardian on Saturday August 21, 2004, billed Greenbelt like this:
Ched Myers
You should feel deeply proud of setting up that temporary village of celebration, learning and art each year!
Mohammad Imran
Here was a Christian festival where I was made to feel welcome and included.
