Exploring the faith journey and dimension of the Festival.
We talk to Martin Evans about Greenbelt's origins, Rita Nakashima Brock about her book 'Saving Paradise', John Bell, about Iona's longstanding links with the Festival, Jenny Baker about the Greenbelt Communion Service, Ben Edson about alt.worship at the event, and Alastair McIntosh about Greenbelt's identity as a spiritual community.
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Or stream the audio using the player below.
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Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:
00.00 – 01.00 – Intro
01.00 – 04.30 – Martin Evans on the Festival's faith beginnings
04.30 – 07.50 – Rita Nakashima Brock on 'Saving Paradise'
07.50 – 10.50 – John Bell on the Iona's connection with Greenbelt
10.50 – 13.25 – Jenny Baker on the Festival's Communion Service and silence
13.30 – 16.35 – Ben Edson on Greenbelt's alt. worship programme
16.35 – 18.20 – Alastair McIntosh on the Festival's community and spirituality
18.20 – 21.05 – Outro
Resources
Download a free talk from John Bell, recorded at last year's Festival here and once you've listened to that, you can check out more talks by John Bell available here.
Get Rita Nakashima Brock's book in advance of this year's Festvial – Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire.
Check out Alistair McIntosh's books over on Amazon.
Browse through recorded talks by Mike Riddell, or check out his books on Amazon.
Alastair McIntosh's Do Lecture from 2008
Links
Ben Edson blogs at http://benedson.blogs.com/
40days project is at http://forty.myzen.co.uk/
Jenny Baker's network for young women is at http://www.sophianetwork.org.uk/
Click here to download audio of our interview with John Peck, the Grandfather of the Festival's theological vision and worldview (8 MB).
Soundtrack (click to buy in iTunes)
Burial – Ghost Hardware
Burial – Archangel
Lamb – Angelica
Lamb – Gabriel (Si Begg's 5.1 Futures Remix)
Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3 – III. – Lento – Cantabile-Semplice
John Tavener – Pratirupa
Calamateur – Jesus
Howe Gelb – Paradise Here Abouts
Wild Goose Collective – Come, bring your burdens to God (Woza Nomthwalo Wakho) / S. Africa
Drums and song from GB communion 2006 – unknown composer
Credits
• Narrated by Phil Smith and Grace Wroe
• Narration recorded by Ben Cohen
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Field Recording – Paul Northup
