Writer and Greenbelt trustee Martin Wroe spoke on his new book, The Gospel According To Everyone, at Greenbelt 2011. Featuring portraits by Meg Wroe, the book contains "twelve short stories of faith and doubt, of love and longing by people you may recognise from a church you've never been to". Here's Martin, with an introduction [...]

Read the entire post

We're sure you paid a visit at Greenbelt to the excellent G-Books tent, run by our friends at Church House Bookshop. And even as the festival dims in the memory, there's still time to get great books – including those by Greenbelt speakers and artists – at a generous 10% discount… Simply head over to [...]

Read the entire post

If you're preparing for Greenbelt 2011, and would like to read up on a few of the speakers, check out the Church House Bookshop selection for Greenbelt, featuring an array of books from GB11 speakers at great reduced prices. Titles include: Phyllis Tickle – Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why Was: £10.99  Offer price: £9.89 [...]

Read the entire post

Pip Wilson is a youth worker, Greenbelt speaker and trustee. He has a new book out – Pip Wisdom – which is a collection of "reflections, stories, observations, ideas, graphic illustrations and exercises for the soul." According to Pip, the reflections strive "always to be as open and as honest/vulnerable as possible". Pip says: What I [...]

Read the entire post

The line-up for this year's London Literature Festival at the South Bank Centre has been announced, and there are some corking events on to tempt the literary from their book-filled burrow. Top of any list for bonkers pop-culture theorising, Slavoj Zizek is appearing to discuss the end of capitalism; the perpetually-controversial Bret Easton Ellis discusses [...]

Read the entire post

When asked to write ten resolutions for a greener New Year, GB09 speaker Tamsin Omond instead came up with twelve. Twelve examples of "things that are filling the space between more radical activism and the real world – that are pulling the mainstream into a sustainable vision". There are some great tips in there for [...]

Read the entire post

I'm a big fan of bookclub meetings with friendly banter, good books and being a meeting of minds. The bookclub meetings held at the Festival last year were an absolute treat. Following the comedic revelation that I was not Carol Ann Duffy there were some wonderful insightful comments about her poetry. Sally Nicholls also gave [...]

Read the entire post

If you enjoyed Frank Schaeffer's talks at GB08, you might be interested to know that Frank has a new book out:  Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism) "Former evangelical Christian political agitator Schaeffer has been born yet again. This time, he has been reborn into what he calls the [...]

Read the entire post

Jon Bounds spoke at the Festival this year. One his excellent talks was about his 11-11-11 project. He's written about the project he's conducting this year for the blog. – I there’s one thing I like in the Old Testament is it’s grasp of the symbolic power of encircling a town. When Joshua brings down [...]

Read the entire post

by Ben Whitehouse I asked Jon Bounds to "write a post for the blog" and wasn't too sure what I'd get back. As usual I wasn't disappointed, Jon has delivered, in his own unique, way, something wonderful about his talks for the festival. Make sure you catch them, they're not to be missed! The ways [...]

Read the entire post