Ken Humphrey
Ken Humphrey has worked as a community development worker in a Catholic community since 1989.
Jasmine Devadson
Jasmine Devadson is from a small village in southern India where she teaches Old Testament studies at STETS (Southern Theological Education and Training Scheme) as a partner with the Council for World Mission.
George Pitcher
George Pitcher was formerly industrial editor of The Observer, and voted National Newspaper Journalist of the year in 1991. Since then, he has worked widely as a business and financial journalist and writes a regular business column for Marketing Week.
Charlotte Riaz
Martin Gordon
Judith Gunn
Judith's career has ranged from working for BBC Radio Bristol, to producing, writing and researching programmes for all the major BBC radio networks including a fair stint on Radio One.
Claire Pedrick
Ruth Dearnley
Ruth Dearnley has 13 years’ teaching experience in London, specialising in Religious Education, Creative Arts and worship in a multi-faith context. She works for South Bank University and Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership.
Gustavo Parajon
- The dry bones shall live
- Nicarague since December 23 1973
- They sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals
- Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray (the humiliation of Babylon)
Gustavo Parajon is well known to Greenbelt. He’s been coming – on and off – since 1987. Founding CEPAD (the Council of Churches promoting Relief and Development) after the massive Nicaraguan earthquake in 1972, he has spoken on behalf of the people of Nicaragua all over the world, including inside the White House.
Cole Moreton
Cole Moreton is executive editor of the Independent on Sunday as well as a broadcaster and author who is currently working on his third book. He was recently shortlisted for 'Interviewer of the Year' at the British Press Awards.
Stephan Collishaw
Neil Perot
Kirsti Reeve
Charlie Irvine
Charlie Irvine is a freelance mediator, helping people resolve conflict in families, the workplace, education and business.
Jo Ind
Jo Ind is a journalist for The Birmingham Post and also writes for The Independent and The Church Times, She has made a series of interviews for BBC TV's Heart and Soul and her first book, Fat is a Spiritual Issue, was critically acclaimed. Her latest (on sex and sexuality) is already stirring reactionary (Church) members.
John Bell
- The Loud Language of Need
- Quitting the cussing
- The mother tongues of heaven
- The loud language of need
John Bell was born within smelling distance of Johnny Walker's distillery in Kilmarnock and presently lives within smelling distance of Tenant's Brewery in Glasgow.
Judith Cavanagh
"Faith, love and communication"
"Faith, love and communication"
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"Touching wounds, confronting doubt - the artist as St. Thomas"
"Touching wounds, confronting doubt - the artist as St. Thomas"
Asylum - an overstated case or a deepening crisis?
Asylum - an overstated case or a deepening crisis?
The 'F' word again
The 'F' word again
So what's the deal with the Trade Justice campaign
So what's the deal with the Trade Justice campaign
Greenbelt Communion Service
Martin Wroe
Martin Wroe makes a living as a writer, is a Trustee of Greenbelt and one of the main movers behind the Generous online community.
Martin Drewry
Martin Drewry is a local Methodist preacher and a mad Leeds Utd fan! He is the Head of Campaigns at Christian Aid where he spearheaded the supermarket campaign as well as overseeing Christian Aid’s key role in the Jubilee 2000 movement.
Sarah Rose
Dave Shepherd
Justin Macmullan
Justin Macmullan is the Campaign Policy Officer at Christian Aid. After six years spent in the Campaigns Team, he is grateful for being allowed out for a weekend.
Judy Reith
Judy Reith runs Parenting People, which offers courses and workshops aimed at improving family dynamics. She has been working in parenting education and as a life and parent coach for almost ten years. She is a regular guest on BBC Radio and TV and writes for regularly on parenting issues.
Peter Tatchell
Born in Australia in 1952, Peter is best known as a controversial campaigner on issues of sexual freedom and human rights.
Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor found his place as the youngest contender and the only first novelist on the 2002 Booker Prize longlist for his novel If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things It has since won a 2003 Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted in the Eurasia Region of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the 2004 British Book Awards.
Duncan Morrow
Duncan Morrow is Chief Executive of the N.I. Community Relations Council, instrumental in drawing-up the ‘Shared Future’ document, as part of the consolidation of the Peace Process.
Kathy Galloway
Kathy Galloway lives in Glasgow and is the leader of the Iona Community and. She is a practical theologian, campaigner and author of theology, liturgy and poetry. She is patron of the Student Christian Movement and the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre.
Caesar Molebatsi
Mike Yaconelli
- Impersonating ourselves: refusing to fake it as a Christian
- Messy Spirituality II (the mess continues)
- Five Pagan values Christians love: when evil looks good
Mike Yaconelli headed up Youth Specialities, an organisation that trains and provides resources for youth workers. He was a lay pastor of a small church for people who don't like church, and a hugely popular speaker around the world – especially at Greenbelt!
Richard Rohr
Fr Richard Rohr lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He divides his time between local work and International preaching and is a regular contributing editor/writer for Sojourners magazine. He is currently writing a book on male initiation.
Ian Stillman
Ian Stillman is deaf. After more than 25 years pioneering work with the adult deaf in South India, he was wrongfully arrested in 2000 for drug possession and sentenced to ten years in prison. Released in December 2002, after a worldwide campaign to free him, he is now living in the UK but hopes to return to India one day.
Zoughbi Zoughbi
Zoughbi Zoughbi is a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem committed to combining traditional Arab methods of negotiation with modern peacemaking techniques. He is at the forefront of the grassroots Palestinian movement seeking to resolve the conflicts caused by occupation through non-violent means.
Dave Tomlinson
Dave Tomlinson is vicar of St Luke’s in North London, author of The Post-Evangelical, and adviser to the Bishop of London on Environmental Issues. He and his wife Pat have three grown-up children, two grand-daughters, and a gorgeous dog called Woody.
You're my saviour, man - the matrix unpacked
"You're my saviour, man - the Matrix unpacked"
Pete Ward
Pete Ward is a lecturer at Kings College London, he is married to Tess and has two children. His previous books include Growing Up Evangelical and Mass Culture.
Jetze van der Meulen
New Improved Christianity
New improved Christianity
Emerging Church Part 2: Church Growth - Forming and farming new pearls
Emerging Church Part 2: Church Growth - Forming and farming new pearls
Giles Fraser
Giles Fraser is the Vicar of Putney and lecturer in Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford.
Peter Graystone
Peter Graystone works in the Churches’ team at Christian Aid, helping people make a connection between their faith and what is happening in the developing world.
Yemi Adedeji
Sue Plater
Abuse, the churchers, and a new dawn for survivors
"Abuse, the churches, and a new dawn for survivors"
Andrew Bradstock
is the URC's Secretary for Church and Society and seeks to make the Church's voice heard on national and international issues. He has lectured in political theology and church history and written widely on radical Christianity.
Graham Cray
Graham Cray is the Bishop of Maidstone, a former Chair of Greenbelt and the Chair of Soul Survivor. He led the team which wrote Mission-Shaped Church and gave the London Lectures on Contemporary Christianity on the theme of citizenship. He is the only bishop with 50 days of rock music on his Mac.
Our judges, the poor
"Our judges, the poor"
Church in the naughties
Church in the naughties
City Vision
City vision
Attack of the Clones
Attack of the Clones
The shape we're in
The shape we're in
Manna at the multiplex
Manna at the multiplex
Lavinia Byrne
teaches communications in the Cambridge Theological Federation. A regular broadcaster on BBC’s Radio 4 and World Service, she has written books on Christian spirituality and the place of women in the Church.
Spiritual society, secular church?
"Spiritual society, secular church?"
Nora Carmi
is a Palestinian Christian social activist and writer from Sabeel Liberation Theology Centre.
Truth, fiction, secrets and lies
"Truth, fiction, secrets and lies"
Doug Gay
- Alternative Worship - grit in the Church's shell
- Those pearly gates - re-discovering the politics of going
Doug Gay is a long term Greenbelter who teaches Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow. His current research focuses on 'emerging church' issues and political theology, especially theology and nationalism.
Brian McLaren
Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among
innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists.
Tim Moulds
Tim Moulds is an Associate Director of Christian Aid. He was an investment banker with 3i plc for 18 years before that. And, with his financial and commercial background, he has been actively involved in campaigning work on international debt.
James Stewart
Glen Tarman
Elias Chacour
The Rev Dr Elias Chacour is affectionately known as ‘Abuna’ and is President of Mar Elias Educational Institutions in Ibillin, Galilee, Israel. A Melkite Priest, he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times and this year he talks about the Beatitudes.
Daleep Mukarji
Daleep Mukarji is the Director of Christian Aid. Previously, he was Executive Secretary for Health, Community and Justice at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, and before that he worked as a medical doctor and public health campaigner in India.
Henry Olonga
Ben Ojwang
Christina Rees
Christina Rees is a writer, broadcaster, executive coach and public speaker. She is one of Radio 4’s Thinkers for the Day, a member of the General Synod and Chair of National WATCH (Women and the Church).Leslie Griffiths
Leslie Griffiths was educated at Llanelli Grammar School and, as a Methodist minister, spent much of the 1970s in Haiti. He now broadcasts regularly on ‘Thought for the Day’ and The Daily Service and writes for The Methodist Recorder and The Tablet.
Bruce Harris
Bruce Harris is an internationally respected children’s rights advocate and Executive Director of Casa Alianza, serving the homeless youngsters abandoned to a life of survival on the streets in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexico
Nigel Varndell
Nigel Varndell has been at Christian Aid for over ten years, working in fundraising, advocacy and Church relations before ending up as the Inter-faith manager.
Naima Bouteldja
Naima Bouteldja (31), France, is a freelance journalist and activist in Britain. She has an MA in International Economics and Finances from Toulouse University and did her dissertation on the structural adjustment programmes imposed on Ghana and the Ivory Coast by the IMF and the World Bank.
Esther Baker
Esther Baker is the Artistic Director of Synergy Theatre Project and has directed many plays in prisons and theatres. Recent work includes The Long Road (Soho Theatre), Elmina’s Kitchen (HMP Brixton), On The Waterfront (Wimbledon Studio Theatre). Last year she made her first short film The Rains of Fear which was screened at LA and Krakow Film Festivals.
Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth and co-chair of the Green Party. Now Programme Director of Forum for the Future, a leading writer and broadcaster, he received a CBE in 2000 for services to environmental protection, and is also Chair of the Government’s Sustainable Development Commission.
David Pickering
David Pickering studied Environmental Science prior to training for the ministry. Since 1999 he has developed and co-ordinated ‘Eco-Congregation’, a project to encourage and enable churches to integrate an environmental focus into their life and mission.
Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick OBE founded The Body Shop in 1976. With a strong sense of moral outrage, first awakened when reading about the Holocaust aged 10, she believes that businesses have the power to do good. And she also believes that the older you get, the more radical you become!
Nick Buxton
Dave Andrews
Has lived and worked with marginalised groups in Asia and Australia for more than thirty years with his wife and Ange and their family. He is author of many books and articles, including Not Religion, But Love and Building A Better World.
