Talks at Greenbelt 2005: Tree Of Life
Alastair McIntosh
Alastair McIntosh grew up on the Isle of Lewis and is now a fellow of Scotland's Centre for Human Ecology. He is author of Soil and Soul: People...
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...
Angel Luis Rivera-Agosto
Angel Luis Rivera-Agosto is a lawyer and pastors a church in Puerto Rico and is part of the mission personnel of the Common Board of Global...
Anna Minton
Anna Minton is a writer and journalist, contributing regularly to The Guardian. Her current project looks at the privatisation of the public...
Betty Spackman
Betty Spackman is a multi-media installation artist and painter from Canada working with ideas of memory and archive through story and cultural...
Bev Thomas
Bev Thomas is a freelance consultant and lecturer. For the last 20 years she has worked as a trainer and speaker on social justice and 'race'...
Bill Drummond
In 1987, Bill Drummond's Justified Ancients of Mumu project caused a great deal of outrage and legal wrangling due to the inclusion of snippets...
Bob & Annette Holman
Bob & Annette Holman work with Frontier Youth Trust exploring issues relating to the kingdom and social justice. Together they offer a serious...
Carolyn Hayman
Throughout a varied career in government, business and the not for profit sector, Carolyn Hayman’s focus has been on startups and innovation,...
Christina Baxter
Christina Baxter is Principal of St John’s Theological College, Nottingham where she also teaches systematic and historical theology. She...
Ciaron O’Reilly
Ciaron O’Reilly is part of radical pacifist Catholic Worker Movement and active in the Ploughshares organisation, which deactivates military...
Clive Stafford-Smith
Clive Stafford Smith has worked on behalf of defendants facing the death penalty in the southern United States for the last 25 years. He is...
Dave Tomlinson
Dave Tomlinson is a writer, internationally traveled speaker and vicar of St Luke's church in North London. He is married to Pat and has 3 children...
David F. Ford
David F. Ford is Irish and was educated in Trinity College Dublin, Cambridge, Yale and Tubingen universities. He is now Regius Professor of...
David Nwokedi
David Nwokedi was born in Nigeria and raised in Newhaven and Brighton. He worked in social services in London for ten years before moving...
David Thomson
David Thomson is Archdeacon of Carlisle, looking after churches and ministers in a thousand square miles of the most beautiful countryside in...
David Wilkinson
David Wilkinson is Wesley Research Lecturer in Theology and Science at the University of Durham. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical...
Elizabeth Bayliss
Elizabeth Bayliss is director of Social Action for Health, a community health development charity. She has lived and worked in inner London...
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an architect based in Tel Aviv and London. He has conducted research on behalf of the human rights organization B'tselem on...
Fraser Dyer
Fraser Dyer has been a management consultant and trainer since 1991, coaching clients on work and management issues. ...
James Jones
James Jones became Bishop of Liverpool in 1998. Over the last ten years he has been deeply involved in Urban Regeneration; he chairs the...
Jane Bartlett
Jane Bartlett is a journalist writing widely in the national press about parenting, health and wellbeing. Having worked for several years...
Jeff Woodke
Jeff Woodke is director of Jemed (the French YWAM) in Niger and leads a project supported by Tearfund. His team work with the Tuareg, building...
Jenny McIntosh
Jenny McIntosh’s passion and job is facilitating Spirited Exchanges, the umbrella name for a variety of initiatives supporting people that...
Jesse Moore
Jesse Moore is a pastor in South Dakota, leading alcoholics, survivors of abuse, ex-convicts, and those who feel they didn’t fit in with a...
John Bell
John Bell was a van boy and municipal grass-cutter until he developed allergies to heavy traffic and clover. Since then he has been involved...
Jonathan Bartley
Jonathan is director and founder of Ekklesia, which works to promote radical theological ideas in public life. He is often heard on TV and Radio,...
Jonathan Glennie
Jonathan Glennie is a policy officer working at Christian Aid. He has worked with street and working children. But tinkering around the edges...
Juan Angel Gutiérrez
Juan Angel Gutiérrez is Latin American coordinator for a Culture of Peace and the Center for Conflict Transformation. He has worked as...
Judy Reith
Judy Reith runs Parenting People, which offers courses and workshops aimed at improving family dynamics. She has been working in parenting education...
Karen Armstrong
Having failed to find God in a convent, Karen Armstrong fled to study literature at Oxford. She has been finding God in unusual places and writing...
Keiko Holmes
Keiko Holmes works for Agape — a reconciliation ministry described as "unique" by Sir David Wright, the British Ambassador to Japan. Awarded...
Laurence Freeman
Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine monk and teaches meditation in the Christian tradition around the world. Close to his heart is the integration...
Leo Hickman
Leo Hickman is journalist, editor and consumer expert at the Guardian. He is the author of ‘How to Buy’ and the forthcoming ‘A Life Stripped...
Maggie Lunan
Maggie Lunan is an education secretary working for Christian Aid. She has lived in a big city, rural Scotland and the Philippines, but it was...
Mark Nunn & Winnie Sseruma
Mark Nunn works at Christian Aid’s HIV and AIDS unit. He is co-author of ‘God’s Children are Dying of Aids: Interfaith Dialogue and HIV’...
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. As he is...
Matthew Bishop
Matthew Bishop is American Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief for The Economist. Philanthrocapitalism, his new book (with Michael...
Micheal O'Siadhail
Intense, engaging and accessible, poet Micheal O’Siadhail returns to Greenbelt with his latest collection, Globe (Bloodaxe, 2007), an exploration...
Mike Elliott
Mike Elliott has worked as a part-time prison chaplain and church-based youth worker, but is now an RAF chaplain serving at home and overseas....
Naim Ateek
Naim Ateek is the director of Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. A Palestinian Christian, he became a refugee in 1948...
Nick Thorpe
Nick Thorpe is an award-winning writer and journalist. A contributor to the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Scotsman and...
Noel Moules
Noel Moules is the founder and director of the ‘Workshop: Applied Christian Studies’ learning programme and lives in Sheffield. Born in India...
Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell is a novelist and a television and comics writer. He wrote the episode ‘Father's Day’ for the revival of Doctor Who, and...
Paul Northup
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Paul Robinson
One out of one will die. It's the ultimate statistic. But in the 21st century where will the dead dwell? Manchester-based architect Paul Robinson...
Paul Vallely
Paul Vallely is Associate Editor of The Independent where he writes on social, ethical and religious issues. He was commended as ‘International...
Pete Rollins
One-time Christian, evangelist and full-time charismatic, Peter is now a Christ-following provocateur, revelation-inspiring lecturer, and founding...
Pete Stephens
Pete Stephens is responsible for trade negotiations with developing countries at the Department of Trade and Industry. He joined the DTI four...
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...
Peter Challen
Peter Challen is a Canon Emeritus of Southwark Cathedral, chairman of the Christian Council for Monetary Justice and co-founder of the Forum...
Peter Graystone
Peter Graystone works for Church Army, where his job is to create new Christian communities attractive to those who have never been to church,...
Pip Wilson Level Fivers
Level Fivers are a group of beautiful humans, who have been meeting since 1980, two or three times a year for 25 YEARS! With Pip Wilson –...
Prabhu Guptara
Prabhu Guptara is a fellow of the Institute of Directors, of the Institute of Personnel and Development, of the Royal Commonwealth Society and...
Richard Giles
Richard Giles is Dean of Philadelphia Cathedral in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, USA, where he oversaw the radical renovation of the cathedral...
Richard Rohr
Fr Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community - the Center for...
Romy Tiongco
Romy Tiongco was a Christian Aid partner in the Philippines from 1979 to 1989. After teaching at New College, University of Edinburgh, he rejoined...
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins presents the weekly award-winning BBC Radio Wales programme All Things Considered, for which he has interviewed many leading religious...
Roy Searle
Roy Searle is one of the leaders of the Northumbria Community, is currently President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and the Director...
Simon Jones
Simon Jones is a writer and thinker and Editor of Third Way. ...
Sister Frances Dominica
Born in Scotland in 1942, Sister Frances Dominica trained as a nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and at the Middlesex...
Sister Pamela Hussey
Sister Pamela Hussey is one of the Catholic Institute for International Relations ‘faith reflection writers’. She has worked in Salvadorean...
Steve Stockman
Steve Stockman is a Chaplain at Queens University Belfast, regular contributor to BBC Radio Ulster and author of Walk On;The Spiritual Journey...
Theo Hobson
Theo Hobson is a theologian and journalist. His books have been variously tomes and polemics, and he has written for the Guardian, the Times,...
Tim Nafziger
Tim Nafziger grew up in the area made quasi-famous by the movie Witness. He's not Amish, but he is Mennonite, which is similar but without...
Tom Hewitt
Tom Hewitt first visited South Africa in 1990 on an ant-apartheid trip with the Amos Trust. He was introduced to street children in Maputo during...