Revive
Leeds-based Revive are also hosting this year’s Greenbelt Communion on Sunday morning. They're also hosting a worship service called Self-Service in New Forms 1.
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 from Margaret Thatcher's speeches, an Abba single and various BBC broadcasts. In 1992, his band the KLF exited the music business by machine-gunning the Brits audience with blanks. Two years later he burned one million pounds of the money he had made for an art project. He now makes soup across the UK and encourages people to prepare to die by organising their own funerals.
Richard Rohr
- The Cross as the "Axis of the World"
- Tree of Life: No leaves, no fruit, just trunk
- Tree of Life 2: a game of two halves
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.
Jenny McIntosh
Jenny McIntosh’s passion and job is facilitating Spirited Exchanges, the umbrella name for a variety of initiatives supporting people that struggle with issues of faith and/or church.
John Bell
- God's funny bone
- Trees Clapping. Mountains Skipping
- The subversive potential of Christian song
- 9/11 & 7/7 - Some Gospel Perspectives
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.
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 currently focusing his work on achieving due process for the detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay.
Maggi Dawn
Maggi Dawn is Chaplain and Fellow of Robinson College in the University of Cambridge. A long-time Greenbelter, she is also an occasional broadcaster for the BBC, and writes for a number of publications, including the Church Times
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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 versus Corporate Power, described by Bishop James Jones as "life-changing", by George Monbiot as "world-changing", and by Thom Yorke of Radiohead as "truly mental."
Pete Rollins
One-time Christian, evangelist and full-time charismatic, Peter is now a Christ-following provocateur, revelation-inspiring lecturer, and founding member of Belfast's Ikon.
Micheal O\'Siadhail
Intense, engaging and accessible, poet Micheal O’Siadhail returns to Greenbelt with his latest collection, Globe (Bloodaxe, 2007), an exploration of how a world is shaped. Sarah Crown, writing in The Guardian, describes the book as a ‘timely and disquieting dissection of the planet’s parlous state.’
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 objects.
Jeff Woodke
Jeff Woodke is director of Jemed (the French YWAM) in Niger and leads a project supported by Tearfund.
Juan Angel Gutiérrez
Juan Angel Gutiérrez is Latin American coordinator for a Culture of Peace and the Center for Conflict Transformation.
Prabhu Guptara
- What stops Jesus from Revolutionising Economics, Politics and Society
- Why Some Parts of the World Stay Poor - and What To Do about it
Prabhu Guptara is a fellow of the Institute of Directors, of the Institute of Personnel and Development, of the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Commerce and Manufacturers.
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 and 3 grandchildren.
Naim Ateek
- Son of David or Suffering Servant? Where Christians Went Wrong
- Daniel or Judah Maccabeas? Did we follow the wrong person?
- Whose Jerusalem?
- Son of David or Suffering Servant?
Naim Ateek is the director of Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem.
Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell is a novelist and a television and comics writer.
Trees Clapping. Mountains Skipping
An adventure into biblical ecology and its importance for the 21st Century.
David F. Ford
- Love Life/Cry Wisdom: The Poet and the theologian 1
- Love Life/ Cry Wisdom: The Poet and the Theologian 2
David F. Ford is Irish and was educated in Trinity College Dublin, Cambridge, Yale and Tubingen universities. He is now Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme.
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.
Pete Stephens
Pete Stephens is responsible for trade negotiations with developing countries at the Department of Trade and Industry.
Ciaron O’Reilly
Ciaron O’Reilly is part of radical pacifist Catholic Worker Movement and active in the Ploughshares organisation, which deactivates military equipment.
David Nwokedi
David Nwokedi was born in Nigeria and raised in Newhaven and Brighton.
Laurence Freeman
Laurence Freeman is a monk of the Monastery of Christ the King in the Olivetan Benedictine Congregation.
Richard Giles
Richard Giles is Dean of Philadelphia Cathedral in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, USA, where he oversaw the radical renovation of the cathedral to become a place of stunning worship, adventurous faith, and unconditional hospitality.
Jane Bartlett
Jane Bartlett is a journalist writing widely in the national press about parenting, health and wellbeing.
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins presents the weekly award-winning BBC Radio Wales programme All Things Considered, for which he has interviewed many leading religious and political figures, and reported from Brazil, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Hong Kong, South Africa, Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Anna Minton
Anna Minton is a writer and journalist, contributing regularly to The Guardian. Her current project looks at the privatisation of the public realm and is the third in a series of reports on polarisation in post-industrial societies.
Gary McIlwaine
Gary McIlwaine is a typographer and graphic designer.
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.
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 of Renovare - working closely with its founder Richard Foster. He is passionate about spirituality, soul-care, building community, mentoring, and new monasticism.
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, most recently as co-founder with Scilla Elworthy of Peace Direct, which supports and promotes local peacebuilding. Her driving passion is always to showcase grassroots talent to those with power.
Nick Thorpe
Nick Thorpe is an award-winning writer and journalist. A contributor to the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Scotsman and BBC Radio 4 among others, he has covered stories ranging from Russian presidential elections to the coca wars of Bolivia, for which he was shortlisted for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
Fraser Dyer
Fraser Dyer has been a management consultant and trainer since 1991, coaching clients on work and management issues.
Christina Baxter
Christina Baxter is Principal of St John’s Theological College, Nottingham where she also teaches systematic and historical theology.
Elizabeth Bayliss
Elizabeth Bayliss is director of Social Action for Health, a community health development charity. She has lived and worked in inner London all her working life, including among Soho's homeless women, where she began to learn about social policy in practice and went on to set up a housing association for single homeless people.
Norman Stone
Norman Stone began his professional career in television as a producer/director for the BBC.
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’ and ‘Still No Excuses: Orphans and Vulnerable Children and HIV /AIDS’. Winnie Sseruma is an HIV researcher and activist, and Chair of the African HIV Policy Network. Born in the UK, she grew up in Uganda and studied in the US. Winnie has been living with HIV since November 1988.
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 Christian Aid in 1997 and was until recently a member of the area staff based in the north west of England.
How to be heroic
Talks 1 - Rise Sunday
What does heroism mean now, when the VE Day generation is dying off, the playground icons wear capes or football boots, our wars look like video games and there are bombs on the trains? A search for a new kind of heroism we can all live up to.
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.
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 of U2 which is now translated into seven languages!
The value of kitsch
Talks 1 - Rise Saturday
What are the material issues that affect the understanding of art and faith in popular culture? What is the relationship between the act of worship and the act of art making?
Rediscover bedtime prayer with your children
Talks 1 - Rise Saturday
This session explores the joy of teaching children prayer at home, and suggests practical ways in which we can make the experience meaningful.
The northern Irish Jesus: warrior or wimp?
Talks 1 - Rise Sunday
Images of Jesus often suggest an over-feminised weakling or the twin brother of Arnold Schwarzenegger. A look at how peacebuilding in northern Ireland reveals that Jesus is neither.
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, the Tablet and the Spectator.
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 – a youth worker, gamester, author and creator of the ‘Rolling Magazine’ at Greenbelt back in the 80s.
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.
Keiko Holmes
Keiko Holmes works for Agape — a reconciliation ministry described as "unique" by Sir David Wright, the British Ambassador to Japan. Awarded an honorary OBE by the Queen in 1998, Keiko has been working tirelessly to help heal the wounds of the war with the Japanese.
Paul Robinson
One out of one will die. It's the ultimate statistic. But in the 21st century where will the dead dwell?
Matthew Bishop
Matthew Bishop is American Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief for The Economist.
Paul Vallely
Paul Vallely is Associate Editor of The Independent where he writes on social, ethical and religious issues. He was commended as ‘International Reporter of the Year’ for his coverage of the 84/5 famine in Ethiopia and subsequently co-wrote Bob Geldof’s autobiography, Is That It? He was also chairman of the fair trade organisation Traidcraft.
Sceptic's Creed
Cabaret Monday
What do you do when church make you angry, faith seems like a curse but you just can't let go of the idea that God might be out there somewhere?
Politicians Question Time
Talks 1 - Rise Saturday
Ever watched 'Question Time' on TV and wanted to ask the panellists a question or respond to something they said? Now's your chance to quiz some Christian politicians on the issues of the day as Greenbelt hosts its own Question Time. A cross party panel of MPs including David Drew and Steven Webb. Chaired by Andrew Bradstock of the Christian Socialist Movement
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 wonderfully about them ever since. She currently teaches Christianity to Rabbis, and is a renowned expert on Islam.
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, including BBC Radio 4’s ‘Moral Maze’.
Noel Moules
Noel Moules is the founder and director of the ‘Workshop: Applied Christian Studies’ learning programme and lives in Sheffield. Born in India of missionary parents, his passion is exploring spirituality and the gospel in terms of the wholeness of shalom with its call to peace, justice and the integrity of all creation.
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 Hospital London. In 1966 she joined the Society of All Saints, an Anglican Religious Community, becoming Mother Superior from 1977 to 1989.
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 normal church. Jesse has gone full circle from liberal to conservative and has found that the Kingdom of God encompasses more than one political position.
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.
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 got too frustrating and he is now trying to change the structures that keep people poor.
Sister Pamela Hussey
Sister Pamela Hussey is one of the Catholic Institute for International Relations ‘faith reflection writers’. She has worked in Salvadorean refugee camps in Honduras and in 2000 was awarded the MBE for ‘services to human rights in Latin America’
Make Poverty History - a stroll through the Bible
Talks 1 - Rise Friday
Make Poverty History is utopian. But what's wrong with being captivated by a dream?
Nick Cave; Artist, Prophet & Apologist
The Club Sunday
A survey of the cultural impact of the life and music of artist and writer Nick Cave.
Civil Partnerships? Gay Marriages?
Talks 1 - Rise Sunday
A Christian and parliamentary look at the panel.
I blog therefore I am
Talks 1 - Rise Sunday
With the number of blogs doubling twice a year, Paul Northup chairs a debates on the possible lasting impacts of this new craze. Will we be reading the new Samuel Pepys' blog in 400 years time? Is a blog just a dreadful ego trip? Do they spell the beginning of the end for the printed press?
Tom Hewitt
Tom Hewitt is Amos Trust's international street children director. He was first exposed to the issue of street children in Mozambique in 1990 during the country's civil war. Soon after he started working with them in South Africa's East London, where he ran shelters during the last years of apartheid. His wrote his first book –– Little Outlaws, Dirty Angels –– about the subject.
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' issues.
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 a short visit to the Church of the Saviour, Washington that introduced her to ‘Zacchean’ economics.
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 and considered analysis of community work.
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.
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 Bare’, but is perhaps best known for the ethical manual ‘A Good Life’.
David Wilkinson
David Wilkinson is Wesley Research Lecturer in Theology and Science at the University of Durham.
David Thomson
David Thomson is Archdeacon of Carlisle, looking after churches and ministers in a thousand square miles of the most beautiful countryside in the world.
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 for Stable Currencies.
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 Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ.
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