Talks at Greenbelt 2008: Rising Sun
Abdul-Rehman Malik
Abdul-Rehman Malik is London-based journalist and educator. A contributing editor at Q-News - a leading Muslim current affairs magazine, he...
Aimie Littler
Aimie Littler directs 'The Truth Isn't Sexy' Campaign against sex trafficking. She has a background in Cultural Studies, acting and design. Alongside...
Anders Bergquist
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Andrew Graystone
Andrew Graystone is the Director of the Church and Media Network and a prolfic producer, writer and presenter for BBC Religion and BBC Radio...
Andrew Pendleton
Andrew Pendleton is journalist by profession and is currently working for Christian Aid as its senior policy officer on climate change and sustainable...
Andrew Rumsey
Andrew Rumsey is Vicar of Gipsy Hill in South London. A seasoned Greenbelt speaker and performer, his latest book Strangely Warmed (published...
Andy Mellen
Andy Mellen is an organic smallholder and lives in Suffolk. He has spent 6 years in Africa working on sustainable development projects. ...
Angela Sarkis
Angela was appointed to the position of YMCA National Secretary, from 1 August 2006. Prior to this she worked as an independent Management consultant...
Ann Morisy
Ann is a freelance community theologian and lecturer. She directed the Commission that wrote the report 'Faithful Cities' and has written on...
Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is the part-time campaigns director for Operation Noah, the climate change campaign based at Churches Together in Britain and Ireland...
Ann Roach
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Anthony Reddie
Anthony G. Reddie is a Research Fellow in Black Theology at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. He...
Barry Taylor
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Becky Garrison
Becky Garrison is Senior Contributing Editor for The Wittenburg Door and author of Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church, as well as the forthcoming...
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'...
Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng
Bishop Nelson was ordained in 1977 and consecrated Bishop of Northern Uganda Diocese in 1998. As a founding member of the Acholi Religious...
Bob Holman
Bob Holman survived the London blitz and then failed the eleven plus. Got to university and the new welfare state meant he studied for free....
Brian McLaren
Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists. He is a frequent...
Bruce and Sarah Stanley
Bruce Stanley ran away from the circus to become a life coach and run embody.co.uk, an umbrella for creative project development. These days...
Carolyn Hayman
Throughout a varied career in government, business and the not for profit sector, Carolyn Haymans focus has been on startups and innovation,...
Charlie Irvine
Charlie Irvine is a freelance mediator, helping people resolve conflict in families, the workplace, education and business. He is particularly...
Ched Myers
Ched Myers is an activist theologian who has worked in social change movements for three decades. With a degree in New Testament Studies,...
Clare Catford
Clare is a journalist and has spent twenty years presenting and reporting for the UK’s major television and radio networks. She has worked...
Dave Bookless
Dave Bookless is a former barman and vicar, and also founder and National Director of A Rocha UK - part of a Christian environmental movement...
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 Dark
David Dark has something funny and interesting to say about all kinds of things. He brings his troubled wits to bear on Flannery O'Connor,...
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...
Dilly Baker
Dilly works in a developmental role for Scargill, an ecumenical centre in the Yorkshire Dales that has recently been delivering a groundbreaking...
Doug Gay
Doug Gay is a long term Greenbelter who teaches Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow. His current research focuses on 'emerging church'...
Douglas Alexander
Douglas Alexander MP was appointed Secretary of State for International Development in June. He was previously Secretary of State for Transport...
Dr. Hany El-Banna
Dr Hany El Banna is co-founder and President of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), an international relief and development organisation which aims...
Fran Beckett
The Church Urban Fund is celebrating the announcement of its Chief Executive, Fran Beckett, being awarded an OBE in this years New Year Honours...
Frank Schaeffer
Frank Schaeffer is a best-selling author. His fiction, humour and nonfiction have received international critical acclaim. The Los Angeles...
Fuad Dagher
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Fuzz Kito
Fuzz travels the world collecting stories, creating stories and spreading rumours of hope. He is a Church Consultant, minister, writer and coach. He...
Fuzz Kitto
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Gareth Higgins
Gareth Higgins a northern Irish writer, film critic and broadcaster, and Executive Director of the Wild Goose Festival, a Greenbelt-inspired...
Giles Fraser
Giles Fraser has been Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral since September 2009. He is a columnist for the Church Times and The Guardian...
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...
Harfiyah Haleem
Harfiyah Haleem has been a trustee of IFEES, the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences since 2003. She is the editor of...
Ian Mobsby
Ian Mobsby is an Ordained Priest Missioner for the Moot Community, an emerging, new monastic and fresh expression of Church in the City of London....
Iwan Russell-Jones
Iwan Russell-Jones joined BBC Wales as a producer in 1984, and apart from a gap of four years, he's been there ever since. In the gap he was...
James Alison
James Alison (b. 1959) is a Catholic theologian, priest and author. He has studied, lived and worked in Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and the...
James Cary
James Cary is a comedy writer for the BBC who has won a Sony Radio Award and been nominated for a Perrier Best Newcomer award. James...
Jane Corbett
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Jane Corbett & Ann Roach
Ann and Jane have been working together in West Everton in Liverpool for well over 20 years now. They are passionate about their community,...
Janey Lee Grace
Janey Lee Grace from Steve Wright in the Afternoon (BBC Radio 2) is the author of No1 best selling book 'Imperfectly Natural Woman’ She has...
Jenny Baker
Jenny Baker is a writer, trainer and creator of resources with a background in teaching and youth work. She is a co-founder of The Sophia Network...
Jo Berry
Jo has been on a long journey since her father, Sir Anthony Berry MP, was killed by the IRA in the bombing of the 1984 Tory Party conference...
Jo Rathbone
With a background in social work and world development issues, Jo has been running the Eco-congregation programme in England & Wales for 3 years....
Joel Edwards
Joel Edwards has served on a number of faith, government and public agency advisory groups and is a regular broadcaster for UK and international...
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...
John Davies
Born in Walton Hospital, John grew up in a house on the banks of the Mersey. A welder, draughtsman, volunteer in an outdoor pursuits centre,...
John Henson
John Henson is a graduate in theology from Oxford and s now a Baptist minister. A member of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, he has lectured...
John O'Donohue
John O'Donohue is an Irish poet and philosopher who lives in the solitude of a cottage in the West of Ireland and speaks Gaelic as his native...
John Smith
Dr John Smith is the founder and Executive Director of Concern Australia and the founding President of God’s Squad Christian Motorcycle Club...
John Swinton
John Swinton holds the chair in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom. He is also an...
Jon Mackay
Jon Mackay is an Oxfordshire based photographer working in a variety of situations from live music shoots to the 'So What Do You Think?' photography...
Jonathan Kuttab
Jonathan Kuttab is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and activist. He studied in the U.S. and is a member of the bar there. He came back...
Jude Simpson
Performance poetry at its most engaging and energetic in the shape of walking feelgood factor Jude Simpson. Fifteen extra laughter lines with...
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...
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,...
Keith Ward
Keith Ward taught philosophy at Glasgow, St. Andrews, King's College, London and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1972 in the C...
Kerry Anthony
Kerry Anthony has been working in homeless services in a range of roles for over 12 years in the UK and Ireland. Her area of particular interest...
Lucy Winkett
Lucy Winkett is Canon Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral in London. She is a founding advisor of the public theology thinktank Theos, a columnist...
Marc Ellis
Marc H. Ellis is University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Center of Jewish Studies at Baylor University. He has lectured...
Mark Russell
Mark is the youngest Chief Executive of Church Army, a leading home mission agency linked to the Anglican Church. Church Army has over 350...
Mark Yaconelli
Mark Yaconelli is an author, speaker, and retreat leader. He is the Co-Founder of Triptykos, a public action program for engaged compassion...
Matthew Reed
Matthew Reed is the Church and Community Director for Christian Aid. At the age of 38 he is the youngest member of the directorate. Matthew...
Maureen Jack
Maureen Jack is a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and has served with CPT in Hebron and At-Tuwani in occupied Palestine, as well...
Maya Anne Evans
Best known as the first person convicted under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 for carrying out a peaceful anti Iraq war protest,...
Michael Northcott
Michael Northcott is Professor of Ethics in New College in the University of Edinburgh, a trustee of Traidcraft, and an Episcopal Priest. He...
Micheal O'Siadhail
Intense, engaging and accessible, poet Micheal OSiadhail returns to Greenbelt with his latest collection, Globe (Bloodaxe, 2007), an exploration...
Mike Royal
Mike is the National Director of The Lighthouse Group, a charity that works with young people who have been excluded from school or are in crisis...
Mona Siddiqui
Mona Siddiqui is the Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding and the Director of Centre for the Study of Islam at the Departmenof...
Morna Hooker
Morna Hooker studied Theology at the University of Bristol, and then undertook biblical research. She moved to Cambridge in 1976 as Lady Margaret's...
Naima Bouteldja
Naima Bouteldja (31), France, is a freelance journalist and activist in Britain. She has an MA in International Economics and Finances from...
Niall Cooper
Niall Cooper has written, spoken and broadcast extensively on the themes of housing, community, poverty and the relationship between faith,...
Niall Williams
Hailed by the Irish Times as “a Dickens for the 21st century”, best-selling novelist Niall Williams makes his first Greenbelt appearance...
Nick Baines
Nick Baines is the Bishop of Croydon. He was a professional linguist before ordination and has worked all over England. He has written four...
Nigel Varndell
Nigel Varndell is the Director of Church Partnerships at The Children’s Society and a long time Greenbelter. He spends his idle moments thinking...
Niki Gollings
Niki Gollings is a youthworker with the 'e:merge' project in Bradford. E:merge is nationally recognised for its work enabling young people...
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Paula Gooder
Paula Gooder is a freelance writer and lecturer in the Bible but with a particular interest in the New Testament. She is a Reader in the...
Pete Rollins
One-time Christian, evangelist and full-time charismatic, Peter is now a Christ-following provocateur, revelation-inspiring lecturer, and founding...
Philip Roderick
Philip is percussionist and composer with Sheer Sound, Founder-Director of The Quiet Garden Movement, author, speaker, leader of Contemplative...
Philip Yancey
Growing up in a strict, fundamentalist church in the Deep South, a young Philip Yancey was impelled to view God as an abusive parent - rigid,...
Pip Wilson
Pip Wilson is a Beautiful Human Person who became an Adult when he was 40. His work has ranged from :: ~ Urban Street Gangs in East London...
Prem Mitra
Prem Mitra from Bangalore India is an activist on behalf of Dalits, a theologian, a priest in the Church of South India and the chair of A Rocha...
Rabbi Natan Levy
Rabbi Natan Levy is the Jewish University Chaplain for the West of England and Wales. He serves as the consultant for Social Action at the London...
Raj Patel
Raj has co-authored Why do Christians Wear Ties?, Stealing Other Peoples Decisions is Wrong!, Asians Cant Play Football!, Equal Partners?...
Rhidian Brook
Rhidian Brook is an award-winning novelist, screen and short story writer. His first novel, The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones (Flamingo, Harper...
Richard A. Burridge
The Revd Professor Richard A. Burridge has been Dean of King's College London since 1993; and was appointed to a personal Chair in Biblical...
Robert Beckford
Dr Robert Beckford is a Theologian, Author and Documentary Filmaker based at London Metropolitan University. He has been at the forefront of...
Rosemary Lain-Priestley
Rosemary Lain-Priestley is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s 'Thought for the Day' and the author of The Courage to Connect: Becoming...
Ruth Harvey Regan
Four years ago Ruth left church. In leaving she lost her faith, identity and community. She has since been engaged in a creative journey of...
Ruth Valerio
Ruth Valerio is the Manager of A Rocha’s Living Lightly 24:1 project, which enables people to live greener, simpler lives, and is the author...
Sabina Alkire
Sabina Alkire is an economist and a non-stipendiary Anglican priest. She directs the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, a new research...
Salley Vickers
Salley Vickers is the author of Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3 and Miss Garnet's Angel. And at Greenbelt this year she will...
Sara Miles
Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and writer. Then early one morning, for no earthly...
Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams is the Campaigns Officer with Anti-Slavery International and lives in London. She has a degree in social and political sciences...
Shannon Hopkins
Shannon Hopkins has been a key player in developing the 'Truth Isn't Sexy' Campaign. For the last decade she has been catalysing projects around...
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...
Stephen Carrick-Davies
Stephen Carrick-Davies is the CEO of Childnet a non-profit organisation working internationally in its mission of 'helping to make the internet...
Stephen Sizer
Stephen is the vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water. He and his wife have been in full time Christian ministry together for 30 years. He...
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...
Stu Hallam
Stu Hallam has been coming to Greenbelt since 1984 when he played on the fringe with his then band, ‘Refreshments Available’ - “we were...
Sue Mayfield
Sue Mayfield is a Cheltenham-based writer best known for her award-winning novels for teenagers, several of which deal with themes of bereavement...
Tess Ward
Tess Ward was co-celebrant of the Greenbelt Communion 2005 and author of The Celtic Wheel of the Year O books 2007. She is a hospital chaplain...
Tina Beattie
Dr Tina Beattie is Professor in Catholic Studies at Roehampton University, where she specialises in Christian ethics, theologies and theories...
Tobias Jones
Tobias Jones is the author of The Dark Heart of Italy and of Utopian Dreams (both Faber & Faber). He has written and presented documentaries...
Tony Juniper
Tony Juniper has been an environmental campaigner for nearly 20 years. Since 2003 he has been the Executive Director of Friends of the Earth...
Vic Thiessen
Vic Thiessen is a Canadian Mennonite theologian who has worked as the director of the London Mennonite Centre since 2002. He is a regular speaker...
Wahida Shaffi
Wahida Shaffi is a freelance consultant and researcher. She is a qualified social worker with a background in social and community work. She...
Wisam Salsaa
He's a Palestinin tour guide, a Catholic and helps to run his father's olive wood factory. He is married with 2 daughters Leah and Sarah....
Yehuda Shaul
Yehuda Shaul is an Israeli ex-soldier who served in Hebron in a combat unit at the peak of the intifada. He is a founder of Breaking the Silence,...