Iain Sinclair
- Walking the tarmac collar, riding the supercity highway
- Iain Sinclair in Conversation with John Davies
Iain Sinclair is the author of London Orbital and Hackney, That Rose Red Empire, and one of Britain's best-known writers within the genre of psychogeography.
Tamsin Omond
Tamsin Omond is the founder of Climate Rush, a group campaigning for environmental change.
Rita Nakashima Brock
- Rita Brock
- Having faith in art
- Saving Paradise: A Life-Affirming Christianity of Justice, Joy, and Love of Beauty, Hidden in Plain Sight
- Saving Paradise: How Are We to Understand the Crucifixion If This World Is Paradise?
- Saving Paradise: An Earth Embracing, Beauty-Loving, Justice-Seeking Christianity for this New Century
Rita Brock is a leading theologian and co-author of Saving Paradise, one of Publishers Weekly’s top books on religion in 2008.
Sally Nicholls
Sally Nicholls is the author of Ways To Live Forever, winner of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008.
David Lammy MP
David Lammy MP is Government Minister for Higher Education, with a passion for getting people to continue in post-18 education.
Billy Childish
Artist, author, poet, songwriter, photographer, filmmaker... It's fair to say that Billy Childish is a multi-talented guy.
Panel: Is Tax Dodging Making Poverty Permanent?
Today there are still 1.6bn people living in extreme poverty and tonight over 850 million people will go to bed hungry. Can aid alone fully address the problem of global poverty?
Gene Robinson
- Homosexuality: What the Bible says & why it matters
- Keeping your cool in the eye of the storm
- Sexuality and spirituality: keeping them together
Gene Robinson was elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire on June 7, 2003, consecrated a Bishop on All Saints Sunday, November 2, 2003, and invested as the Ninth Bishop of New Hampshire on March 7, 2004.
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde is a best-selling novelist, author of The Fourth Bear, The Big Over Easy and the highly-successful Thursday Next series.
Margaret Barker
Margaret is a former Maths and RE teacher who developed Temple Theology, a new way of doing biblical study that links Old and New testaments to Christian worship and current environment concerns.
Robert Beckford
Dr Robert Beckford is a Theologian, Author and Documentary Filmaker based at London Metropolitan University. He has been at the forefront of the theology and cultural studies movement in Britian for the last decade.
Ursula King
Ursula King FRSA is an internationally recognized writer on spirituality, women and religion, interfaith dialogue, modern Hinduism, Christian mysticism, and the French thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
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.
Simon Parke
“Not famous for being relevant,” according to his website, Simon Parke was a priest in the Church of England for 20 years.
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.
Dilwar Hussain
Dilwar Hussain is Head of the Policy Research Centre, based at the Islamic Foundation. His research interests include Islam in the modern world and British Muslim identity.
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.
John Bell
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.
Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor is the author of the award-winning If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and former Man Booker Prize and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year nominee.
Paula Gooder
- Taking a very long view: the end of the world in the Bible
- Secrets Revealed: The apostle Paul, mysticism and religious experience
Paula Gooder is a freelance writer and lecturer in the Bible but with a particular interest in the New Testament.
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 is currently senior project manager for the Radical Middle Way, a community-led initiative that seeks to encourage critical civic participation and the values of public service, mercy and social justice amongst young British Muslims.
Kate Pickett
Kate Pickett is a Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist.
Gillian Tett
Gillian Tett is an assistant editor of the Financial Times and oversees the global coverage of the financial markets. In March 2009 she was named Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.
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.
Michael Ward
Michael Ward is the author of Planet Narnia, which looks at the secret themes behind C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber is quite possibly the most heavily tattooed pastor you’ll ever meet. A former stand-up comic turned ordained Lutheran pastor, Nadia is the founder of House for All Sinners & Saints in Denver Colorado.
Suzanne Bray
Suzanne Bray is Professor of English Studies at Lille Catholic University in the north of France. She specialises in the areas of literature and theology, mainly in Britain, during the 20th century.
Rob Bell
Rob Bell is the author of Velvet Elvis, Sex God and Jesus Wants To Save Christians, and founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church. He also writes and narrates the highly-successful Nooma DVDs. This will be his first appearance at Greenbelt, and is his only visit to the UK in 2009.
Douglas Alexander MP
Douglas Alexander is the UK's Secretary of State for International Development. Previously Secretary of State for Transport and Secretary of State for Scotland, he worked as a lawyer before being elected a Labour MP in 1997.
Clare Catford
Clare is a journalist and has spent twenty years presenting and reporting for the UK’s major television and radio networks.
Sami Awad
- Israel/Palestine: How will a peaceful & just co-existence become a reality?
- Non-violent resistance in Palestine
- The God of occupation
Sami Awad is the Executive Director of Holy Land Trust, a Palestinian nonprofit organization which he founded in 1998 in Bethlehem.
Verene Nicolas
Verene Nicolas is a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology in Edinburgh and an experienced trainer and facilitator. Over the last few years, she has been working with deprived communities in Scotland and Ireland, providing support to community activists, especially women and black and ethnic minority people, in unfolding spiritual development and local community action.
Ann Morisy
Ann is a freelance community theologian and lecturer. She directed the Commission that wrote the report 'Faithful Cities' and has written on the spirituality of public transport, ageing, neighbourliness as a radical, and has written two best selling books - Beyond the Good Samaritan and Journeying Out.
Jeff Halper
- Jeff Halper
- Israel/Palestine: How will a peaceful & just co-existence become a reality?
- Can Obama pull off a two-state solution?
- Could the road from Gaza, Nablus and Fallujah lead to your door?
Israeli Jeff Halper co-founded ICAHD, which campaigns against the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the occupied territories.
Roman Krznaric
Roman Krznaric is on the faculty of The School of Life in London, where he is the resident Expert on Empathy.
Matt Page
Matt Page works for Open Heaven, a church in Loughborough for students, ex-students and young families. He’s one of the writers for rejesus.co.uk, runs the Bible Films Blog and is a member of the Faith and Film Critics Circle.
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 at Greenbelt on the subject of film and theology and he has led film discussion groups at the Guy Chester Centre and St. Ethelburga's.
Interesting
Saturday
Put enough people in a room (or a field) and there's bound to be a fair number of quirky hobbies, a good bit of expertise, and plenty of fascination to go around. We know many of you come to Greenbelt for the people you see there, the conversations you have and the little nuggets that pique your interest. So in a fit of "now for something a little different" we're planning to try to tap into the quirks and the expertise with a series of more unusual talks we're calling Interesting.
Diana Francis
Diana grew up in a Christian family that was committed to peace and justice as a matter of faith. She became an activist herself in her mid-teens.
Padraig O Tuama
The unofficial poet of Belfast alt worship iconoclasts Ikon, Padraig has been published in Corrymeela’s community work resources – having written poems that reflect and represent peoples’ stories of what it meant to live in Northern Ireland during the 80s till now.
Susannah Cornwall
Susannah Cornwall is an Honorary Research Fellow in Theology at the University of Exeter and also works as a pastoral assistant with the multifaith chaplaincy team there.
Mark Vernon
- How to be a religious agnostic
- Did Darwin help us understand God better?
- Beyond the cult of self-help
- How not to believe
Mark Vernon is a writer, journalist, author and faculty member at The School of Life. He began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England, left an atheist, and is now agnostic.
Alister McGrath
Alister McGrath is a Christian theologian, with a DPhil in molecular biophysics, as well as an earned Doctor of Divinity degree from Oxford, noted for his work on historical, systematic and scientific theology.
Don Brewin
For the last 13 years before retirement in 2007, Don Brewin was the National Director of "Sharing of Ministries Abroad" - an agency seeking to promote comprehensive renewal in dioceses and communities in the developing world.
Eugenie Harvey
As Eugenie Harvey approached her 30th birthday in 2000, she decided to chuck in her career and move from Sydney to London to pursue her long-held dream of doing something to make the world a better place.
Candia Crosfield
Candia currently works for Peace Child International on behalf of Quaker Peace and Social Witness, as part of their one-year Peaceworker scheme.
Symon Hill
Symon Hill works professionally to train Christian and campaigning groups in media relations, building on my PR experience with a number of organisations.
Adrienne Chaplin
Adrienne Chaplin is a philosopher of art who taught aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto before returning to the UK. She is co-author of 'Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts' and is a frequent speaker and writer on the relationship between faith and art.
Gavin Wakefield
Gavin Wakefield is an Anglican minister, leading the mission and ministry training team in the diocese of York.
Sarah Jones
Sarah was ordained Deacon in the Church of England in July 2004. In January 2005 she hit the headlines when she was outed to a national newspaper as having made a gender change many years previously. The story was covered in many national newspapers and television stations and on web sites and blogs throughout the world.
Jonathan Cox
Jonathan Cox is Lead Organiser and Director of CITIZENS for Sanctuary, the campaign to secure justice for people fleeing persecution and rebuild public support for sanctuary.
Brian Draper
Brian Draper is a former editor of Third Way Magazine and lecturer in culture at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. He now runs a small enterprise called Echosounder, nurturing spiritual intelligence in leaders.
Justin Lewis-Anthony
Justin Lewis-Anthony is Rector of St Stephen's Church in the city and diocese of Canterbury and was formerly Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Sultana Begum
Sultana Begum is 32 years old. She is British born, with a Muslim background and Bengali heritage. She thrives in a multicultural multifaith environment and is passionate about working alongside people of different faiths in the pursuit of justice and peace.
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."
Andrew Tate
When he's not watching re-runs of the West Wing, Dr. Andrew Tate lectures in English and American Literature at Lancaster University.
Zaw Lu Aung
Zaw Lu Aung was born and raised in Burma, and has spoken in the UK on Burmese issues for the past five years.
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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Kester Brewin
Kester Brewin was a founder member of Vaux, a collective of artists and city-lovers exploring the divine in the urban.
Denise Inge
Denise Inge is an Honorary Fellow in Early Modern Research at the University of Worcester and a leading authority on the priest and poet Thomas Traherne.
Chris Wills
Chris Wills is a quiz show genius, with wins on Countdown (series champion 2002), The Weakest Link and A Question of Genius.
Bruce Stanley
Bruce Stanley is a Spirituality Populariser and Life Coach. His workshops will provide an opportunity to put yourself through a life MOT.
Chris Sunderland
Chris Sunderland is a writer, storyteller and facilitator of conversation with a particular interest in applying biblical faith to the public world. He is a founder member of EarthAbbey, an emerging Christian community, whose members journey towards a life more in tune with the earth.
Husam Zolot
Husam Zomlot grew up in a Muslim family in Gaza. He served as a representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation to the UK from 2003 – 2008. He is a visiting fellow at Harvard University.
Enid Gordon
Enid Gordon, peace activist since 1965, Methodist Minister in Gateshead, lived in Bethlehem from November 2008 to February 2009.
Mike Maddox
Mike Maddox is a playwright, novelist and comics scriptwriter. He wrote the script to The Lion Graphic Bible, which has now been translated into 25 languages.
Ian Manson
Born and raised in Glasgow, Ian became a supporter of Partick Thistle from a young age and still lives to tell the tale. He is now a Church of Scotland minister working with an international congregation in Geneva where he can now ski and speak French, though not yet at the same time.
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, the lessons they've learnt and their community's dreams.
Christopher Dingle
Christopher Dingle lectures at Birmingham Conservatoire and is the author/editor of several books on the French composer Olivier Messiaen, notably the acclaimed The Life of Messiaen (CUP) and Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art and Literature. He writes for BBC Music Magazine and was a member of the jury for the BBC Music Magazine 2008 CD awards.
Jonathan Clark
Jonathan Clark is the Rector of St Mary's Stoke Newington and the chair of Affirming Catholicism.
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 (CTBI).
Russel Moffat
Russel Moffat is the Minister of St Martin’s Parish Church Edinburgh. He has a PhD in the area of science (particularly Neo-Darwinism) and religion.
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.
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.
Jacob Devadason
Jacob Devadason was born and brought up in India in a Dalit Community. He now leads the Tamarind Project, a partner project of Amos Trust, in the area where he grew up.
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.
Dr Mike Edwards
Dr Mike Edwards is CAFOD's Climate Change Director. He has worked in the environment field for over 15 years and has given lectures on climate change all over the world.
Ruth Bennett
Ruth Bennett is the Deputy Director of LCET. She has worked for over 10 years with young people in need in Luton.
Humera Khan
Humera Khan is one of the most important Muslim voices speaking and writing in Britain today. Founder of the pioneering An-Nisa Society in Wembley, she has been an activist and educator for over 20 year.
Matthew Bishop
Matthew Bishop is American Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief for The Economist.
Neal Lawson
- All consuming: how shopping got us into this mess and how we can find our way out
- With a crunch and a crash
Neal Lawson is the author of All-Consuming: How Shopping Got Us Into This Mess and How We Can Find Our Way Out.
Pip Wilson
- Growth does not reside in a place called comfortable
- Will you still need me, will you still feed me…'
Pip Wilson is a Beautiful Human Person who became an Adult when he was 40.
Margaret Robertson
A historian by training, Margaret Robertson is the former editor of leading computer games magazine Edge and now works as a videogame consultant, advising companies like EA, Sony and Channel 4 on game design and industry trends.
Peter Ryder
Pete Ryder has spent most of his life with time on his hands – in the form of geology and archaeology; he is also a song-writer and regular Greenbelt fringe performer.
Martin Day
Martin Day is a novelist, playwright and TV scriptwriter. He’s also one of the writers on the Doctor Who Adventures comic, which makes him the single coolest person at the entire festival.
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.
Jeff Anderson
Jeff Anderson is a Church of England vicar serving in the north east of England. Before ordination he worked for 2000AD as a comic strip artist. He was the artist on the award winning Lion Graphic Bible.
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.
Jonathan Oliver
Jonathan Oliver is the Editor-in-Chief of Abaddon Books as well as the Graphic Novels Editor for 2000 AD. He is also a writer and his first novel, Twilight of Kerberos: The Call of Kerberos will be published later this year.
Annie Porthouse
Annie Porthouse takes full blame for the creation of the Christian chick-lit hit Dear Bob (and the sequel Love Jude). To kill time she works as commissioning editor for the Christian magazines thewalk and benchmark.
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.
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.
Jamie Treadwell
Jamie Treadwell is a personal performance life coach, Christian mission entrepreneur, professional artist, and member of the Servants of the Word, a lay brotherhood living single for the Lord in the context of covenant community.
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 for women in youth work.
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 mission, arts, culture and business in the UK and USA. She is passionate about mission and justice and empowering others to realize and utilize their gifts.
Jennie Gilhesby
Lynsey Johnston
Lynsey Johnston is LCET’s specialist in ’children in care’. She works with young people helping them to work through many of the issues associated with being part of the care system.
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