Talks at Greenbelt 2010: The art of looking sideways
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...
Abe Hayeem
Abe Hayeem, an Iraqi Jew born in India and settled in the UK, has been an architect , writer, and peace activist since the 1960s. Contrary...
Alistair Pearson
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Andrew Brown
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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 Dorton
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Andy Dreitcer
Andy Dreitcer--Director of Spiritual Formation and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Claremont School of Theology in Southern...
Anna Hembury
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Annie Porthouse
Annie Porthouse: author of Scripture Union's best-selling young adult novel - 'Dear Bob', a Bridget-Jones style exploration into 'Jude Singleton's'...
Bishop Tim Stevens
Bishop Tim Stevens was raised in a rural vicarage in Essex and went to Chigwell School. After leaving school he spent a year in Zambia with...
Brian Klug
Dr. Brian Klug is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford, and Hon. Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study...
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...
Bruce Kent
Bruce Kent is a life-long peace campaigner, former Catholic parish priest and university chaplain. He has now retired from the Priesthood, but...
Bulelwa Ngantweni-Hewitt (Mandi)
Bulelwa (Mandi) Hewitt is head of Public Relations at Umthombo Street Children. Bulelwa grew up on a rubbish dump in East London, South Africa...
Chris Elliot
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Chris Hembury
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Chris Powell
Chris Powell is a Group Analyst and Head of Community Psychological Therapies at The Retreat York, a Quaker run psychiatric hospital, and host...
Chris Rose
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Chris Sunderland
Chris Sunderland has been, at various times, a research biochemist, working in an Oxford laboratory at the cutting edge of biotechnology and...
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...
Clare Short
Clare Short was MP for Birmingham Ladywood 1983-2010. She was Secretary of State for International Development 1997-2003. She resigned...
Cole Moreton
Cole Moreton is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. He writes for the Guardian, the Sunday Times Magazine and the Mail on Sunday,...
Dave Andrews
Dave and Ange and their family have lived and worked in intentional Christian communities with marginalised people in Asia and Australia for...
Dave Smith
Dave Smith is founder and director of the Boaz Trust, a Manchester charity supporting and accommodating destitute asylum seekers, and...
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...
Dave Wiles
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David Morrissey
David Morrissey is best known as one of Britain’s busiest actors. He’s appeared in the acclaimed dramas State of Play, The Deal (RTS best...
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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...
Donald Reeves
Donald Reeves is the director and founder of the Soul of Europe. Working in Bosnia and Kosovo bringing people together there to realise Nelson...
Eliacin Rosario-Cruz
Born in Puerto Rico moved to the Pacific Northwest/ husband and father/ rabble rouser/ organizer/ communitarian/ cultivator/ provocatuer/ grassroot...
Elizabeth Bayliss
Elizabeth Bayliss is director of Social Action for Health, a community health development charity. She has lived and worked in inner London...
Fiona Joseph
Fiona Joseph is a writer of educational textbooks and online resources, short fiction and biography. She is a recent graduate of the National...
Frank Rogers
Frank Roger, Professor of Spiritual Life and Narrative Pedagogy at Claremont School of Theology in Southern California. Frank's research and...
Fresh Expressions
Fresh Expressions: Stephen Lindridge of the Fresh Expressions team; Ian Bell of VentureFX and the Methodist pioneer ministries scheme; and Simon...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gustavo Parajon
*Pastor, First Baptst Church Managua until July1, 2010 *Founding President, CEPAD, Nicaraguan Council of Evangelical Churches *President,...
Ian Green
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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....
Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe, born in Haifa in 1954 is currently a Chair in the Department of History, in the University of Exeter and a co-director of the Exeter...
James Wood
James created BBC2’s sitcom hit Rev with its star Tom Hollander. He had previously created Freezing, a sitcom also starring Hollander, and...
Jane Clements
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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...
Jennie Gilhespy
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Jeremy Hardy
Jeremy Hardy is a comedian, commentator and Radio 4 favourite. From his unique interpretations of melody on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, to his...
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 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...
John Waller
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Joint Public Issues Team
The Joint Public Issues Team is a body that speaks for the Methodist, Baptist and United Reform Churches to promote the importance of Christian...
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 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...
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a leader of the new monastic movement, co-founder of the Rutba House community, and associate minister at St. John's...
Jude Levermore
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Karen Ward
Karen Ward is an Episcopal priest and the Abbess of Church of the Apostles, Seattle (www.apostleschurch.org) an intentional, sacramental community...
Kate Coleman
Kate Coleman is associate pastor of The Regeneration Centre in Birmingham, and a former President of the Baptist Union. Coleman was the first...
Katherine Venn
Katherine Venn studied for a Masters in Creative Writing at UEA in 2009, then returned to London to continue working part-time as a commissioning...
Keith Skene
Dr Keith Skene, writer, lecturer, scientist and a former AARS Scholar (Australian Association of Rhodes Scholars). He is director of the Biosphere...
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...
Kester Brewin
Kester Brewin is a part-time teacher, freelance writer and author. His first book 'The Complex Christ' was hailed as one of the most important...
Lauren Horswell
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Lesley Misrahi
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Liz Dorton
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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...
Mandy Marshall
Mandy Marshall is co-founder and co-Director of Restored, a Christian organisation aimed at transforming relationships and ending violence against...
Mark Vernon
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...
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...
Martin Evans
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Martyn Atkins
Martyn Atkins is General Secretary of the Methodist Church in Britain. He is ordained, and served as tutor and principal of a Methodist training...
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...
Mike Salmon
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mothers union
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Nicola Hambridge
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Nicola Slee
Nicola Slee is a feminist theologian and poet who has written extensively in the fields of Christian feminist theology, liturgy, spirituality...
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...
Oliver James
Born in 1953, he went on to complete a degree in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and trained as a child clinical psychologist at...
Padraig O Tuama
Pádraig lives in Belfast where he works in chaplaincy with young people, as well as community work. He has worked with the Corrymeela Community...
Paul Badham
Paul Badham was a student at Oxford, Cambridge, and Birmingham and was a Curate in two Anglican parishes in Birmingham. Since 1973 he has...
Paul Chandler
Paul Chandler is the chief executive of Traidcraft, the UK’s leading fair trade organisation, which consists of a trading company and an overseas...
Paul Rock
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Paula Clifford
Dr Paula Clifford currently leads Christian Aid's strategy on climate change and is head of Church Communications for the organisation. She...
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 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,...
Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne is a journailst and political commentator. A Daily Mail columnist and author of The Rise of Political Lying, he is particularly...
Peter Sanders
Peter Sanders began his career in the 1960s as one of London’s leading photographers of rock musicians. His pictures of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix,...
Peter Selby
He has maintained his interest in prisons since retirement, and is President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards. He also...
Peter Tatchell
For over 40 years, Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights, democracy and global justice. Describing himself as driven by a love...
Phil Stone
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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...
Rachel Morley
Rachel Morley is a consultant clinical psychologist working with asylum seekers in Glasgow and a passionate critic of UK asylum policy. She...
Rachel Turner
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Rebecca Cain
Rebecca Cain is a Career coach based near Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire. After spending 12 years in the Corporate HR World, she went freelance...
Reg Bailey
Reg made history as the first male Chief Executive of Mothers’ Union in the organisation’s 130 years. Formerly CEO of Danish Bacon plc and...
Richard Chartres
Richard John Carew Chartres became the 132nd Bishop of London in November 1995. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School and studied history...
Richard Harries
Described by Rowan Williams as one of the modern churches “truly great and memorable figures” Richard Harries was Bishop of Oxford from...
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...
Rosalyn Clare
Rosalyn Clare is passionate about seeing people develop and change. She escaped the corporate rat race to backpack around the world. Rosalyn...
Ruth Anthony
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S:Vox
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Saga Arpino
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Sami Awad
Sami Awad, a Palestinian Christian living in Bethlehem. He is the Executive Director of Holy Land Trust (HLT), a Palestinian not-for-profit...
Sarah Edwards
Sarah currently leads Health Poverty Action's policy and campaigns team. She has previously worked for Jubilee Debt Campaign, Anti-Slavery International,...
Simon Parke
Simon Parke was a priest in the Church of England for twenty years before opting for fresh adventures.He worked in a supermarket for three years,...
Solomuzi Mabuza
Solomuzi Mabuza is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa. Currently, he is employed by the Ujamaa Centre...
Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of Duke University. Though he is often...
Sue Plater
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Swee Ang
Currently a Consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Barts and the Royal London Hospital. She was the first woman orthopaedic surgeon to...
Symon Hill and Mike Elliot
Symon Hill is a Quaker Christian, activist, trainer and writer. He is a news editor for The Friend, an associate director of the Ekklesia thinktank...
Tim Mayfield
Convinced that the history of music really begins with the first performance of Stravinsky's 'Petrushka' in 1912, Tim Mayfield prefers his music...
Tom Allen
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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...
Tom Sine
Tom is hospitality guy at the mustard seed house in Seattle. He enjoys cooking food from all over the world for friends from all over the world....
Trevor Adams
Trevor Adams is a Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Surrey and specialises in Dementia Care. He has written over 50 papers and...