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Caspar Melville
Caspar Melville is editor of New Humanist. Formerly a former music journalist, he has a PhD in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths College, London. His first book, Taking Offence, was published in 2009. Speaking on Monday
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Douglas Alexander MP
Shadow Foreign Secretary and Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South. Between May 2001 – May 2010 served in a wide range of Ministerial positions including Secretary of State for International Development, Secretary of State for Transport and Secretary of State for Scotland, Minister for e-Commerce, DTI …
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Erwin James
Erwin James is a contributing writer for The Guardian. He served 20 years of a life sentence before his release in August 2004. His first article in the Guardian appeared in 1998 and two collections of his columns have since been published. Speaking on Monday
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Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and writes for the newspaper Haaretz. A notable journalist on the Israeli left, Levy has been characterized variously as a "propagandist for the Hamas" to a "heroic journalist". Speaking on Saturday
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Giles Fraser
Dr Giles Fraser is the former canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. He is a columnist for the Church Times and The Guardian and writes on issues on contemporary philosophical thought, ethics and art. Speaking on Saturday & Sunday
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Kate Coleman
Kate Coleman is associate pastor of The Regeneration Centre in Birmingham, and a former President of the Baptist Union. She is a popular preacher, teacher, speaker, advisor and lecturer. Speaking on Saturday
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Hannah Lownsbrough
Hannah Lownsbrough is Campaigns DIrector at 38 Degrees, a community of over 1 million people campaigning together to make change happen on the issues we care about. Speaking on Saturday, Sunday & Monday
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Lucy Winkett
Lucy Winkett is Rector of St James’s Piccadilly. Until 2010 she was Canon Precentor at St Paul’s Cathedral. She is the author of the best selling “Our Sound is our Wound” (Continuum 2010) which was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book and is a regular contributor to Radio …
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Rev Richard Coles
Richard Coles (born 26 March 1962) is a musician, journalist and Church of England priest. He is known for having been the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band The Communards, which achieved three Top Ten hits, including the Number 1 record and best-selling single of …
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Rita Nakashima Brock
Rita Brock is a leading theologian and co-author of Saving Paradise, one of Publishers Weekly's top books on religion in 2008. Dr. Brock is also an international lecturer, professor of religion, former director of the fellowship program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and has served on the …
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Roman Krznaric
Roman Krznaric is a cultural thinker and founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, which offers instruction and inspiration on the important questions of everyday life. He advises organisations including Oxfam and the United Nations on using empathy and conversation to create social change, and …
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Shane Claiborne
Shane is a founding partner of The Simple Way, a radical faith community that lives among and serves the homeless in Kensington, North Philadelphia.
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Tom Wright
Tom Wright, until recently Bishop of Durham, is currently Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews and is a regular broadcaster on radio and television. He is the author of over forty books, including the For Everyone guides to the New …
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Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo is professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University, a former faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, and the founder and president of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education. He has written more than 35 books and blogs regularly at his website, "redletterchristians.org(Red …
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Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch is the author of five collections of poems and three collections of essays including The Undertaking, which won the American Book Award, The Heartland Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He inspired the award-winning HBO series Six Feet Under and has been …
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Pádraig Ó Tuama
Padraig has been a Greenbelt mainstay since 2008, with his poetic insight into community work, peace-building and theology. We’re always happy to welcome him back, giving voice to people’s experiences of life, and finding a light amidst the gloom...
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small talks. big ideas.
What’s the big idea? You’ve got ten minutes. If we were to crunch down to under ten words the essence of this new strand within the Greenbelt talks programme, we just did and you just missed it. The first two sentences of this paragraph.
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