Festival
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Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor is a popular author, speaker, and preacher who teaches religion at Piedmont College in rural northeast Georgia. -
Eric Kaufmann
Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth (Profile 2010), The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America (Harvard 2004) and The Orange Order (Oxford 2007) and several other books. He is co-editor, among others, … -
Bidisha
Bidisha is a writer, critic and TV and radio broadcaster specialising in the arts and culture, social justice and international affairs. She signed her first book deal, with HarperCollins, at 16. Her first novel, Seahorses, was published to commercial and critical success when she was 18. She has … -
Mark Braverman
Dr. Mark Braverman is a Jewish American. Traveling to Israel/Palestine in 2006 he was transformed by witnessing the occupation of Palestine and by encounters with peace activists and civil society leaders from the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities. In his writing and speaking Dr. Braverman focuses on the … -
Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford has been working full-time as a writer since 1990. As well as editing two highly-praised literary anthologies, he is the author of three books. I May Be Some Time (1995) was a cultural history of the British obsession with polar exploring, The Child That Books Built … -
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 … -
Dave Andrews
Dave, his wife Ange, and their family, have lived and worked in intentional communities with marginalised groups of people in Australia, Afghanistan, India and Nepal for forty years. www.daveandrews.com.au Dave is interested in radical spirituality, incarnational community and the dynamics of personal and social transformation. He is author of … -
Fr Christopher Jamison
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1951, Father Christopher was educated in England and holds degrees in Modern Languages, Philosophy and Theology. After becoming a member of the Benedictine community at Worth Abbey, he was ordained priest in 1978. He was Headmaster of Worth from 1994 until … -
Rose Hudson Wilkin
Rev Hudson-Wilkin was born and grew up in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Commissioned a Church Army Officer in 1982, her theological training took place on the West Midlands Ministerial Training Course at Queens Theological College. She was ordained Deacon in 1991, and Priest in 1994. In 2007 she was appointed … -
John Bell
John Bell is a paid itinerant who, in the past year, has visited exotic locations such as Lampeter, Durisdeer, Trowbridge and Paraguay to make sure that they are still there and that the inhabitants are breathing. He was refused admission to the Ned Ludd Society on the grounds … -
Margaret Hebblethwaite
Margaret Hebblethwaite is an author, journalist and theologian, with experience in prison work, Ignatian retreat-giving, preaching to students, English teaching to the rural poor in Latin America, and travel-writing. From 1991 she was assistant editor at the Tablet, until she gave up her job in 2000 to go and … -
Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor has published three novels to tremendous acclaim: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to Begin and Even the Dogs. He is the winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been twice longlisted for the Man Booker … -
Maurice Glasman
Maurice Glasman was born in Walthamstow in 1961 and went to JFS Comprehensive School and then St Catherine's College, Cambridge where he studied Modern History. He did his doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence ' his thesis published as a book, Unnecessary Suffering, in 1995. He … -
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 … -
Vicky Beeching
Vicky Beeching is a musician, a communicator, a social media consultant and PhD student. After graduating from Oxford with a BA and MA in theology she signed with record label EMI and moved to the USA to record and tour. Eight years later she returned to the UK … -
Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis is a speaker, author, activist and international commentator on ethics and public life. He was a founder of Sojourners, the Christian campaigning organisation for peace and justice, and continues to edit its magazine, read by 120,000 people. His most recent book God's Politics, was said by … -
Stella Duffy
Stella Duffy has written seven literary novels including her latest, Theodora, Actress, Empress, Whore. The Room of Lost Things and State of Happiness were both long-listed for the Orange Prize. She has also written the five novels of the Saz Martin crime series, eight plays, and over forty …
