Palestine/Israel resources
We've created a sort of living wall of Greenbelt-produced and Greenbelt-connected inspiration and provocation related to the Palestine/Israel conflict. From voices and artists we've been...
Remembering Pip Wilson
Love has no off-switch: it's not about like or dislike. Love can help us see that people are beautiful. We learned of the death of our dear Pip Wilson overnight (Friday 22 September). We will...
The Rise of Rishi (et al)
Yasmin digs into the phenomenon of Black and Asians who rise to the top, asking: is this entryism?; an example of post-racial Britain? Or is it, once again, co-option by white power merchants? Are...
Speaker(s): Yasmin Alibhai-BrownWhat would Jesus eat?
Cooking is part of the daily routine for most of us, providing sustenance and comfort. Yet most of us cook only nine different meals on rotation.So the prospect of changing those habits and moving...
Speaker(s): YCCN (Young Christian Climate Network)Risky (Social) Business
Steve Baker (former Greenbelt Board chair and serial social entrepreneur), Antoinette Daniel (Living Wage Award winner 2022) and Rosie Hopley and Claire Dormand (Lovewell founders) will discuss how...
Being Home
The Pickwell Foundation and their Asylum and Refugee Director Susannah Baker (MBE) bring you stories of how their community in rural North Devon have welcomed people seeking asylum as well as those...
Speaker(s): Pickwell FoundationSaving for a Rainy Day
The church has money, yet there is a persistant sense of scarcity in the institution. We're told assests and investment are being saved for a rainy day. But isn't pouring? Join Eve Poole (ex-Church...
Speaker(s): Eve PooleSecret Power: Why it wants to destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
The Julian Assange and WikiLeaks case marks a crossroads for our democracies. A society that does not allow journalists to expose state criminality freely and safely so the public can know about it...
Speaker(s): Stefania Maurizi with Ewen MacAskillRadical Funerals
Ru Callender has been a self-taught radical undertaker for over 20 years, setting up The Green Funeral Company in 1999 and described in The Good Funeral Guide as one of 'The best undertakers of all...
Speaker(s): Ru CallenderThe invisible infrastructure of climate change
In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. Simon Sharpe argues we must...
Speaker(s): Simon SharpeFear of the Future Panel
With the existential threat of climate change, the cost of living crisis, the long shadow of COVID, war in Ukraine, famine in Ethiopia (again), and the collapse of political truth-telling - it's no...
Speaker(s): Sophie Howe, Melanie Nazareth, Jyothi Cross, Becky HallMad World
Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of...
Speaker(s): Micha Frazer-CarrollPalestine: the compass of injustice and dignity
On being a Palestinian: living in Palestine and in the diaspora. Engaging questions of faith, liberation and oppression for a silenced, oppressed, and struggling community, torn apart by apartheid....
Speaker(s): Muna NassarDisability and Justice: Prophets on the Edge
Disabled people have long been seen as objects of the church's ministry, outreach and care. Yet many of us are speaking back with a prophetic call for disability justice, in a world and church that...
Speaker(s): Naomi Lawson Jacobs & Emily RichardsonIn the beginning, God made bisexuals
Mining the memories embedded in his acclaimed memoir, Out of the Woods, Luke Turner explores how forests can help us find new understandings and happiness in our human sexuality. Luke is a writer and...
Speaker(s): Luke Turner