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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
Adrian Plass
Returning to Greenbelt after an inconceivable amount of time (we believe it's since 1994!), the writer and speaker Adrian Plass is certain t
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.
Aimie Littler
Aimie Littler directs 'The Truth Isn't Sexy' Campaign against sex trafficking. She has a background in Cultural Studies, acting and design.
Al McCollum
Anglican Minister in six parishes in the wilds of rural Cambridgeshire. Struggling writer, still determined to get the elusive book publish
Alan McBride
Alan McBride lost his wife Sharon, and father-in-law Desmond in a bomb attack on Belfast’s Shankill Road. For the past six years he has a be
Alasdair Roxburgh
Alasdair is Christian Aid’s Economic Justice campaigns officer having previously worked for Health Poverty Action and for Christian Aid in
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: Pe
Alastair McKay
Alastair McKay is the director of Bridge Builders at the London Mennonite Centre. It offers training, mediation and consultancy services for
Alastair Murray
Alastair Murray works as Deputy Director of Housing Justice, the national voice of Christian action on housing and homelessness. Before
Alison Brumfitt
Alison Brumfitt is currently delivering environmentally friendly, fully digestible biodegradable, recyclable, perfectly portable performance
Alison Gelder
Alison Gelder became the second Chief Executive of Housing Justice (formerly the Catholic Housing Aid Society) in August 2006. After un
Alison Hogger Gadsby
I grew up in the Midlands, and via English Literature at University in Wales and dabbling in writing, I somehow fell into Mental Health Nurs
Alistair Carmichael
Alistair Carmichael is MP for Shetland and Orkney. Representing these 31 islands means a lot of travelling and talking to small groups of pe
Alistair Duncan
Alistair Duncan is a co-ordinator of the garden, a collective from Brighton who curate art spaces and work to create a discourse beyond thei
Alister McGrath
Alister McGrath is a Christian theologian, with a DPhil in molecular biophysics, as well as an earned Doctor of Divinity degree from Ox
Allan Boesak
Dr Allan Boesak has been called ‘the father of contextual theology’ in South Africa, and has therefore played a huge role in shaping a c
Amy Sackville
Amy Sackville is a British writer whose debut novel The Still Point was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and nominated for t
Andrew Bradstock
is the URC's Secretary for Church and Society and seeks to make the Church's voice heard on national and international issues. He has lectur
Andrew Graystone
Andrew Graystone is the Director of the Church and Media Network and a prolfic producer, writer and presenter for BBC Religion and BBC Radio
Andrew Lancel
Actor Andrew Lancel is currently staring as bad boy Frank Foster in Coronation Street after spending seven years as DI Manson in The Bill. J
Andrew Motion
A prolific writer, Andrew motion was appointed as Poet Laureate in May 1999 and has received a host of awards, including the Whitbread Prize
Andrew Nugent
Former trial lawyer Andrew Nugent was called to the bar before he was called to the monastery and has travelled from being novice-master to
Andrew Pendleton
Andrew Pendleton is journalist by profession and is currently working for Christian Aid as its senior policy officer on climate change and s
Andrew Philip
Andrew Philip is part of a significant group of younger Scottish poets gaining recognition throughout and beyond the UK. He has published tw
Andrew Rumsey
Andrew Rumsey is Vicar of Gipsy Hill in South London. A seasoned Greenbelt speaker and performer, his latest book Strangely Warmed (publish
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. Hi
Andy Huntingdon
Andy Huntington is a sound geezer and interactive designer currently completing his second year of an MA in Interaction Design at the Royal
Andy Mellen
Andy Mellen is an organic smallholder and lives in Suffolk. He has spent 6 years in Africa working on sustainable development projects.
Andy Thornton
Andy Thornton first played at Greenbelt in 1986 with Rattling the Cage, then with Big Sur. Since then he’s made a few albums in his own na
Angel Luis Rivera-Agosto
Angel Luis Rivera-Agosto is a lawyer and pastors a church in Puerto Rico and is part of the mission personnel of the Common Board of Global
Angela Reith
Angela Reith – Sound Recordist/Offline Editor – Etched by Silence (a pilgrim engages with the poems and questions of R S Thomas).
Angela Sarkis
Angela was appointed to the position of YMCA National Secretary, from 1 August 2006. Prior to this she worked as an independent Management c
Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick OBE founded The Body Shop in 1976. With a strong sense of moral outrage, first awakened when reading about the Holocaust aged
Ann Morisy
Ann is a freelance community theologian and lecturer. She directed the Commission that wrote the report 'Faithful Cities' and has written o
Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is the part-time campaigns director for Operation Noah, the climate change campaign based at Churches Together in Britain and I
Anna Minton
Anna Minton is a writer and journalist, contributing regularly to The Guardian. Her current project looks at the privatisation of the public
Annie Porthouse
Annie Porthouse: author of Scripture Union's best-selling young adult novel - 'Dear Bob', a Bridget-Jones style exploration into 'Jude Sin
Anthony Reddie
Anthony G. Reddie is a Research Fellow in Black Theology at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. He
Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson was born in 1964. He has published three collections of poetry: How Far From Here Is Home? (Stride, 1996), Nowhere Better Tha
Antony Dunn
Antony Dunn has published two collections of poems and is working towards the completion of a third. His writing for the stage includes tw
Barbara Glasson
Barbara Glasson is a Methodist Minister working at Touchstone, an interfaith community project in the Centre of Bradford. She is the founder
Baroness Elizabeth Berridge
Baroness Berridge has lived in Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago and pioneered relationships between leaders within the Conservative Party and t
Barry and Margaret Mizen
Margaret and Barry Mizen’s son, Jimmy was killed in a violent incident in Lee, South London in May 2008.  Since then they have tirelessly
Becky Garrison
Becky Garrison is Senior Contributing Editor for The Wittenburg Door and author of Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church, as well as the f
Ben Edson
Ben Edson works in the Diocese of Manchester establishing and encouraging pioneering ministries. He is also part of the worship programming
Ben Whitehouse
Ben Whitehouse (Greenbelt's literature coordinator) lives in Telford, Shropshire with a rather large, rather eclectic collection of books th
Betty Spackman
Betty Spackman is a multi-media installation artist and painter from Canada working with ideas of memory and archive through story and cultu
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 'rac
Bill Drummond
In 1987, Bill Drummond's Justified Ancients of Mumu project caused a great deal of outrage and legal wrangling due to the inclusion of snipp
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg has been at the forefront of politically-engaged rock, roots and folk music since the early '80s, with his ongoing activism goin
Billy Childish
Artist, author, poet, songwriter, photographer, filmmaker... It's fair to say that Billy Childish is a multi-talented guy. A cult figure in
Bishop Benjamin Ojwang
Bishop Benjamin Ojwang was enthroned as the second Bishop of Kitgum in northern Uganda last year.
Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng
Bishop Nelson was ordained in 1977 and consecrated Bishop of Northern Uganda Diocese in 1998. As a founding member of the Acholi Religious
Bishop Peter Selby
Peter Selby received his theological education during the period of the Civil Rights movement in the mid-nineteen-sixties, and after that se
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
Bob & Annette Holman
Bob & Annette Holman work with Frontier Youth Trust exploring issues relating to the kingdom and social justice. Together they offer a seri
Bob Holman
Bob Holman survived the London blitz and then failed the eleven plus. Got to university and the new welfare state meant he studied for free.
Bobby Baker
Bobby Baker is a woman, and an artist,and lives in London, England. In her career of 35 odd years to date she has, amongst other things, dan
Book Club
It's the return of the Greenbelt book club! A chance to discuss interesting books with other passionate souls... Jackie Kay - Wish I Was H
Brian Draper
Brian Draper is a former editor of Third Way Magazine and lecturer in culture at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. H
Brian Holmes
Brian Holmes co-owns new media publisher Active Media Publishing, which publishes the UK’s leading technology magazine eChurch Active.
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
Brother Paolo
Paolo has been a member of the Taize Community in France for almost 30 years. The community earns its own living and his job is in the potte
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 d
Bruce Harris
Bruce Harris is an internationally respected children’s rights advocate and Executive Director of Casa Alianza, serving the homeless young
Bruce Kent
Bruce Kent is a life-long peace campaigner, former Catholic parish priest and university chaplain. He has now retired from the Priesthood, b
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 Afri
Candia Crosfield
Candia currently works for Peace Child International on behalf of Quaker Peace and Social Witness, as part of their one-year Peaceworker sch
Carolyn Hayman
Throughout a varied career in government, business and the not for profit sector, Carolyn Hayman’s focus has been on startups and innovation
Cecil Rowe
Cecil Rowe – Cameraman and Director – Etched by Silence (a pilgrim engages with the poems and questions of R S Thomas).Cecil Rowe acknow
Charlie Irvine
Charlie Irvine is a freelance mediator, helping people resolve conflict in families, the workplace, education and business. He is particu
Ched Myers
Ched Myers is an activist theologian who has worked in social change movements for three decades. With a degree in New Testament Studies,
Chris Cole
Chris Cole has been involved in peace campaigning for more than 25 years. Currently he coordinates Fig Tree, a new initiative to eng
Chris Doran
Ever since A Blueprint for Survival was published in 1972, Chris Doran has been championing sustainable living. Influenced also by Schumache
Chris Doyle
Chris is the Director of Caabu.He has worked with the Council since 1993 after graduating with a first class honours degree in Arabic and Is
Chris Howson
Revd Chris Howson is the City Centre Mission Priest for Bradford, where he has lived and worked for 21 years. He is a lively advocate for di
Chris Powell
Chris Powell is a Group Analyst and Head of Community Psychological Therapies at The Retreat York, a Quaker run psychiatric hospital, and ho
Chris Sunderland
Chris Sunderland has been, at various times, a research biochemist, working in an Oxford laboratory at the cutting edge of biotechnology and
Chris Wills
Chris Wills is a quiz show genius, with wins on Countdown (series champion 2002), The Weakest Link and A Question of Genius. Chris Wills
Christina Baxter
Christina Baxter is Principal of St John’s Theological College, Nottingham where she also teaches systematic and historical theology. Sh
Christina Rees
Christina Rees is a writer, broadcaster, executive coach and public speaker. She is one of Radio 4’s Thinkers for the Day, a member of the
Christopher Booker
Over the past 40 years Christopher Booker has established a reputation as one of Britain's most original writers and journalists. The foundi
Christopher Dingle
Christopher Dingle lectures at Birmingham Conservatoire and is the author/editor of several books on the French composer Olivier Messiaen, n
Ciaron O’Reilly
Ciaron O’Reilly is part of radical pacifist Catholic Worker Movement and active in the Ploughshares organisation, which deactivates milita
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 wo
Clare Short
Clare Short was MP for Birmingham Ladywood 1983-2010. She was Secretary of State for International Development 1997-2003. She resigned
Clare Tickell
Dame Clare Tickell (Chief Executive of Action for Children), previously worked as Chief Executive for Stonham Housing Association as well as
Claudia May
Dr May is currently a Research Fellow in Implicit Religion and Contemporary Spiritualities at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theolog
Clive Stafford-Smith
Clive Stafford Smith has worked on behalf of defendants facing the death penalty in the southern United States for the last 25 years. He is
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 S
Conrad Gempf
Conrad Gempf is a lecturer in New Testament at London School of Theology. He is the author of Mealtime Habits of the Messiah and Jesus Ask
Daleep Mukarji
Daleep Mukarji is the Director of Christian Aid. Previously, he was Executive Secretary for Health, Community and Justice at the World Counc
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 Bookless
Dave Bookless is a former barman and vicar, and also founder and National Director of A Rocha UK - part of a Christian environmental movemen
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 c
David Batstone
It is a rare set of skills that enable David Batstone to be active as a journalist, university professor, social activist and business entre
David Dark
David Dark has something funny and interesting to say about all kinds of things. He brings his troubled wits to bear on Flannery O'Connor,
David F. Ford
David F. Ford is Irish and was educated in Trinity College Dublin, Cambridge, Yale and Tubingen universities. He is now Regius Professor of
David Haslam
Revd David Haslam MBE, founder of the Dalit Solidarity Network UK and former Co-Convenor of the International Solidarity Network.Â
David Lammy MP
David Lammy MP is Government Minister for Higher Education, with a passion for getting people to continue in post-18 education. One of five
David Loyn
BBC foreign correspondent David Loyn has been reporting from disasters and conflicts for more than thirty years. His book Frontline has the
David Nwokedi
David Nwokedi was born in Nigeria and raised in Newhaven and Brighton. He worked in social services in London for ten years before moving
David Pickering
David Pickering studied Environmental Science prior to training for the ministry. Since 1999 he has developed and co-ordinated ‘Eco-Congre
David Thomson
David Thomson is Archdeacon of Carlisle, looking after churches and ministers in a thousand square miles of the most beautiful countryside i
David Wilkinson
David Wilkinson is Wesley Research Lecturer in Theology and Science at the University of Durham. He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomica
Davis Bunn
Davis Bunn is writer in residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford and has had more than sixteen national bestsellers. His books have so
Dawn Lonsdale
Dawn Lonsdale has been Chief Officer of Unlock since 2004, and administrator for the Christian Coalition for Urban Mission since 2010. Previ
Deborah Fielding
Since finishing her Creative Writing: Prose MA at UEA, Deborah Fielding has been writing short stories and flash fiction. Deborah is fascina
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 Tho
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-
Dilly Baker
Dilly works in a developmental role for Scargill, an ecumenical centre in the Yorkshire Dales that has recently been delivering a groundbrea
Dilwar Hussain
Dilwar Hussain is Head of the Policy Research Centre, based at the Islamic Foundation. His research interests include Islam in the modern wo
Dionne Gravesande
Dionne Gravesande is Christian Aid’s Head of Churches & Young Peoples Relationships. Christian Aid was set up in 1945 to unite the
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
Don Letts
Don Letts’ reputation has been firmly established in both the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late 70's throug
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 Nel
Doug Gay
Doug Gay is a long term Greenbelter who teaches Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow. His current research focuses on 'emerging c
Douglas Alexander MP
Douglas Alexander is the UK's Secretary of State for International Development. Previously Secretary of State for Transport and Secretary of
Dr Bex L
Dr Bex Lewis is Blended Learning Project Manager for the BigBible Project/Lecturer in History & Media Studies, with a background in the
Dr. Hany El-Banna
Dr Hany El Banna is co-founder and President of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), an international relief and development organisation which a
Duncan Morrow
Duncan Morrow is Chief Executive of the N.I. Community Relations Council, instrumental in drawing-up the ‘Shared Future’ document, as pa
Ed Cox
Ed Cox is Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research North thinktank and chair of the Inspire Church and Community Centre in inner
Ed Newell
Ed Newell is Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral and Director of St Paul’s Institute. He experienced in experimental liturgy using t
El Gruer
El Gruer is a poet who awakens out with time. From the Scottish Highlands, El is the ordinary ‘girl- next- door’ whose extra-ordinary wa
Eliacin Rosario-Cruz
Born in Puerto Rico moved to the Pacific Northwest/ husband and father/ rabble rouser/ organizer/ communitarian/ cultivator/ provocatuer/ gr
Elias Chacour
The Rev Dr Elias Chacour is affectionately known as ‘Abuna’ and is President of Mar Elias Educational Institutions in Ibillin, Galilee,
Elizabeth Bayliss
Elizabeth Bayliss is director of Social Action for Health, a community health development charity. She has lived and worked in inner London
Elizabeth Hunter
Elizabeth is the Director of Theos, the public theology think tank which undertakes research and provides comment on the role of faith in pu
Elizabeth Joy
In India Elizabeth has worked for the Bible Society of India, the Christian Institute for the Study of Society and Religion and in 2000 was
Ellen Armstrong
is Assistant Project Manager of Trust, a Christian project supporting women involved in prostitution in South London. She is also one of the
Enid Gordon
Enid Gordon, peace activist since 1965, Methodist Minister in Gateshead, lived in Bethlehem from November 2008 to February 2009. Whilst the
Esther Baker
Esther Baker is the Artistic Director of Synergy Theatre Project and has directed many plays in prisons and theatres. Recent work includes T
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
Ewan King
At Cambridge Ewan struggled to reconcile Eliot and Wittgenstein with theology of rural chapel childhood. Then came a seven-year odyssey in M
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an architect based in Tel Aviv and London. He has conducted research on behalf of the human rights organization B'tselem o