The Word Made Flesh
Greenbelt has never questioned the vitality of God's Word BUT it has always provoked questions of how and where it comes alive. Is it a book to get our thoughts straight about God and salvation or...
Gospel According to Beatles
Forty years after the final concert of the Fab Four (August 29 1966) author Steve Turner examines their cultural impact and spiritual legacy. Based on the just-released book. Steve Turner began his...
Big Beasts and Little Prophets
On the margins of empires and markets, little Jesus communities have long practised radical interdependence and hospitality. New and ancient stories of folks becoming the church they dream of. Shane...
Holy Mischief
Prophetic stunts and theological pranks -- imagining ways of interrupting the destructive patterns of our world with ways that protest-ify something better. Circus performers welcome! Shane...
Loving the Hell out of People
The gates of hell cannot prevail. Shane will share about the triumph of love and scandalous grace amid war zones and ghettoes. Shane Claiborne is a 28-year old 'extremist for love' with homemade...
Close Encounters
With people traffic as the human rights crisis of the 21st Century, this seminar explores its magnitude and some responses in the ‘protest 4' a more just world. Si Johnston used to be a Baptist...
The Da Vinci Code Seminar
Why has this book so appealed to so many, and how might Christians engage with it creatively? Steve Hollinghurst works as a researcher for the Church Army, exploring how the church can communicate...
Mind the Gap1 – Eyes Forward
Last year's MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaign delivered – at least in part. But poverty is most definitely not history for millions today. Why not, and who got lost between the gaps? Rudo Kwaramba is...
Eco-Silence: Modern Hermit?
Renowned author Sara Maitland has been building her own hermitage and shares her explorations into the solitary life in the contemporary world. Sara Maitland had a very noisy family upbringing and,...
Changing gender, God and disc.
Sarah talks about gender, gender changes and her experiences on the sharp end of tabloid intrusion. Sarah Jones was ordained Deacon in the Church of England in July 2004. In January 2005 she hit the...
The Fidelity of Betrayal: What
What if one of the core elements of Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? Employing the insights of apophatic theology...
You’re history:How people make
How have people secured sustainable social change? And what effect does the Christian outlook have on our view of history? Michelle Brown is currently Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the...
Muslims & Islam in the Media
Covering the treatment of contemporary issues related to Islam, this talk will look at (mis)representation, and the dangers this could present to society by reinforcing national identity on the one...
God on our side
How do we know when the Church is being either prophetic or just blindly resistant to the Spirit? How do we judge whether 'conservatism' or 'liberalism' is more orthodox' or 'biblical'? A look at...
Like a Virgin? Mary in the 21c
Who is Mary? Ancient archetype or contemporary role-model? Did she have body odour? Ever shout at the baby Jesus at 4 am? A sequence of poems exploring some of the meanings Mary might have for...
Speaker(s): Nicola Slee