We’re Not An Issue, We’re A Gift
A conversation with Tracey Byrne, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Karl Rutledge hosted by Rachel Mann As the church has tied itself in knots over matters of sexuality, the casualties have often been LGBT people...
Speaker(s): Rachel Mann, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Rev. Richard ColesCommunion
With Barbara Brown Taylor The Wild Goose Resource Group lead us in a service that gives thanks for Greenbelt's 40-year journey so far – by taking us on a musical pilgrimage through some of the...
Our Lady of Greenbelt
What does Mary, the mother of Jesus have to do with Greenbelt? Are doctrines such as the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary examples of the Roman Catholic fear of sex and deification of...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaPoetry as a dream of peace
The Corrymeela Community tells a story of a woman who came to its house for refuge. In her luggage she brought a small hatchet. She was ready to believe they were people of peace, but just in case,...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaDreaming Under Fire
The launch of a new story collection from homeless exsoldiers. While researching a novel on faith in the battlefield, Jari Moate collected the stories of troops who returned to the UK to find...
How do you spell hell?
Dante's Vision of Hell has more mainstages than Greenbelt, and yet, at the pit of it all, there is an image of Luficer frozen in a lake of his own tears. This talk will use poetry, story and...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaA poetic theology of the human
Using poetry and song that celebrate the ordinary things of our days, this event tells stories of pain, stories of hope and songs of lament and life. Pádraig Ó Tuama is the unofficial poet of...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaA theology of the human
Using an Ignatian approach to the Gospel, Pádraig looks at how Jesus interacted with people of difference, and considers current applications of this, with rising stereotypes regarding religious...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaPairidaeza: the Old Persian for Paradise
Drawing on her memories of life in Iran, Mimi Khalvati's poems are full of love and longing, lost maternal Edens and paradisal gardens. Her readings will interweave the classical forms of Persian...
The 95: a book worth making possible this Advent
At the start of this Advent season (whatever that word means to you), we wanted to introduce a new book in the making to you. We think it will be a very Greenbelt-y book. Here's the story...
The Lemonade Effect… Read On
It was a full house and one of the most compelling conversations at Greenbelt in years. ‘Forced the audience to confront the idea of white discomfort and move beyond 'not seeing colour' – a...
We Laughed, Cried And Danced To Video-Games
A blog from Andy Robertson, curator of InterACT ... the digital gaming strand at this year's festival ... This year was the first time Greenbelt (or any major Arts festival in the UK) handed over...
Dr Christopher Meredith
Dr Christopher Meredith is Senior Lecturer in Bible and Critical Theory at the University of Winchester. His published work looks at literary dimensions of biblical texts and their impact on...
Brian McLaren
Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for a new kind of Christianity - just, generous,...
Andy Flannagan
Andy is one of three directors of Christians in Politics. He is also the Director of Christians on the Left which exists to be a prophetic voice to left-sided politics and the Church.