Soil, Soul, Society
Human aspirations have often been expressed in trinities. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Mind, Body and Spirit. Now, Soil, Soul, Society is a new trinity, inspiring us...
Speaker(s): Satish KumarDoes The Way We Talk About Religious Persecution Matter?
Christians in places like Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria are reporting a rise in religious persecution, in the wider context of Islamic extremism and anti-Islamic attacks in Europe. How can the church...
Speaker(s): Grace Pengelly“The Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming!
No religion causes greater consternation and provokes more questions than Islam. There's so much we don't “get” about Islam and there's a lot we don't know about its roots and impact....
Speaker(s): Abdul-Rehman MalikFaithfully Feminist: Why we stay
It is a common question asked of women who claim a feminist identity, membership in a particular religious tradition, and practise their faith in spite of gendered challenges. Hear the stories of...
Speaker(s): Julie Siddiqi, Catriona RobertsonAfter Bowie and Prince
With the untimely deaths of Prince and David Bowie, is the age of rock stars as avatars of our better selves, pointing to a world of possibility all over? Is all we're left with nostalgia and...
Speaker(s): Steve LawsonLemn Sissay In conversation
Come and hear poet Lemn Sissay in conversation with Martin Wroe on his life as a child in care and now as Chancellor of Manchester University and one of the nation's best-loved poets. His sense of...
Speaker(s): Lemn SissayGungor In Conversation
Michael and Lisa Gungor, part of the driving force behind the progressive US Liturgists movement and wonderful music artists, get to share about their life and work and motivations with Martyn...
Speaker(s): Gungor, Martyn JosephArriving + Departing Greenbelt 2017
We know you're getting excited about Greenbelt. We guess you're probably planning and packing ?, making lists and devising menus ?, so we've a few bits of information to help you get onto site...
Panel on Faith & Science
Skipping past the hackneyed scienceversus- faith debates, this panel conversation acknowledges science as God's gift and aims instead to focus on how we as communities, individuals and churches can...
Speaker(s): Tom McLeish, Abdul-Rehman Malik, Winchester UniversityCommunion
Inspired by Pope Francis' ‘Laudato si' our Greenbelt Communion Service this year is conceived and shaped by Br Sam and the Franciscan community at Hilfield Friary in Dorset. They will be joined...
Body Shock
With so much focus on photoshopped body images, is it any wonder that we don't think we make the grade? How can we grow a healthy, relaxed attitude to the way we look as part of who we are?
Speaker(s): Judy Reith, Siobhan O'Loughlin, Joanna Jepson, Steve ChalkeSTAYING ALIVE: A Conversation
Building on sessions that we've hosted at the festival over the past few years with artists like Bobby Baker and Jo Enright, hear author Matt Haig and disability rights advocate Katharine...
Speaker(s): Matt Haig, Katharine Welby-RobertsThe Real Benefits Street / The Truth about Sanctions
How did the government's ‘benefit sanctions' policy end up leading to hunger, destitution and desperation? Why are people on benefits being stigmatised? Joining Angela Neville, author of Can...
Speaker(s): Angela Neville, Niall CooperForgive us our debts?
With ever-increasing indebtedness, is it time to rethink lending and borrowing altogether? Are there other ways to make the money go round? With Anastasia French (Debt Trap, The Children's...
Speaker(s): David Barclay, Kit BeazleyTwitter Vicars and the Sacrament of Social Media
Are you wearing your clerical collar online? How can you be a vicar on Twitter? Can you be a Facebook Father or a Snapchat Sister? Three well known social media lovers and working priests on managing...
Speaker(s): Giles Fraser, Kate Bottley, Rev. Richard Coles