Exclusivity & hope: a view from Bethlehem
This blog is a long read. You might want to grab a cuppa. It's written by Greenbelt's Creative Director, Paul Northup. I'm writing it from the little town of Bethlehem; the place where, as a...
Helping wihtout hurting: Supporting others in their healing
Palestinian Christians: an endangered species
Jesus – Soul Food
When the Jesus Movement came in the late 1960s Time magazine was announcing "God is Dead." Everything was so secular and materialistic. But a great soul thirst followed and a new generation went...
Apostles and Prophets: Can We Speak For God
Freedom of Interpretation
32nd Greenbelt Communion Service
Sunday morning communion is always an event for the whole Greenbelt family: a bit like Christmas dinner, it's the one time we all come together to celebrate our unity and diversity. And this year...
Temple People
God's people have always encountered God on the road. How come we ended up building temples? Tips on how to use worship spaces to recall us to the pilgrim people we really are. Richard Giles is...
Rediscover Bedtime Prayer
This session explores the joy of teaching children prayer at home, and suggests practical ways in which we can make the experience meaningful. Jane Bartlett is a journalist writing widely in the...
Religious education painful?
Can all ages in your church read and enjoy God's word together? Using the “build, plant, grow” it might just be possible. Harold Hoyle is a Lecturer in the graduate School of Counselling...
Prayer: moving thru solitude
Within us there is a place of loneliness which instinctively we shy away from. Yet when we approach it in prayer it can become a fertile ground and a doorway towards other people. Brother Paolo has...
Women at the well: Muslim & Christian women
A well is a place of encounter. Taking this image as a starting point, Wahida and Dilly reflect on their faith, their sacred texts and their nourishing exchange wi th 'the other'. Dilly Baker works...
Christian Warriors
Should Christians join the military? Are Christian pacifists naively avoiding reality? Symon's faith inspires him to campaign against militarism; Mike's faith motivates his ministry as a Chaplain...
Buy Bye Childhood
Has the commercialisation of childhood won? To advertisers children are anything from small, absorbent consumer capitalists, to fulcrums of parent pester-power, and receptacles of prematurely adult...
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 Tuama