What Will Religion Become?
What are the prospects for religion in tomorrow's world? What internal problems must religions solve? What external problems must they engage? How can Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenWhat Kind of Church is Emerging (And what is happening to the one we had)?
Graham Cray's role as leader of Fresh Expressions has given him a national and international view of some of the developments in the emerging church. What has changed? What should not change? Is a...
Faith Based Criminal Justice Interventions
An insight into the development and delivery of faithbased criminal justice interventions, aimed at educators, practitioners, and other related professionals. Martin Glynn is a criminologist with...
Abolitionist Conversations: Can technology and social media be a catalyst for real social change
Two of the foremost leaders in their fields, the professor David Batstone and Erik Lammerding, come together for a creative discussion that will explore innovative ways in which technology, social...
Dreams of home
Mia will explore ideas of home – particularly the idealised vision people have of home, origins and family versus the reality – illustrated with short readings from her work. She'll look at the...
An evening with Adrian Plass
Adrian Plass is displeased with flippancy. Just as well, some would say. For more than 25 years his benevolently subversive humour has been clearing away the kind of religious rubbish that...
Children’s & family lineup for GB17
Greenbelt is an inter-generational festival like no other. It's not just that we have lots of children and families onsite. We do. It's that as well as their parents and carers, often their...
8 men and a duck: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island
Travel writer Nick Thorpe blagged his way into a hare-brained 2500-mile Pacific raft odyssey after overhearing a conversation on a Bolivian bus. Today he reads from his recently published book, shows...
Restoring Community in an Individualised World
Social capital - commitment and trust between people has halved in four generations. While the church has been focused on its own decline the social commitments which have held society together have...
Alternative Worship – grit in the church’s shell
Alternative Worship has carved out an innovative and creative space in and on the margins of the church in the UK over the last decade, reimagining the possibilites for worship and church. But what...
Taking Friendship…New Levels
The Level 5 tool, and how you could maybe use it at work, with groups or in personal relationships. Pip Wilson is a youth worker, gamester, author and creator of the ‘Rolling Magazine' at...
Death Row, Guantanamo………
Human rights violations here should end, but can it be closed down if US authorities intend to send detainees back to countries where they face further persecution, torture or even death? Clive...
An Interview with 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. In October 2000, he was awarded an OBE for ‘humanitarian...
Just War – Just Intervention?
Just war, just intervention? From a Cold War to Virtual War, what constitutes a just cause, who authorizes it and what might the impact be? Mike Elliott is a part-time prison chaplain and...
Gut Level Religion
Beyond church, Christianity and God in the darkness and doubt, peace in a dangerous, unpredictable world, unconditional love at the heart of the universe: the healing wisdom of the twenty-third...
Speaker(s): Dave Tomlinson