Is a simple country parson sustainable?
What kind of church is sustainable in rural Britain? Everybody talks about faith in the city but what's happening to faith in the country? Is it the preserve of the elderly and nostalgic or is...
Motherhood and God
A woman's experience of giving birth is the most privileged human insight into the creative power of God. But millions of women over the world today suffer poor medical care and after this profound...
Speaker(s): Margaret HebblethwaiteDo Angels have wings?… and Other Impossible Questions
Bookshops have ranks of books on angels and their influence, but when was the last time you heard Christians talking about them? Aren't angels a central part of Christian faith? So what does the...
The Rich get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Billy Bragg, in conversation about his work with his Jail Guitar Doors charity – putting guitars into prisons – and about arts, rehabilitation and criminal justice more generally. Billy Bragg...
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...
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...
God Bless America? a US / UK dialogue
How America looks to the real Vicar of Dibley after four years of living in Washington, DC - especially after September 11. Get in on the household conversation between an Anglican priest and an...
Theologian as Poet: Poet as Theologian
Brian explores, and reads from, some poems by C.S.Lewis and Wendell Berry. Brian McLaren has been active in networking church planters and pastors since the mid 1980s. His first book, The Church on...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenThe Six Dimensional Jesus
The Evangelical Jesus is just one take, governed by one theology. But how have other Christian traditions seen Jesus? And might these other - Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anabaptist, Liberal,...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenConspiracy of Silence
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...
What Race? – 1
From a diversity of ethnic groups there is one race - The Human Race. A two part seminar exploring the complex issues around race, discrimination and diversity. Bev Thomas has worked for the last 20...
Slavery today join the fight for freedom
Slavery has not gone away. Contemporary forms affect at least 12.3 million men, women and children in the 21st century. What can the campaign against the Atlantic slave trade teach us as we seek to...
An Interview with Sister Frances Dominica (hosted by Jonathan Mayo)
The women and men of the old orders walked with God into some of the places we never wanted to experience or imagine. Deserts. War . zones. Slums. Sister Francis has continued this tradition by...
Time to boycott Israeli goods?
Can the pound in your pocket deliver a just peace for the Holy Land? From apartheid South Africa to multinational chocolate companies, boycotts have long focused the world's consumers on injustice....