Greenbelt 2017: A few of our favourites things.
Just as we head into Easter weekend, we thought we'd share a few festival favourites who will be gracing the bill this summer for our 44th festival, The Common Good. It's good to have a degree of...
An Altar in the World: worship & spirituality at Greenbelt 2017
As we gather at Boughton House for our fourth Greenbelt there and our 44th festival overall, we look forward to what Corrymeela leader and poet Pádraig Ó Tuama describes as his "annual sacrament of...
This House Believes The 2015 Election Will Make No Significant Difference To The Future of Britain
Motion: This house believes the 2015 Election will make no significant difference to the future of Britain. For: Martin Newell (Catholic Worker Network) and Louise Donkin (SPEAK) Against: Gavin...
Speaker(s): Louise Donkin, Andy Flannagan1914 And All That
The First World War is commonly regarded as a carnage leading to a conclusion, both of which should never have happened. Its centenary is an opportunity to reflect on how people of faith deal with...
Speaker(s): John BellThe Business of Salvation: Building holistic communities in the 21st Century
Steve is at Greenbelt to provoke us on the themes of the church and enterprise, the welfare state, inclusion, government, community, the bible and the shape of the future. Steve Chalke MBE founded...
Speaker(s): Steve ChalkeCombatants for Peace (CfP) UK tour 2013
Hosted by Encounters, in partnership with the Amos Trust Representatives of Combatants for Peace, Palestinian and Israeli, will share their personal stories of transformation from violence to...
Greenbelt 2011 Communion Service
Living under canvas for a weekend reminds us we are all travelling on a journey of faith, dreaming of our home with God, seeking a place of shelter and security. In bread and wine, we recognise and...
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...
Globalisation post September 11th
The author of Grace and Mortgage will speak about the events of September 11th 2001 have affected his view of the nature of globalisation and the prospects for humanising a world driven by money...
The Umpteenth September 11th
What was an attack on imperial America's virginity is not an isolated event in terms of global experience. Here John Bell reflects biblically and sociologically on the day that did not change the...
Speaker(s): John BellThe triumph of the human spirit over brutality – 15 years on Robin Island with nelson Mandela
15 years on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela - the story of South African activist Eddie Daniels. Eddie Daniels was born into a poor, loving, loyal family in a township in Cape Town, S.Africa in...
10 More Things They Never Told Me About Jesus
It's 10 years since John Bell discovered the 1st ten. Since then he has been reading the Gospel a verse a day, and discovering some surprising things about Jesus. John Bell is a Church of Scotland...
Speaker(s): John BellMedieval mystical spirituality and the 21st century church
Exploring the relevance that medieval writers such as Julian of Norwich and medieval texts such as The Cloud of Unknowing have for the modern church. What can they teach us about the nature of God...
A Global God: will 9/11 change the world?
Religious communities must take on the prophetic role of answering why terrorism exists in the world today. Will September 11 ultimately create more conflict or more understanding between the world's...
Nicaragua since December 23 1973
On December 23, 1972 Managua was destroyed by an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale. Since then, Nicaraguans have seen the ousting of the Somoza family in the 1979 revolution, the Contra...