Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson is a poet, blogger, writing tutor and lecturer. He has published and performed his poetry widely for over twenty years. Anthony has held writing residencies at The Poetry Society,...
The Big Shift
From way back when, Greenbelt has made room to engage with the impacts of Climate Change. In the early 1990s, Midnight Oil thundered through a set on the mainstage, with Peter Garrett, their lead...
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...
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 HebblethwaiteA Dream of Utopia in Soviet Karelia
Thousands of North American Finns, gripped by “Karelian Fever”, moved to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to help build a socialist utopia. What happens when utopian dreams go sour? Nancy's search...
HIV/AIDS: take your bed and go to your home
Romy was a co-founder of the Muslim-Christian Agency for Rural Development based in Mindanao, Philippines. It became a partner of Christian Aid in 1979. In 1991 he went to Edinburgh University as a...
Sustainable development and the forgotten commandment
Greenbelt 2002 coincides with the beginning of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, the 10-years after 'follow up' to the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. But why is the environment...
The 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...
God’s Passion for People
A vision of God's passion for human beings and an exploration of it's implications for twentyfirst Century Christians. Fran has been Chief Executive of the Shaftesbury Society since 1995. She is...
White Like Me
What the church can learn from critical white studies How unmasking 'whiteness' can provide the space for a more inclusive and diverse Church. Dr Robert Beckford is the director of the centre for...
The Death of Spin
Charting the rise and fall of the spin culture. George Pitcher was formerly industrial editor of The Observer, and voted National Newspaper Journalist of the Year in 1991. Since then, he has worked...
The Green Eyed Church
* why Christians should be concerned about environmental issues * how we can act to green our church's life and mission * stories from churches * information and resources David Pickering studied...
Church in the Naughties
Work, Worship and the Sabbath in a 24/7 culture. There is currently much discussion of the shape and organisation of the Church - postevangelical, alternative, emerging, liquid, virtual... What shape...
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...
MPH-A Stroll Through The Bible
Make Poverty History is utopian. But what's wrong with being captivated by a dream? Romy Tiongco was a Christian Aid partner in the Philippines from 1979 to 1989. After teaching at New College,...