Radical Funerals
Ru Callender has been a self-taught radical undertaker for over 20 years, setting up The Green Funeral Company in 1999 and described in The Good Funeral Guide as one of 'The best undertakers of all...
Speaker(s): Ru CallenderMad World
Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of...
Speaker(s): Micha Frazer-CarrollPalestine: the compass of injustice and dignity
On being a Palestinian: living in Palestine and in the diaspora. Engaging questions of faith, liberation and oppression for a silenced, oppressed, and struggling community, torn apart by apartheid....
Speaker(s): Muna NassarDisability and Justice: Prophets on the Edge
Disabled people have long been seen as objects of the church's ministry, outreach and care. Yet many of us are speaking back with a prophetic call for disability justice, in a world and church that...
Speaker(s): Naomi Lawson Jacobs & Emily RichardsonIn the beginning, God made bisexuals
Mining the memories embedded in his acclaimed memoir, Out of the Woods, Luke Turner explores how forests can help us find new understandings and happiness in our human sexuality. Luke is a writer and...
Speaker(s): Luke TurnerLiving within the Doughnut: Business and social purpose
Doughnut Economics is being globally adopted by governments and communities. Chaired by Rebecca Harvey (editor of Co-operative News), hear from DEAL'S Enrich Sahan about the latest tool for...
Speaker(s): David AlcockShooting the messenger – is our freedom to protest disappearing?
Disruptive protest has been vital in the struggle to secure justice and social change. As the environmental emergency intensifies and climate protesters are desperately seeking change, the government...
Speaker(s): Melanie Nazareth, Jonathan HerbertScared to Death
What happens as we're dying? What's the best way to support a dying person? Is hospital the best place? Let's look at all the wisdom we've forgotten. Let's be curious about dying. Let's know more,...
Speaker(s): Kathryn MannixAre You Listening?
When we're supporting someone through a difficult time, we may want to 'do something' to help them. Often, the most helpful thing we can offer is deeply attentive listening. Sounds easy? You'd be...
Speaker(s): Kathryn MannixIt’s Not Me… It’s You.
How come so many of us have broken up with church? We take part less and less often. Or not at all. It used to be part of our lives… until it wasn't. What's your story? Why did you call time on the...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose, Dave TomlinsonCharity Begins At Home?
As the UK's finances struggle, cuts to the government's overseas development spending and increasing demand on foodbanks, debt centres and other services in the UK are pitted against one another....
Theology and the cost of living crisis
Jayme and Susie from Sarum College present a fresh and thought-provoking workshop on Sabbath and Jubilee. Prepare to be theologically inspired to think and act differently in the midst of our modern...
Profits vs Prophets? How we make polluters pay
The fossil fuel industry is making millions every day, while people in climate-vulnerable countries pay the bill. How can the prophetic voice of the church challenge the profiteering of the fossil...
Climate Assembly
Join Extinction Rebellion's Jamie Kelsey Fry has he facilitates a closing 'Climate Assembly' in the Hot House, together with three expert 'witnesses' to open the session - Clare Farrell (XR), Roberto...
Speaker(s): Jamie Kelsey Fry, Clare Farrell, Roberto Martinez, GreenpeacePalestinian Rights: an anti-Apartheid campaign
In 2022, joint reports from Amnesty International and Israeli and Palestinian human rights organisations B'Tselem and Al-Haq stated that Israel was pursuing apartheid policies - a view long held by...
Speaker(s): Diala Isid, Amos Trust