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Rhythm of the Saints

Exploring the traditional cycle of the Church year, from Advent to Lent, Easter to Ordinary Time, Maggi asks what contemporary relevance it has for emerging spirituality. Maggi Dawn is a former...

Dirty Theology

Jesus is held up as purely divine, but enraged his contemporaries with his radical attitudes to dirt. What can we learn from this dirty theology he practised, and where are the Tricksters practising...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin

The greatest environmentalists in history

What on earth has heaven got to do with earth? John sets out why we need another. Apostles Creed, and why creationism misses the point. John Smith is the founding director of Concern Australia and...

How do you spell hell?

Dante's Vision of Hell has more mainstages than Greenbelt, and yet, at the pit of it all, there is an image of Luficer frozen in a lake of his own tears. This talk will use poetry, story and...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

The Secret Life Of Human Beings

As human beings we soon realise that we are not one, but many. How do we live with the different parts within us: the judgement, lust, rage, and depression as well as the joy, passion and empathy?...
Speaker(s): Mark Yaconelli

Pirates of the Charism

Admitting that there are strangenesses in myself, in God and in other people, how can we practically work out better ways of becoming, as one theologian put it, “the kinds of selves who live in...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin

One and Other

From noisy neighbours to nervous political coalitions, fears about immigration, racism, fundamentalism and international terrorism – our fear of engaging “the other” is at the heart of so many...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin

Congregational Monasticism

Karen Ward is the urban abbess of Church of the Apostles, Seattle, which meets in the Fremont Abbey, an arts and community abbey for the Fremont neighbourhood of Seattle. An exploration of how new...

A poetic theology of the human

Using poetry and song that celebrate the ordinary things of our days, this event tells stories of pain, stories of hope and songs of lament and life. Pádraig Ó Tuama is the unofficial poet of...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

A theology of the human

Using an Ignatian approach to the Gospel, Pádraig looks at how Jesus interacted with people of difference, and considers current applications of this, with rising stereotypes regarding religious...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

We are strange: God is stranger

Bookshops are full of argument and counter-argument between atheists and Christians, but what could theology actually learn from a ‘new physics' that has given us parallel universes, multiple...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin

A plea for Christian piracy

They make corporations' blood boil, and children's pulses race: what is it about pirates that remains perennially fascinating, and what possibly could our faith learn from Somalian bandits, 17th...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin

Can Obama pull off a two-state solution?

Many peace activists in Palestine/Israel believe that the two-state solution is gone, buried under the massive Israeli settlement blocs. Obama's last-ditch effort seems the last chance. What...
Speaker(s): Jeff Halper

Changing something so that everything remains the same

The church is awash with expressions of faith that appear to challenge church life. But what if these ‘new forms' are actually ensuring that nothing really changes? Peter explores the possibility...

Comedy in the Bible

The Bible is not generally considered a funny book. In fact, much comedy has been derived from its seriousness. And yet the Bible contains Whitehall farces, knock-about slapstick, wordplay, and...
Speaker(s): James Cary