A Radical Defence of the Human Being
Paul Mason argues for a new virtue ethics based on resistance to machine control. We face a triple threat - an economic system that does not work, evaporating belief in democracy and human rights,...
Speaker(s): Paul MasonRadical Reading: Provocation from Pluto – The Age Of Surveillance
Our lives as workers, consumers and citizens are increasingly monitored by new technologies. Simultaneously, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable. What does...
Speaker(s): Peter BloomThe Frighteners
Grab your crucifixes, pack the silver bullets and join the Sinister Minister Peter Laws on a celebratory romp through society's morbid curiosities. Just why are we fascinated with the dark, spooky...
Speaker(s): Peter LawsThere Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, inequality, fake news – the list of concerns for the Anthropocene seems endless. Mike Berners-Lee explores how the big...
Speaker(s): Mike Berners-LeeThe Joy in Eco Living
Can we have a high quality, fulfilling life and live in harmony with our environment? Based on 25 years' experience, Mukti Mitchell shows how reducing your carbon footprint makes you happier,...
Speaker(s): Mukti MitchellOthello Creative Response
Muneera Pilgrim has collaborated with the English Touring Theatre to create a compelling creative response to Richard Twymans production of Othello. In this performance she explores the relationship...
Speaker(s): Muneera PilgrimJesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Owen Barfield is the Oxford Inkling you haven't heard of. He argued that Jesus' life encapsulated a major shift in the evolution of human consciousness. What does this mean for our view of Jesus...
Speaker(s): Mark VernonStepping Stones to a New Economy
The time for incremental changes and tweaks to the status quo are over. We need a new economic model that works for people and planet. What are the building blocks of this new economic model and how...
Speaker(s): Miatta FahnbullehIn Conversation with Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig has been drawing newspaper cartoons for fifty years. His work explores political folly, human nature, spiritual life, mature innocence and the divine creaturely self. Join him in...
Speaker(s): Michael Leunig, Modern ChurchHow Civil Disobedience Can Change The World
Throughout history, oppressive systems have been brought down when people had the courage to imagine something different and break the rules. Drawing on his experience as an anti-apartheid, climate...
Speaker(s): Kumi NaidooThe Moon: Mother Of Us All
The moon is so familiar that we take it for granted. Yet it orchestrates the tides, dictates the length of a day and the rhythm of the seasons. So let's look at the Moon afresh – to see it not...
Speaker(s): Maggie Aderin-PocockPoet, Prophet, Protestor – Daring to Preach in Our Times
That Mark Oakley has three Ps may lull you into a false sense of security. He is on a mission to put the odd back into God and make the sermon an event, stretching the preacher's language, vision...
Speaker(s): Mark OakleyThe Hidden Humour in Holy Scripture
The matter is cloaked in so much secrecy that it would be indecent for the speaker to reveal in advance what might be said. Owners of bendy Bibles with margins covered in green ink notes and triple...
Speaker(s): John BellDo Something for Nothing: The Power of Human Connection
Overwhelmed by the everyday reality and scale of homelessness on the streets of the capital city where he lived and worked, Joshua Coombes, a hairdresser by profession decided to do something simple,...
Speaker(s): Joshua CoombesPop Christianity
In a year when young people have taken the political lead, Jyothi Cross asks how youth culture fits with modern-day Christianity, exploring all things teen, from video games to Vine and back again...
Speaker(s): Jyothi Cross