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Sisters Are Doing It For… Everyone

Pussy Riot in residence Hang out with the bravest feminists on the planet - Pussy Riot. Putting their bodies on the line in Putin's patriarchal Russia, these women know no fear. At least they act...
Speaker(s): Pussy Riot in residence

Jews And Muslims Taking The Peace

After being involved in back-channel peace talks with Bosnians, Iraquis, Kosovans, Iranians and Sudanese, Rabbi Gluck turns his attention to the situation in his own backyard here in the U.K., to...
Speaker(s): Rabbi Herschel Gluck

Things My Dog Has Taught Me – About Being a Better Human

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg's dog Mitzpah regularly ensures that he has time for long walks. The relationship has become indispensable to the spiritual wellbeing of both their lives. These emotional...
Speaker(s): Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

Rivers Of Blood. 50 Years On.

In 2018 the Windrush scandal followed the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech. This talk examines the corrosive power of...
Speaker(s): Anthony Reddie

Meet the Pussy Riot Collective

We welcome the members of the Pussy Riot collective who will be in residence with us across the weekend. Martin Wroe asks the questions as we start to get to know them, what makes them tick and the...
Speaker(s): Pussy Riot in residence

Riot Days, the book

Riot Days is feminist dissident Maria Alyokhina's punk record of history, a dreamlike and visceral counter to the patriarchy and abuse of power in Putin's Russia. One of the founders of the Pussy...
Speaker(s): Pussy Riot in residence

Borders and Belonging

Brexit has resurfaced questions of British-Irish relations, particularly around the border between the two Irish jurisdictions. Taking the extraordinary text of Ruth from the Hebrew Bible, Pádraig...

Imagination, the Bible and the Church – why we need it now more than ever.

The church, and indeed the world, is in desperate need of a renewed imagination - and not just to help us read the Bible well. Paula explores how imagination can lift words off the page and bring...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

Reclaiming Phoebe: Historical imagination and the world of Paul

Paula talks about the process of writing her most recent book about Phoebe, an unsung deacon of the early Christian church. Come and hear where the idea for the book came from, what Paula struggled...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

The Culture of God

For centuries, Christians have turned their faith into a Western phenomenon, and this has distorted the message of Christ. Syrian-born Nadim Nassar seeks to reveal the true face of the Eastern Jesus...
Speaker(s): Nadim Nassar

Education for the Future

Steve Chalke, Jill Rowe and Emma Johnson Imagine education being at the heart of community; imagine schools being places of hope; imagine students thriving spiritually, emotionally, physically,...
Speaker(s): Steve Chalke, Jill Rowe

Education: A Word in your Ear

Steve Chalke interviews Sir David Carter, Schools Commissioner for England, about what matters most in education and his vision for the future. Steve Chalke MBE, founder of the Oasis Charitable...
Speaker(s): Steve Chalke

Writing Songs From Scripture: An Imaginative, Spiritual Practice

What if we approached our sacred scriptures not as rulebooks but rather as imaginative wellsprings of creative potential? A dialogue with Matthew David Morris, the host of the Lectio Musica podcast,...
Speaker(s): Matthew David Morris

A Festival Life: Michael Eavis in conversation

Greenbelt may be 45 years old, but it's a minnow beside Glastonbury. So, we're delighted to welcome the founder of that Festival, dairy farmer Michael Eavis to Greenbelt this year. Having decided...
Speaker(s): Michael Eavis

We have to learn the village to save the village

The Internet is bringing us together, while drowning us in data and algorithms. The control of information and the fight for digital autonomy is critical if we are to save our futures from the new...
Speaker(s): Lauri Love