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Scars Across Humanity

Every three seconds, a young girl is married without consenting, somewhere across the world to a much older man. Along with female infanticide, domestic abuse, prostitution, rape and honour killings,...
Speaker(s): Elaine Storkey

Julian of Norwich

Probably the first woman to write a book in English, the visionary Julian of Norwich offers us a powerful message about the love of God. An insight into a mind that discovered why God wants us to...
Speaker(s): Sharon Jebb Smith

Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality: happy bedfellows?

Mindfulness helps many to improve self-care. Tim (author of author of Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality – Making Space for God) explores what it offers by way of contribution – and challenge...
Speaker(s): Tim Stead

Beautiful Resistance

What is “beautiful resistance”? Learn what life is like living under occupation in Aida Refugee camp and why Palestinians, particularly the young people of the West Bank, don't have the “luxury...
Speaker(s): Abdelfattah A Abusrour

Who Am I When I Forget Who I Am?

A theological evaluation of dementia, examining the nature of memory with a particular focus on the memory that we hold within our bodies, and offering new possibilities for hope and change even in...
Speaker(s): Professor John Swinton

Doing Theology In the Era of Black Lives Matter

Explore the implications for – and indictments of – mainstream white theology in the wake of the movement for black lives across the USA and other countries. Broderick is a curate in the US...
Speaker(s): Broderick Greer

That Was the Church, That Was

How the Church of England lost the English people. Andrew Brown writes on religion for The Guardian amongst others. His most recent book, Fishing in Utopia, is a memoir about his life in Sweden. It...
Speaker(s): Andrew Brown

How Christian is Europe?

Elizabeth reflects on European religious trends, the aftermath of the referendum and the future for faith in the public square across our continent. Previously with the BBC and the Church and Media...
Speaker(s): Elizabeth Oldfield

Theology As Survival

While some do theology as a form of sport or recreation, others – usually at society's margins – do theology as a form of survival. Join Father Broderick Greer and Canon Mark Oakley as they...
Speaker(s): Mark Oakley, Broderick Greer

Team Judas: what to do with a bad reputation?

Kate Bottley discusses how the way others see us informs our own sense of identity. Kate Bottley is a vicar and chaplain. She appears regularly on TV and radio, most famously with her husband...
Speaker(s): Kate Bottley

Tackling Trade At The Till: How to become a consumer activist.

Ethical on-the-ground strategies for making God more present in your personal economy. Eve Poole is the chair of Faith in Business at Ridley Hall. Her most recent book is Capitalism's Toxic...
Speaker(s): Eve Poole

In the Hottest Year, the Hottest Fight

A report from the front lines of the climate battle around the planet--a look at the rapidly warming earth, and the increasingly urgent efforts of activists to force faster action. Bill McKibben is...
Speaker(s): Bill McKibben

Inter Act: Can Video Games be Spiritual?

Video games need interpretation like all art, but there are few places for grown-ups to find guidance on anything more than the latest way to shoot people in the head. Practical advice on where to...

Satish Kumar in Conversation

Hear the amazing story of a one-time-monk who gave up everything to walk around the world for peace in the 1960s, eventually settling in Devon and helping to establish the Schumacher College as well...
Speaker(s): Satish Kumar

Bob Harris in conversation

Few people have broken as many bands into the mainstream consciousness as Whispering Bob Harris, through his work on Radio 1 and 2 and legendary TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test. He is passionate...
Speaker(s): Bob Harris, Martyn Joseph