Judas: Who Was He Really?
Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot. An essential but doomed character in the Passion narrative, and thus the entire story of Christianity, was Judas...
Speaker(s): Peter StanfordCredo and Capes: What Comic Books Can Tell Us About Our Religious Lives
From superhero comics (including the first Muslim woman Marvel superhero) to complex graphical novels, comic books open up the possibility of imagined journeys to encounter other religions, cultures...
Speaker(s): Rae HancockGlimpsing Glory: Seeing God in the Everyday
In this talk we will be celebrating all things ordinary – and reflecting on how the God we encounter in the Bible is most often to be glimpsed in the most ordinary of situations, with the most...
Speaker(s): Paula GooderPope Francis: the Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism
Paul Vallely lays bare the intrigue and in-fighting surrounding Francis's attempt to cleanse the scandal-ridden Vatican Bank, reveals what's preventing the church from tackling the sex abuse...
Speaker(s): Paul VallelyCuriosity: Better for Christians than for Cats?
Curiosity is not always considered a virtue. Yet without it, Moses would not have turned aside at the burning bush and RS Thomas, in The Bright Field, says he missed his ‘pearl of great price'. A...
Speaker(s): Paula GooderAnimism: Common Ground where Christians and Pagans Meet
‘Animists understand the world is filled with persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is lived in relationship with others' (Graham Harvey). Noel Moules believes this is also...
Speaker(s): Noel MoulesJesus and Wild Nature
While comfortable in the city, Jesus was a wilderness person. In this talk we reflect on his call to a deep personal connection with the sacredness of all things – and what it means in practical...
Speaker(s): Noel MoulesHello to the World
Pádraig Ó Tuama has spent 20 years trying to say hello. Join him for this session of prose and poetry as he reads from his latest book and continues greeting what is beautiful, what is true and...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaAlbion Awakes? Re-Earthing Britain
Faced with a rising tide of psychological unease and stress, and an ongoing ecological crisis, it is time to fix the disconnect between people and nature in the UK. Is re-localising food and energy...
Speaker(s): Michael NorthcottWriting Collaboratively: The Teenage Prayer Experiment
Miranda and her teenage son Noah began The Teenage Prayer Experiment by blogging. So what happens when you challenge young people to experiment with prayer, and to write up their results as a...
Mona Siddiqui in conversation with Cole Moreton
One of the foremost Western Muslim scholars, Mona Siddiqui talks about her life journey as a Muslim woman academic in Britain. A much-celebrated voice in our culture, she applies a uniquely probing...
Speaker(s): Mona Siddiqui, Cole MoretonReasons to Stay Alive
A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on...
Speaker(s): Matt HaigThe next generation will need to stop remote-controlled war
Drones have made the perfect blue skies of Afghanistan a fearful sight for children, with missiles fired at the press of a button thousands of miles away. Learn about them and the Fly Kites Not...
Speaker(s): Maya EvansFour Spiritual Weapons in the Activist’s Armoury: Redemption; Community; the Shadow; Archetypes
What is spiritual activism? The spiritual traditions offer tried and tested tools for taking on and ultimately redeeming the powers that be. Matt Carmichael explores four of them, using the stories...
Speaker(s): Matt CarmichaelThe Shed that Fed a Million Children
How a series of miraculous circumstances, coincidences, and an overwhelming display of ‘little acts of love' from all over the world may eliminate child hunger. Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow tells the...
Speaker(s): Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow