Putting Women in Their Place: developing gender equality worldwide
Staring up at the glass ceiling and down into the wage gap, at women wearing mitres and men wearing stilettos. On a bewildering global platform gender equality has never been so important. This talk...
Maize: super hero or cereal killer?
In Africa, maize is a political commodity. It plays good crop/bad crop with the world's poorest, the saviour of the hungry one minute, disguising the real issues and problems that contribute to...
We asked them to be transparent and they called us the “Tax Taliban”!
We have yet to find the 11th Commandment – that says “Do whatever thou wilt, just don't get caught”. Faced with rampant injustice and greed, and the resulting suffering of the poorest, surely...
Powers of Imagination: Nurturing spiritual insights into unjust systems
Desperately Trying to Control the Universe
Kip takes us on an investigative journey through some artists' obsessions, a search for the universal in the particular, a pile of sweepings from the studio floor. Kip Gresham has been a...
Reading the bible is bad for your faith
The Reformation happened at the same time as the invention of the printing press. Some would see this as fortuitous, even divinely contrived. But over time our relationship to the Bible has changed,...
Speaker(s): John BellP is for power
We all vote, we all spend money, we all influence those closest to us and we all have or should have the possibility of holding accountable those who wield power on our behalf in the church or in the...
Speaker(s): John BellGod, Perhaps
Contrary to the most venerable axioms of theology, ought we to say that God does not exist but that God insists. Perhaps it is we who exist, not God, and it is our responsibility to see that God...
Bluestone 42 and The Sacred Art of Swearing
James Cary talks about writing Bluestone 42 (BBC3) and the ethics of comedy, swearing and telling people to generally get stuffed in entertaining ways. Warning: session contains swearing. But we know...
Speaker(s): James CaryWhy does the Left have all the best jokes?
Britain is not short of comedians, many of whom talk about ethics and politics. But almost all of these comedians are on the Left. James Cary, a comedy writer who is not a Leftie, thinks about why...
Speaker(s): James CaryFrom Investment Banker to Activist
Why would a former diplomat and investment banker give up his cosy existence to lead a Christian development charity and campaign for justice in the Middle East? Jeremy Moodey explains what motivated...
Speaker(s): Jeremy MoodeyGod is in the house
God is around the table, in the conversation, holding a glass of red. These conversations happen globally and there are so many that it's becoming a movement and it has a name – Mesa (Portugese...
Speaker(s): Fuzz KittoCinematic States and the Stories We Tell
Join film critic Gareth Higgins on a journey through the American Dreamlife as explored in his new book Cinematic States. What are critics for, how do the stories we tell interact with our own...
Speaker(s): Gareth HigginsWhat Kind of Church is Emerging (And what is happening to the one we had)?
Graham Cray's role as leader of Fresh Expressions has given him a national and international view of some of the developments in the emerging church. What has changed? What should not change? Is a...
How to make your church dementia friendly
A look at how dementia affects sufferers and other members of the family, and an exploration of the numerous practical ways in which churches can offer them hospitality and friendship. Trevor Adams...