Who do you think you are?
Is your church's history a mystery to you: irrelevant and boring? Or, do you struggle to worship in a listed building? Come and find out how your heritage – five years or 500 – could become an...
Sad Saints: Following Jesus feeling blue
There is still stigma surrounding depression, and a depressed Christian faces even more complicated prejudice and judgement- how can you possibly feel down when you have God on your side? Jo breaks...
Home: It’s not where you come from
In our world of mass movement, migration and homelessness, we're all bigger than where we come from. What can we all do to ensure that we build cultures of welcome, hospitality and safety for all...
Are We Home Yet?’
Is home where we pull up the drawbridge and keep out the stranger? Or a place of hospitality and refuge with room for them as well as us. Is home something we “do up” or open up? Do our dreams of...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber, Cole MoretonThe Magnificent Lady Bible Hunters: Sisters of Sinai
In 1892, Agnes and Margaret Smith made their way by camel and foot across the Sinai desert to St Catherine's Monastery, where they made one of the most important Bible finds of the century. This...
Wondering about Wonder
Wonder is more than an emotion, more than a thought. It is experienced by scientists, artists, theologians. It drives people to create new things, to make new discoveries. What does the experience of...
War: What is it good for?
“Absolutely nothing,” answered Edwin Starr, without mentioning that it protects our freedom and way of life from those who would destroy it. And, while war ruins countries and takes innocent...
Speaker(s): Simon BarrowIf I Am Only For Myself, Who Am I? The passage of a Jewish boat To Gaza
Flying the banners of the alternative voices of US, Canadian and European Jews, the boat Irene demonstrated to the world an implacable opposition to the Israeli occupation as it took part in a...
Shooting Economics
Through shooting economics for TV, Faisal Islam has begun to question how economics is presented on TV. He looks at how to visualise essentially nebulous financial concepts such as boom and bust,...
Hard House / Happy House
How would you design your own “smart” home? Come and hear about the “Homesense” design project, which brought the collaborative design methods of online communities to the physical...
Palestine and the Arab revolution: An overview of current events in the Middle East and the future for the Palestinians
A review of the recent changes in the Arab world and their effect on the Palestinian question. This session will give a picture of the current political situation, assess the significance of the...
The Sisterhood: What have we in common?
Are men from Mars and women from Venus? Is the developed world for the conquerors and the developing world for the victims? A cultural and spiritual interpretation of Black Christian faith, the role...
Off With Their Heads
Monarchy is so hard-wired into our constitution that if we tried to unplug it, everything would fall apart. Plus, they do great weddings. Or maybe an elitist hereditary monarchy, bankrolled by the...
Speaker(s): Bob Holman, Cole MoretonDoes My Society Look Big in This?
Ed Cox is the director of the Institute for Public Policy Research North and chair of the Inspire Church and Community Centre in Manchester. Before that he was an advisor to Hazel Blears MP in her...
Hacked Off With The Press?
Church Times' editor Paul Handley asks leading British journalists about public trust in the press following damning revelations about how some newspapers have been routinely collecting stories....