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This isn’t the sort of thing that happens to someone like you

Speaker(s): Jon McGregor

How to be a journalist in the digital age

Bidisha is a writer, critic and TV and radio broadcaster. She signed her first novel deal, with HarperCollins, at 16. She writes for the Guardian, the Financial Times, New Statesman, New Humanist and...
Speaker(s): Bidisha

Literature 40: looking back

Speaker(s): Andrew Tate

Literature 40: looking forward

Speaker(s): Andrew Tate

Life begins with cancer

Speaker(s): Anthony Wilson

Without football I’d probably be dead

Four inspirational stories of how – with the right protection, rehab and opportunities – children can leave street life behind and say to the world “I am somebody” through the power of...

The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass

Adrian Plass, a bemused Anglican, lives in a small market town. He is a writer and speaker who has produced more than 30 books in the past 20 years.

What’s the purpose of marriage?

Is marriage a deep personal experience blessed by God or a tool used by the state? If it's about having kids, what about those that can't or don't want to? If it's about a lifelong...
Speaker(s): John Bell, Marika Rose

The world is the poor’s and everything in it?

In South America the church has proved itself as a vehicle of liberation of the poor. In what ways could this inform the church in the current economic recession? Does this focus remove biblical...
Speaker(s): Margaret Hebblethwaite

What Women (In The Church) Want

What do women want for a church that has been run by men? How will things change as they become bishops? What would the Christian tradition look like if the patriarchs hadn't eclipsed the...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett, Vicky Beeching, Marika Rose, Rachel Mann

Student Academy: The Revolution will be Spiritualised

Please leave your pocketsized Jesus firmly in your tent! This SPEAK-led session looks at Jesus the Revolutionary and some of the groundshaking, radical parts of the Bible. Come to be inspired and...