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Another Brick in the Wall: The reality of everyday life for Palestinians

Suad Younan talks about her staff and the children and families they serve, and how they face huge personal and professional challenges on a daily basis as they juggle disability, politics, violence...

Trying to Name the Elephant in the Room: The theological challenge of race and difference in postcolonial British Christianity

We cannot talk about Christianity in Britain without engaging with the broader framework of empire, colonialism and racism. This talk addresses the often submerged and unspoken reality of...

The Exuberant Church: Listening to the prophetic people of God

All sorts of people fall out of, or fall out with the church. Their journey is often transformative and life-changing but totally overlooked by mission theologies. Using the motif of “coming...

A Multi-cultural Society: A bankrupt vision?

What role does the church have in a multicultural society? What will change with the rise of Generation Y? What national vision has there been and should there be? A session that will explore some...

Borrowing From the Future

How are the rights of tomorrow to be valued alongside the rights of today? This big question gets focused most intensely in relation to fairness between generations as Baby Boomers are posed to take...

Resentment in a world of cliches

Resentment is always a dangerous emotion, especially if we let clichés do our thinking for us. In our troubled times it is essential to counter its spread between neighbours, religions, gangs and...

Big Society 2: There’s no such thing as (the big) society

Or is there? What does the vision of a Big Society mean for the people expected to deliver it? From Blue Labour pioneer Maurice Glassman to community worker Ann Morisy, a panel of experts examines...

The Holy Place

How might we live beyond the so-called “death of god”? How can we rethink the relationship between humanity and the earth? Are there ways of being that connect these seemingly unconnected...

Parts of me are dying

Andrew Graystone has cancer. Should he laugh or cry, fight for life or prepare to die? In this session he will explore all those possibilities and more. Andrew Graystone is the director of the...
Speaker(s): Andrew Graystone

Faith, Fame and Frank. A conversation with Andrew Lancel

Andrew is currently staring as bad boy Frank Foster in Coronation Street after spending seven years as DI Manson in The Bill. Janey Lee Grace talks to him about playing the villain, his faith and...

This blog is a long read. You might want to grab a cuppa. It's written by Greenbelt's Creative Director, Paul Northup. I'm writing it from the little town of Bethlehem; the place where, as a...