Faith With or Without God – Towards a Heretical Orthodoxy
Faith with/without God: towards a heretical othodoxy Today we witness a passionate debate between those who would claim that Christianity is true and those who would claim that it is not. Pete will...
Embodied mysticism: what does it mean to be
An idiosyncratic and improvisational journey through conver sation and percussive performance into knowing and not knowing, being and doing, silence and sound. Philip Roderick is a priest and...
Confront or walk away?
A look at how Christians can deal with conflict. Raj will draw on cases he is involved in and get people think ing about how they may cope with, resolve or even utilise situations they find...
More than eyes can see; a 9 month journey
Rhidian will be presenting thoughts and pictures from the incredible journey th at took him, his wife and two children to Africa, India and China. Rhidian Brook is a writer and broadcaster. His...
A Voice From Heaven
In his opening verses, Mark offers us the key to understanding the story he is about to relate. What does he tell us about Jesus, who 'came from Nazareth in Galilee', and why is it so...
Stars and Angels
How are we to understand the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke? As fairy stories, that we can safely discard, as factual accounts, or as Gospel Truth? Morna Hooker is a retired Cambridge...
Making UK poverty history
Make Poverty History helped raise our aspirations to make global poverty history, but while this battle goes on is it time to focus our at tention on poverty much closer to home? Niall Cooper is the...
Speaker(s): Niall CooperHungry forhope
Zimbabwe has gone from . breadbasket to basketcase in a generation. From the politics to the personal, how does a theology of hope address individuals in a complex world? Nick Baines is an author,...
The Gospel of falling down
We hear a lot about the gospel of success, but most of us are more accustomed to failure. For all those who feel unworthy or just 'can't make the grade', Mark speaks with brutal honesty, and offers...
How to ensure your funeral is well attended
Love,' as Jean Vanier, once wrote, 'is to reveal the beauty of another person to themselves.' How do we become love? How does our legacy in this life become a legacy of love? Like other Yaconellis...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliFailure, frustration and loss ; the common person’s path to holiness
Being a human being is problematic. If success is not a name for God' as Martin Buber once asserted, then how do we measure a life? Is there a way to experience our failure, frustration and loss as...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliMessage to a dying church
What if we could confess that after all these years, the truth remains that we're not very good at Christianity? We might be surprised to find that within our aging congregations is a capacity for...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliDoes theology matter for peaceful coexistence
Mona explores classical and contemporary Islamic thinking on God and faith, society and authority, pluralism and mission to ask how theology can be both a cohesive and a divisive force in...
Speaker(s): Mona SiddiquiUnholy alliance religion/atrocity in our time
Can religion tree itself of power? Instead should we be thinking of people of faith across religious lines who, distant from the ConstantInian formations of religion, come into a solidarity of...
Is Israel Different?
From its inception in 1948, questions have swirled arnund Israel 's existence and policies. How should it be regarded within the international community? And what do the different understandings mean...