Irish soul
Once known as the ‘land of saints and scholars', Ireland is now in danger of being reduced to a ‘land of stocks and shares'. What does the Irish soul look like now, and what might its gifts...
Speaker(s): Gareth HigginsWhy Films Can Make Us Kill Each Other Or Save The World
Using clips from films such as Jaws, Secrets and Lies, Rocky and The Big Lebowski Gareth Higgins, author of How Movies Helped Save My Soul, brings his experience in Northern Ireland to bear on...
Speaker(s): Gareth HigginsCrazy for God – 2
The religious right and how I helped found it. Frank Schaeffer It's embarrassing enough having any parent at all, but when your dad is regularly hailed as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of...
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Brainwashed
To what do we refer when we speak of religious commitment? Is there any other kind? David Dark suggests that we're perhaps most faithful to the world God so loves when we bring a redemptive and...
The power of the put on: questioning media
Mainstream media is carefully designed and redesigned to hold our attention by any means necessary. But more the more democratic forms of blogging, music and poetry afford us a landscape in which our...
The Party’s Over
The party's over Membership of political parties is falling rapidly. Is this a cause for alarm or celebration? ‘Counting ourselves out' can be a prophetic option for Christians in the UK today,...
Is Poverty Being Made History?
Douglas Alexander answers your questions on the UK's role in the global campaign to end poverty... and on what you can do to make a difference. Douglas Alexander MP was delivering Christian Aid...
Why politics matter
Mainstream politics is under fire as never before with people questioning its claim to be an effective tool for changing our world. The traditional political parties, it is claimed, are all much of a...
I just can’t stop! Addiction: the hidden secret
Drinking, eating, shopping, taking drugs, reading porn, having sex, going in and out of unhealthy relationships, working… what do you do when you can't give it up? Compulsively ‘act out'...
Re-enchanting Christianity: faith for today
Re-enchanting Christianity: Faith for today An exploration of how Christianity, once deconstructed, can become credible again – not by returning to some lost innocence, but by discovering a...
Speaker(s): Dave TomlinsonThe Gospel According To The USA – Questioning America In A Year Of Election
The Gospel according to the USA: Questioning America in a year of election With an eye on the passing of US global hegemony, David Dark discusses the battle for hearts and minds in the presidential...
Faith and spirituality in the music of Oliver Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was one of the most influential religious artists and composers of the twentieth century. Writing in a time dominated by cynicism and abstraction, the irrepressible optimism of his...
Rediscovering Christian Faith as a Way of Life
Rediscovering Christian faith as a way of life In the hands of institutions, the way of Jesus becomes a list of rules or a system of beliefs instead of the vibrant and world transforming way of life...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenPraying Naked
Many of us feel guilty that we don't pray enough, correctly, or effectively. Sometimes, we don't really understand the whole idea. When we strip it down to its simplest and most basic elements,...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenPostmodern and Postcolonial
The conversation about the emerging church is only one part of a larger discussion that is taking place around the world. Where the west focuses on culture and truth, the south looks at culture and...
Speaker(s): Brian McLaren