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Eating Jesus

How a piece of bread was revealed as God to an unprepared unbeliever; how body and blood become free groceries for the city's poor. Sara Miles talks about her radical conversion, and she and...
Speaker(s): Sara Miles

Eating with Jesus

A left-wing lesbian Jesus freak and a postmodern gay priest talk about food, art, politics, and worship. Paul Fromberg and Sara Miles from St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco lead...
Speaker(s): Sara Miles

Glorifying the stranger

How to be church for the wrong people: emerging worship with whores, foreigners and the ritually unclean. A lesson in how to welcome the stranger. Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an...
Speaker(s): Sara Miles

A hidden apartheid

Why, in the world's thirdbiggest democratic economy, are 250 million people denied their human rights? The caste system in India today. Elephants are lovely things aren't they? Strong, peaceful...

Does the Bible exclude people

In the church there is a tension between those who claim to be ‘biblical' and those who want to be ‘inclusive'. Drawing on a decade's research into the use of the Bible under apartheid in...

The great African scandal

Together with Christian Aid, Robert Beckford recently traveled to Ghana in West Africa, where, two centuries ago, his ancestors were seized and taken as slaves to Jamaica. There, he discovered the...

Life’s ordinary magic: encountering God in the reality of our lives

How can we connect with ourselves, each other and God through the small miracles of everyday life, the issues and events that shape our world? Rosemary Lain-Priestley asks how, by our attentiveness...

I-NDIA

Bangalore is a global IT powerhouse and yet millions live in slums. What are the environmental impacts and challenges facing the new India? Elephants are lovely things aren't they? Strong,...

Was Jesus a jazz musician?

What if the whole Kingdom thing is a paradox of deep discipline and holy improvisation, of risking prayer and playfulness? What if being in flow is about attentiveness to minute particulars while...

What Do I Do With My Doubts

If you've never questioned the existence of God, visited a pediatric oncology ward, watched news of a famine or tsunami on TV, or wondered about the integrity of some passages in the Old Testament,...

Does Prayer Make Any Difference

Do my prayers make any difference? Why pray about something if God already knows? Do my prayers change God or do they change me? How can I make prayer more satisfying? In a multimedia format...

The Secret of the Universe

The world is good. The world is fallen. The world will be redeemed. Those three sentences summarize the Christian doctrines of Creation, Fall, Redemption. But how do they apply in a world that...

Getting On With Elephants

How A Rocha India is using chilli, tobacco and old rope to address human/elephant conflict in Southern India. Elephants are lovely things aren't they? Strong, peaceful and serene, they are the...

Slavery is biblical

We know that slavery is wrong, yet sincere believing Christians once defended it on Biblical grounds. Today's Christians also argue over issues like the Middle East or trade justice, defending...

Searching for Meaning – How Should you Read the Bible

Alas, no formula exists for reading the Bible ‘right', but there are things we can do to make sure we understand it ‘better' and avoid some classic pitfalls. Attempting that is exhilarating,...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder