Being Home
The Pickwell Foundation and their Asylum and Refugee Director Susannah Baker (MBE) bring you stories of how their community in rural North Devon have welcomed people seeking asylum as well as those...
Speaker(s): Pickwell FoundationA Mucky Business
In the light of Kate Forbes foundering in her bid to be the new leader of the SNP earlier this year (because of people's concerns about how her faith might impact on her policy-making), is it...
Speaker(s): Tim FarronWhy is it so hard to believe in a world without cars?
Why is it so hard for society to move away from its love affair with cars? Perhaps we need to focus not so much on the aspirations of those who believe in a green and pleasant land but on the...
Speaker(s): Wesley Wroe, Josh Grantham, Sarah Rowe, Anzir BoodooSaving for a Rainy Day
The church has money, yet there is a persistant sense of scarcity in the institution. We're told assests and investment are being saved for a rainy day. But isn't pouring? Join Eve Poole (ex-Church...
Speaker(s): Eve PooleSecret Power: Why it wants to destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
The Julian Assange and WikiLeaks case marks a crossroads for our democracies. A society that does not allow journalists to expose state criminality freely and safely so the public can know about it...
Speaker(s): Stefania Maurizi with Ewen MacAskillRisky (Social) Business
Steve Baker (former Greenbelt Board chair and serial social entrepreneur), Antoinette Daniel (Living Wage Award winner 2022) and Rosie Hopley and Claire Dormand (Lovewell founders) will discuss how...
Radical Funerals
Ru Callender has been a self-taught radical undertaker for over 20 years, setting up The Green Funeral Company in 1999 and described in The Good Funeral Guide as one of 'The best undertakers of all...
Speaker(s): Ru CallenderTrans Liberation and Feminist Futures
The trans liberation and feminist movements have a long shared history. Ruth Pearce will discuss mutual struggle and collaboration in campaigns for sex equality and gender freedom. Join her to hear...
Speaker(s): Ruth PearceThe invisible infrastructure of climate change
In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. Simon Sharpe argues we must...
Speaker(s): Simon SharpeActing for future generations – lessons from a small country
The word 'polycrisis' has become part of our lexicon and people across the world are feeling the affects of a failure to plan for the long term. Why do politicians find it so hard to think ahead and...
Speaker(s): Sophie HoweFear of the Future Panel
With the existential threat of climate change, the cost of living crisis, the long shadow of COVID, war in Ukraine, famine in Ethiopia (again), and the collapse of political truth-telling - it's no...
Speaker(s): Sophie Howe, Melanie Nazareth, Jyothi Cross, Becky HallWhy did the COVID narrative collapse?
Why are there so many conflicting stories about the origin and spread of COVID and the consequences of our pandemic response? Is there a single truth? How could we have done better in the face of the...
Speaker(s): Sunetra GuptaPalestine: the compass of injustice and dignity
On being a Palestinian: living in Palestine and in the diaspora. Engaging questions of faith, liberation and oppression for a silenced, oppressed, and struggling community, torn apart by apartheid....
Speaker(s): Muna NassarDisability and Justice: Prophets on the Edge
Disabled people have long been seen as objects of the church's ministry, outreach and care. Yet many of us are speaking back with a prophetic call for disability justice, in a world and church that...
Speaker(s): Naomi Lawson Jacobs & Emily RichardsonBurned Out Fighting For Climate Justice
We are no longer talking about climate predictions - the crisis is happening now. But we must neither throw our hands up in defeat nor hide away in despair. The planet, its people and other creatures...
Speaker(s): Ruth Valerio