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Credo and Capes: What Comic Books Can Tell Us About Our Religious Lives

From superhero comics (including the first Muslim woman Marvel superhero) to complex graphical novels, comic books open up the possibility of imagined journeys to encounter other religions, cultures...
Speaker(s): Rae Hancock

Pope Francis: the Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism

Paul Vallely lays bare the intrigue and in-fighting surrounding Francis's attempt to cleanse the scandal-ridden Vatican Bank, reveals what's preventing the church from tackling the sex abuse...
Speaker(s): Paul Vallely

Curiosity: Better for Christians than for Cats?

Curiosity is not always considered a virtue. Yet without it, Moses would not have turned aside at the burning bush and RS Thomas, in The Bright Field, says he missed his ‘pearl of great price'. A...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

Glimpsing Glory: Seeing God in the Everyday

In this talk we will be celebrating all things ordinary – and reflecting on how the God we encounter in the Bible is most often to be glimpsed in the most ordinary of situations, with the most...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

Animism: Common Ground where Christians and Pagans Meet

‘Animists understand the world is filled with persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is lived in relationship with others' (Graham Harvey). Noel Moules believes this is also...
Speaker(s): Noel Moules

Jesus and Wild Nature

While comfortable in the city, Jesus was a wilderness person. In this talk we reflect on his call to a deep personal connection with the sacredness of all things – and what it means in practical...
Speaker(s): Noel Moules

Hello to the World

Pádraig Ó Tuama has spent 20 years trying to say hello. Join him for this session of prose and poetry as he reads from his latest book and continues greeting what is beautiful, what is true and...

Writing Collaboratively: The Teenage Prayer Experiment

Miranda and her teenage son Noah began The Teenage Prayer Experiment by blogging. So what happens when you challenge young people to experiment with prayer, and to write up their results as a...

Mona Siddiqui in conversation with Cole Moreton

One of the foremost Western Muslim scholars, Mona Siddiqui talks about her life journey as a Muslim woman academic in Britain. A much-celebrated voice in our culture, she applies a uniquely probing...
Speaker(s): Mona Siddiqui, Cole Moreton

Albion Awakes? Re-Earthing Britain

Faced with a rising tide of psychological unease and stress, and an ongoing ecological crisis, it is time to fix the disconnect between people and nature in the UK. Is re-localising food and energy...
Speaker(s): Michael Northcott

Four Spiritual Weapons in the Activist’s Armoury: Redemption; Community; the Shadow; Archetypes

What is spiritual activism? The spiritual traditions offer tried and tested tools for taking on and ultimately redeeming the powers that be. Matt Carmichael explores four of them, using the stories...
Speaker(s): Matt Carmichael

Reasons to Stay Alive

A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on...
Speaker(s): Matt Haig

The next generation will need to stop remote-controlled war

Drones have made the perfect blue skies of Afghanistan a fearful sight for children, with missiles fired at the press of a button thousands of miles away. Learn about them and the Fly Kites Not...
Speaker(s): Maya Evans

The Shed that Fed a Million Children

How a series of miraculous circumstances, coincidences, and an overwhelming display of ‘little acts of love' from all over the world may eliminate child hunger. Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow tells the...
Speaker(s): Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow

Angels and Cyborgs

As the Christian vision of a new heaven and a new earth gets displaced by science fiction imaginings of technological utopias, what does this shift from angels to cyborgs tell us about being human in...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose