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A Theology Of Music

Using illustrations from his mainstream media work, Steven Faux looks at music from a theological perspective, believing that God has gifted us music to both deepen our knowledge of the divine and...

Travelling Light: Political Baggage And The Migrant’s Journey

Travelling Light: Political Baggage And The Migrant's Journey Issues of immigration and asylum are ‘toxic' for politicians. With opinion polls putting immigration near the top of voters'...
Speaker(s): Sarah Teather

Confessions Of A Bad Muslim

Sarfraz Manzoor grew up in a working class Pakistani Muslim family in Luton. He could have ended up angry, alienated and in an arranged marriage. Instead Manzoor ended up in The Guardian, on Radio 4...
Speaker(s): Sarfraz Manzoor

Mixed Blessings

Sarfraz Manzoor is a British Pakistani Muslim. His wife Bridget is British Scottish Christian. In this revealing, surprising and entertaining conversation Sarfraz and Bridget reflect honestly on the...
Speaker(s): Sarfraz Manzoor

What’s Wrong With Poverty?

What are the metaphors that shape our understanding of what poverty is; what are the good and less good ways of engaging poverty; and why do many interventions to alleviate poverty actually make it...
Speaker(s): Sam Wells

The End Of Prison As We Know It?

What do we think about a prison system that heaves with misery? A system which costs on average £43,000 per prisoner per year? A system that seems unable to lower reoffending rates? If our prisons...
Speaker(s): Sara Hyde

On Friendship

When Tennyson met Gladstone they bickered over who had most loved their mutual friend Hallam, the subject of Tennyson's poem In Memoriam. From friendship expressed by letter to affection recalled...
Speaker(s): Sarah Perry

Sustaining Faithful Activism: From D-Locks To Divestment

Siobhan and Ruth will share their journeys in Christian climate activism. Come and discuss how we can help our church be the prophetic voice the earth needs it to be. Ruth helps run Christian...
Speaker(s): Ruth Jarman and Siobhan Grimes

Why Can’t My Dog Take Communion?

After studying environmental ethics, Ruth wrote her debut novel, Enemy of the Earth. Exploring the surprising parallels between environmental activism and Christianity, it mines her faith journeys...
Speaker(s): Ruth Ruderham

Food And Faith

How to eat well in a hungry world and integrate our food into our spirituality. Ruth is a community activist, Christian, academic, eco-warrior, mum, author, veg grower, wife and pig keeper rolled...
Speaker(s): Ruth Valerio

When Certainty Fails

Poetry seeks to find words of meaning when other words fail. Pádraig Ó Tuama's poetry explores faith, gay identity, conflict and story, and intersperses it with anecdote, warmth and humour to...

Let Us Remember: Stories Of Peace From The First World War

The witness of peacemakers in WW1 should prompt us to question how we resist and challenge war in 2014. What better way to commemorate the ‘war to end all wars'? Campaigner, educator and...
Speaker(s): Pat Gaffney

What Did Brian Ever Do For Us?

When Monty Python's Life of Brian opened in 1979, the Bishop of Southwark accused the Pythons of blasphemy to get their ‘thirty pieces of silver'. 35 years on, Richard Burridge, in conversation...

Atheists: The Origin Of The Species

Where does atheism come from? Nick explains the origin and direction of Western unbelief. Who were the first modern atheists and why did they reject God so angrily? Did Darwin kill God? And is...
Speaker(s): Nick Spencer

Seeking Sanctuary, Sexuality And Staying Safe

A discussion about the problems faced by the LGBT community leading to direct actions at strategic, community and interpersonal levels to address the injustice and oppression within the asylum...
Speaker(s): North East Gay Asylum Group