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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

Like Father, Like Daughter: The Tutu Legacy

Using prerecorded video footage of her father Desmond Tutu (following his Templeton Prize award), hear Mpho reflect on her father's words and life with Prof. Richard Burridge. Mpho is an Episcopal...
Speaker(s): Mpho Tutu

A Romp Through The Church Year With Sinners And Saints

From creating an Advent icon out of torn up bits of Christmas advertising, to a ‘Selling of Indulgences' bake sale on Reformation Day – come and see a slide show of how House For All Sinners...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber

The Authority Of Experience And What The Gospel Has To Say About Real Bodies, People, Events And Trauma

What The Gospel Has To Say About Real Bodies, People, Events And Trauma How a Christian community responded to school shootings, the Trayvon Martin murder, and gay suicides. Nadia is the founding...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber

A Political Theology Of Climate Change

The UN and the UK government are failing to mitigate climate changing practices. This is because they think of the earth as capital resource, not divine creation. Reaffirming the earth as God's...
Speaker(s): Michael Northcott

George Herbert: Poems That Can Seriously Damage Your Atheism

George Herbert, a 17th-century courtier and priest, who died at 33 having written only one book of poems, still grips the imagination. What do his poems have to say about life, faith and the church...

The Four-Fold Path To Forgiving – The Book Of Forgiving

Written jointly with her father Archbishop Desmond Tutu and based on their own experience, The Book of Forgiving is an inspiring and practical guide to forgiveness; learning to let go of resentment;...
Speaker(s): Mpho Tutu

Voices From Syria

Four stories, four choices. More than three million people have fled the crisis in Syria into neighbouring countries. Actors share real life stories from refugees and the difficult decisions they...

How To Be A Human

Matt Haig talks to Martin Wroe about his novel The Humans (‘Hilarious' – Guardian). In particular he will discuss how looking at the human species through the eyes of an extra-terrestrial...
Speaker(s): Matt Haig

The Depressives Of The Bible

25% of us suffer from mental health problems. Mercifully the Bible doesn't shy away from depicting real people with their real struggles. So what can those of us with depression, anxiety and other...
Speaker(s): Matt Page

From Survival To Redevelopment

Leaders of Manchester Aid to Kosovo share examples of their 15-year experience supporting recovery from the Balkans ethnic cleansing campaign. MaK projects include human rights, education, art, sport...
Speaker(s): Manchester Aid to Kosovo

Travelling Heavy

Christianity doesn't travel light. It is weighed down with history, much of it shameful. What would it mean to deal with the burdensome history of Christendom and imagine our way into a lighter...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose

I Am Looking To Get To The Bottom Of This

I Am Looking To Get To The Bottom Of This From Soviet science to freak weather, lab experiments to the search for extraterrestrials, these poems draw a link between poet and scientist. We posit a...
Speaker(s): Martha Sprackland

It_s About Time

Christian Aid is proud to bring prophet and protesting powerhouse Lidy Nacpil from the Philippines to Greenbelt. Lidy challenges us to join the urgent struggle of the movemetns in the global south in...
Speaker(s): Lidy Nacpil

The Crisis Of Religion In The UK: History, Causes, Consequences

Church attendance in freefall; ‘no religion' set to become the majority identity; hardline minorities dominating religious groups. What has gone wrong with religion in the UK, where are there...
Speaker(s): Linda Woodhead