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The Spirituality of the Long Distance Runner

An individual, private discipline that can also be conducted in large gatherings. A whole industry that markets products and solutions to its adherents. A religion, right? Yes: running. A...
Speaker(s): Jenny Baker

Scriptural Reasoning

Have you ever considered reading the Bible with Jews, and the Qur'an with Muslims? This talk brings together Jews, Christians and Muslims to share their distinctive readings of Bible and Qur'an...
Speaker(s): Saleem Seedat

Student Academy: Creative Campaigning

Come along to explore why the Bible could be our greatest campaigning handbook, how campaigning can be more than signing a postcard or marching with a placard, and why we should follow in the...

Student Academy: Life after school

This Student Christian Movement-led session looks at the opportunities available to you once school finishes. SPEAK is a network of students and young adults who pray and campaign about issues of...

Life begins… In Death

What do each of the Abrahamic faiths say about life after death? What are the important differences? And how might those enrich and help us understand our own and other traditions better? And do...

Life Begins…when All are welcomed!

Lucy Winkett will chair a panel including John Bell, David Stephenson, Hazel Bradley and Richard Keagan-Bull to explore their own experiences of the challenge and gift of people with learning...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett

Radical Theology: A Critical Discussion?

The radical theology movement is one that draws on new philosophical movements and is willing to embrace positions such as the death of God. But is this any more than an intellectual trip for a few...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin, Marika Rose, Lucy Winkett

Liberty is Near!

Garth Hewitt sings the Chartist Hymnbook and Mike Sanders explores the role of hymns in Chartism, whose activism prefigured the Liberation Theology of our own era. Singer/songwriter and author Garth...
Speaker(s): Garth Hewitt

Human Enhancement – is it wrong?

We can redesign what it means to be human. We can use technology to enhance our physical, emotional and maybe even spiritual selves. But, should we? Does it simply change individuals or could it...

Kairos: a time for Action!

The launch of the UK response to the Kairos call of the Palestinian Christians, with Sami Awad, Mark Braverman, Warren Bardsley, Mary Grey and the authors of Kairos Palestine UK. Chaired by Chris...

Greenbelt in the Future

Your chance to come and join in the conversation about what the future of Greenbelt and its family of festivals might look like. With Dot Reid, artistic director of Solas Festival (Scotland), Gareth...
Speaker(s): Gareth Higgins, Sami Awad

How they stole football from the people – and how we can steal it back

Football is the most popular sport in the UK but in recent years it has attracted strong criticism. Finances have supplanted the will of supporter groups and lead to a game riven with conflict,...

Catholic Taste

Is it all change or business as usual in the Catholic Church? What does the arrival of a Pope from outside the rich world mean for the institution and for ordinary churchgoers? How will the Church...

Did Life Begin? – a year on from the Paralympics

At last year's Paralympic closing ceremony Lord Coe said “I genuinely think we have had a seismic effect in shifting public attitudes… we will never see disability in the same way again.” Was...
Speaker(s): Livability