Why I Write: A Theology of the Guitar as a cheap therapist
Martyn will speak about a lifelong journey of expression, through writing songs, expounding the possibilities, maybes and dreams contained within. Thoughts on how and where inspiration is to be...
Speaker(s): Martyn JosephAn Issue! An Issue! We all fall down: Same-Sex Marriage and the People of God.
The same-sex marriage bill has caused quite a stir and has received a lot of opposition from Christian leaders. Is there a Christian case for same-sex marriage and should the Church be promoting it...
Speaker(s): Mark Oakley8 principles for winning the future
The future is up for grabs. The digital revolution was really just the trailer. Humanity is about to participate in a change as fundamental as the Industrial Revolution. It will change everything for...
Can white middle class people be radical?
Radical theology situates itself outside of the church and alongside those who are excluded from and rejected by society. So what does it mean for Christians to engage with radical theology? And how...
Speaker(s): Marika RoseWhen Politics Fail: The grassroots movement that will bring peace to Israel and Palestine
The peace process to resolve the Israel/Palestine situation is not working. Might a global, grassroots movement accomplish what the political process has not? A look to the Gospels to provide the...
Beyond Interfaith Dialogue: How can Christians talk to Jews about Israel?
As the Israel/Palestine situation grows more urgent, Christians are finding it increasingly difficult to talk to Jewish friends, family members and colleagues about it. How do Christians understand...
Putting Women in Their Place: developing gender equality worldwide
Staring up at the glass ceiling and down into the wage gap, at women wearing mitres and men wearing stilettos. On a bewildering global platform gender equality has never been so important. This talk...
Maize: super hero or cereal killer?
In Africa, maize is a political commodity. It plays good crop/bad crop with the world's poorest, the saviour of the hungry one minute, disguising the real issues and problems that contribute to...
Motherhood and God
A woman's experience of giving birth is the most privileged human insight into the creative power of God. But millions of women over the world today suffer poor medical care and after this profound...
Speaker(s): Margaret HebblethwaitePowers of Imagination: Nurturing spiritual insights into unjust systems
Desperately Trying to Control the Universe
Kip takes us on an investigative journey through some artists' obsessions, a search for the universal in the particular, a pile of sweepings from the studio floor. Kip Gresham has been a...
We asked them to be transparent and they called us the “Tax Taliban”!
We have yet to find the 11th Commandment – that says “Do whatever thou wilt, just don't get caught”. Faced with rampant injustice and greed, and the resulting suffering of the poorest, surely...
Reading the bible is bad for your faith
The Reformation happened at the same time as the invention of the printing press. Some would see this as fortuitous, even divinely contrived. But over time our relationship to the Bible has changed,...
Speaker(s): John BellP is for power
We all vote, we all spend money, we all influence those closest to us and we all have or should have the possibility of holding accountable those who wield power on our behalf in the church or in the...
Speaker(s): John BellGod, Perhaps
Contrary to the most venerable axioms of theology, ought we to say that God does not exist but that God insists. Perhaps it is we who exist, not God, and it is our responsibility to see that God...