Sustainable development and the forgotten commandment
Greenbelt 2002 coincides with the beginning of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, the 10-years after 'follow up' to the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. But why is the environment...
Secular Prophets in Rock
Steve Stockman takes a break from writing his follow up to Walk On;The Spiritual Journey of U2, to share his research...Artists without a Christian confession who have prophecied into society,...
Streetkids in South Africa: a question of survival
Imagine your child living on the streets in a big city, sleeping in doorways or bushes, begging at busy junctions, sniffing glue to numb the pain. This is the reality for hundreds of children in...
Community ministry – what next?
This session involves taking a sideways look at community involvement. Ann Morisy reckons that by focusing on meeting people's needs we may miss some important opportunities for helping people to...
8 men and a duck: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island
Travel writer Nick Thorpe blagged his way into a hare-brained 2500-mile Pacific raft odyssey after overhearing a conversation on a Bolivian bus. Today he reads from his recently published book, shows...
A Global God: finding a better way to fight terrorism
Just killing terrorists won't stop terrorism. An international war against terrorism that doesn't also target global poverty is doomed to failure. From Bono to John Paul 2 to Gordon Brown, the issue...
A Woman’s Place is in the House… of Bishops
It's time to finish what we started and consecrate women as bishops in the Church of England. But how should we navigate these tricky waters? What will be the fall out? Joy has been working under the...
Procreation perogative
How does the Church react to childless families, fostering and same sex parenting. Joan King chairs with pastor and fosterer John Lawson, 'later start' father Simon Burge, Nun Anne Hinchliffe and...
Half the world is starving so lets sing another hymn
Prayer and worship are often seen as soft options in the struggle against poverty. Worship is seen as something we do only when we can't do anything more useful. But is that really the case? What...
Still waiting for my Blue Peter Badge
Following on from last year's highly acclaimed 'The Glam Rock Football Love Poems' perennial festival favourite Paul Cookson brings you a new poetry show drawing on work both old, new, borrowed and...
Speaker(s): Paul CooksonWhat would Jesus do? Yeah, but what did Jesus say?
Now Hallmark cards own the WWJD logo, bangles and all, it may be time to ask if the fad covers over massive ignorance as to what Jesus actually said to the world. Is this the day of Christ-less Jesus...
This is my truth tell me yours
What does mission amount to in a pluralist society? Can Christians learn about God from non-Christians? Can we keep a grip on our truth without rubbishing everyone elses? How to be confident without...
Speaker(s): Dave TomlinsonPeace in the Middle East and International Civil Society
In Arial Sharon's view, the reoccupation of the West Bank signals the defeat of Palestinian aspirations for independence. Only a few things stand in his way - the Palestinianians, dissenting Israelis...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperThe Umpteenth September 11th
What was an attack on imperial America's virginity is not an isolated event in terms of global experience. Here John Bell reflects biblically and sociologically on the day that did not change the...
Speaker(s): John BellMustard Seed vs McWorld… Rediscovering God’s purposes for the global future
God's vision for the global future is a very different one than the one driving the global economy and stressing too many of our lives. In this seminar we will call for a re-awakening of biblical...