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Confront or walk away?

A look at how Christians can deal with conflict. Raj will draw on cases he is involved in and get people think ing about how they may cope with, resolve or even utilise situations they find...

More than eyes can see; a 9 month journey

Rhidian will be presenting thoughts and pictures from the incredible journey th at took him, his wife and two children to Africa, India and China. Rhidian Brook is a writer and broadcaster. His...

Pie in the Sky – Can Believing in Heaven Change the World Now

Some Christians still look upwards like the disciples did when Jesus ascended. What did heaven mean at the time of the New Testament and how do we translate those beliefs into our modern...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

Faith With or Without God – Towards a Heretical Orthodoxy

Faith with/without God: towards a heretical othodoxy Today we witness a passionate debate between those who would claim that Christianity is true and those who would claim that it is not. Pete will...

A Voice From Heaven

In his opening verses, Mark offers us the key to understanding the story he is about to relate. What does he tell us about Jesus, who 'came from Nazareth in Galilee', and why is it so...

Stars and Angels

How are we to understand the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke? As fairy stories, that we can safely discard, as factual accounts, or as Gospel Truth? Morna Hooker is a retired Cambridge...

Making UK poverty history

Make Poverty History helped raise our aspirations to make global poverty history, but while this battle goes on is it time to focus our at tention on poverty much closer to home? Niall Cooper is the...
Speaker(s): Niall Cooper

Hungry forhope

Zimbabwe has gone from . breadbasket to basketcase in a generation. From the politics to the personal, how does a theology of hope address individuals in a complex world? Nick Baines is an author,...

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Sometimes in the Gospel Jesus appears to be 'economical with the truth'. Why? And what do Jesus lies teach us about living faithfully as Christians today? Nigel Varndell has worked at Christian Aid...

How to ensure your funeral is well attended

Love,' as Jean Vanier, once wrote, 'is to reveal the beauty of another person to themselves.' How do we become love? How does our legacy in this life become a legacy of love? Like other Yaconellis...
Speaker(s): Mark Yaconelli

Failure, frustration and loss ; the common person’s path to holiness

Being a human being is problematic. If success is not a name for God' as Martin Buber once asserted, then how do we measure a life? Is there a way to experience our failure, frustration and loss as...
Speaker(s): Mark Yaconelli

Message to a dying church

What if we could confess that after all these years, the truth remains that we're not very good at Christianity? We might be surprised to find that within our aging congregations is a capacity for...
Speaker(s): Mark Yaconelli

Does theology matter for peaceful coexistence

Mona explores classical and contemporary Islamic thinking on God and faith, society and authority, pluralism and mission to ask how theology can be both a cohesive and a divisive force in...
Speaker(s): Mona Siddiqui

The Gospel of falling down

We hear a lot about the gospel of success, but most of us are more accustomed to failure. For all those who feel unworthy or just 'can't make the grade', Mark speaks with brutal honesty, and offers...

Martyr Virgin Mystic Wife

What do Christian women have to say to 21st century British society? The feminisation of football and the first female Home Secretary are signs of a changing landscape. Where do we go from...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett