The Wounds Of Gaza
Surgeon Swee Ang returned to Gaza in early 2009, and was overwhelmed with the devastation she experienced. Her article on what she found there – The Wounds Of Gaza – proved hugely controversial....
Butchering Community
“The Butchers” bought a lamb at Smithfield market, butchered it on their dining table, cooked and served it for lunch, sharing with friends each Sunday of Lent. Come and hear what motivated the...
Conversations with four mystics
The differing spiritualities of Meister Eckhart (13th-century German mystic), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes and spiritualism), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace and Non- Violence) and Vincent Van...
Speaker(s): Simon ParkeA new South African spirituality of liberation
What does liberation theology mean in South Africa today? How does it work? Exploring a theological framework, in a new country post apartheid. Born in South Africa, Solomuza Mabuza is a pastor,...
The Art of Looking Sideways at Christ
St. Augustine said that “If you understand it, then it is not God”. All religious language is necessarily metaphorical, which has a much better chance of leading us toward the mystical and...
Breaking the Chains of Injustice
Sami Awad is a Palestinian Christian living in Bethlehem. He is the executive director of Holy Land Trust, which seeks to empower the Palestinian community to develop spiritual, pragmatic and...
Robin Hood Tax
The Robin Hood Tax campaign is calling for a tiny tax on financial transactions to tackle poverty and climate change. Critics argue this is just another form of aid, maintaining power in global...
Praying through icons
Richard Chartres offers an illustrated exploration into the origin of the icon in the Christian tradition and invites you to consider them as a way into faith today. Richard Chartes became Bishop of...
Faith in politics?
How does Christianity underpin Britain's constitution? A look at the relationship between modern laws and morality and the Christian understanding of what it is to be a human. Described by Rowan...
The art of looking sideways at the Bible snippet
Language by gift and necessity is dualistic (distinguishing this from that) and metaphorical (it is pointing to the thing, but is not itself the thing). Jesus understood that much better than we do,...
The Art of Looking Sideways at the Church
Is there a “wisdom way” of looking at the support system that we call the church? How can we love it and not idolise it, learn from it and not ignore it, critique it without rejecting it, be a...
The art of looking sideways at us
The mind thinks it can look at things directly and understand them – which is a very big assumption.There is another way of knowing ourselves and one another that Fr Richard Rohr calls “non dual...
The struggle for queer freedom in Africa
In most African countries, LGBT people face criminalisation and violence, which is at best unopposed by Africa's churches and at worst supported by them. Variously described as a “homosexual...
Sometimes The Cheese Is Falling Off Our Cracker
We all need tools in our life toolbox for the times we are sharp with the ones we love or for “difficult” relationships at work. Level 5 is a tool, a skill to have ready for emotional moments. It...
Buy Bye Childhood
Has the commercialisation of childhood won? To advertisers children are anything from small, absorbent consumer capitalists, to fulcrums of parent pester-power, and receptacles of prematurely adult...