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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...

What Is A Good Politician?

In an era in which MPs are under scrutiny as never before and their credibility and integrity have plumbed new depths, just what is a good politician? Are our expectations too high or are their...
Speaker(s): Peter Oborne

The bluffer’s guide to Israel and Palestine

Nigel Varndell first went to the Occupied Palestinian Territories ten years ago and has been going back every year since. He has talked with politicians, soldiers, gunmen, religious leaders, NGO...

It’s a Mad World

How Thatch- and then Blatcherism turned us into a nation of It Could Be You, Shop Till You Drop, credit-fuelled consumer junkies. Oliver James explains how a sane world can and will come...

How do you spell hell?

Dante's Vision of Hell has more mainstages than Greenbelt, and yet, at the pit of it all, there is an image of Luficer frozen in a lake of his own tears. This talk will use poetry, story and...

Internation Development: Does Theology Matter

A conversation about the theology that underpins the work of a Christian development organisation. Paula presents an approach based on relational theology and will include live comment from one of...

Middle Eastenders: The Bible As Soap Opera

Some Bible stories are perplexing if they are spiritualised in a sermon but make complete sense if you treat them like a TV soap. This sideways look at Bible stories digs through sex, betrayal and...
Speaker(s): Peter Graystone

The Secret Life Of Human Beings

As human beings we soon realise that we are not one, but many. How do we live with the different parts within us: the judgement, lust, rage, and depression as well as the joy, passion and empathy?...
Speaker(s): Mark Yaconelli

The Philosopher Jesus

Might Jesus have been a kind of philosopher – one in the Cynic tradition, even? After all, Jesus didn't write anything bar a few doodles in the sand, a fact he shares with Socrates, another...
Speaker(s): Mark Vernon

On Not Teaching Your Grandparents To Suck Eggs

Today's religiously and socially plural society is in some respects very similar to that of the early Church. Being Christian was not “normal”, nor popular, and there were plenty of gods and...

drones, democracy & depleted uranium

Robots, battlefield nuclear weapons and cluster bombs are changing the face of war. These weapons kill and injure civilians and combatants indiscriminately. Christians – just warriors and pacifists...
Speaker(s): Michael Northcott

Seeking the Risen Christ

The image of a female Christ figure – the Christa – is a motif in feminist theology, and a surprisingly popular image in contemporary art. Yet most of these images depict a suffering figure,...
Speaker(s): Nicola Slee

Our sound is our wound

We live in a noisy world. Where is the sound of Scripture or the voice of God? If we are listening for God's voice, how do we know if we have heard it? How can we live a different rhythm in the...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett

Writing On The Wall

Our culture is built on stories or ideas that come from the Bible. Literature, art, music, language and even our justice system are built on Christian concepts and biblical references. This session...