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I may be some time – ice and the English imagination

What on earth could inspire so many men to brave unimaginable cold, hunger, fear, and physical danger in the planet's most remote and forbidding locales? Spufford explores the British obsession...
Speaker(s): Francis Spufford

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...

Bulelwa (Mandi) Ngantweni-Hewitt in conversation with Simon Mayo

Talking of her journey from rubbish dumps, to setting up the Umthombo street children's charity, to motherhood. Bulelwa Mandi Ngantweni- Hewitt is the head of public relations at Umthombo Street...

Embracing the Deep

Come and explore concepts from Oceania to help us engage with the enormity of God's creation. Hear about Moana (ocean), Fenua (land), Turangawaewae (standing place of strength), Talanoa (speaking...

Lobbying Parliment on Israel/Palestine

Many people in Britain agree that the suffering and injustice being inflicted on the Palestinian people is deeply wrong, yet the political elite follows a US policy that colludes in Israel's...

How we lost our faith but lost new soul

In the first of two talks based on his new book, Cole Moreton reveals how money, sex and power struggles have finally killed off the God who ruled Britain for centuries – and why we should all be...
Speaker(s): Cole Moreton

The Last Bus Home

Nostalgia was once a medical condition to be treated with leeches; now we treat the nostalgic to a magazine series that throws in a free binder. Andrew Rumsey asks why the “longing for home” has...
Speaker(s): Andrew Rumsey

Being Jewish, the Israeli-Palastinian conflict

Israel is frequently attacked by advocates of human rights and social justice. Critics who are Jewish find themselves desribed by some fellow Jews as “traitors” or “self-hating”. Brian Klug...

A Christian Challenge To Britian’s War Culture

Britain's approach to international issues such as global terrorism and nuclear disarmament has been characterised as confrontational and self-serving. Bruce Kent will be exploring how a Christian...
Speaker(s): Bruce Kent

Does Big Society Need Big Religion

David Cameron's new vision of Big Society – civility, neighbourliness, community action, giving a helping hand – sounds an awful lot like good old-fashioned religion. What do the faithful make...
Speaker(s): Abdul-Rehman Malik

Jerusalem: will it ever be a city of peace?

The UN has declared that, for peace to work in the Middle East, Jerusalem needs to be a shared capital. At a time when this seems some way off, what can we do to encourage harmony among the city's...

In conversation

Bring your questions and get some more. Rob Bell is the author of Velvet Elvis, Sex God and Jesus Wants To Save Christians, and founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church. He also writes and narrates...

The Two Kinds Of New

Can we expect to get better and fresher and more relevant with age or will we inevitably grow stale, brittle, and irrelevant? In many art forms, it's assumed that the older you get the fresher and...

Live Aid or Dead Aid

Has Aid become the problem rather than the solution for the developing world? Is Bono's or Moyo's model the way forward? Robert will take a deeper look at these dynamics through a popular...