Beyond the cult of self-help
A workshop taking you beyond the narrow individualism of self help to more adventurous approaches to love, friendship and work. Mark Vernon was an Anglican priest before becoming an atheist and then...
Behind the sofa: when is it OK to scare the kids?
Doctor Who themed, Behind The Sofa explores the question of when is it OK to scare kids with TV? And should we? Jeff Anderson is a Church of England vicar serving in the north east of England....
Bill Gates, Bono and you
Matthew Bishop talks about his new book, Philanthrocapitalism, co-authored with Michael Green. Matthew Bishop is American Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief for The Economist, and co-author...
Planet Narnia and the Narnia code
Did C. S. Lewis secretly construct the Chronicles of Narnia out of the imagery associated with the seven heavens of the medieval cosmos? The world of Narnia has long attracted those looking for...
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt
To explore the causes of climate change we have to go back to the time of Socrates. And is the only way to address it now to develop a Christian concept of time and space? Mike Edwards is CAFOD's...
Coping with the crunch
How should churches respond to the recession and economic crisis? Come along, share stories of what your church has been doing to help those affected, and discuss what more could be done. There will...
Giving It Up
Every Lent, people give up something like chocolate or alcohol. Is there some other kind of ‘giving up' that might be more useful? A look at some figures from Christian history to find out what...
O thou who changest not
The early Christians distinguished between our time in this life and a very different time, which was, for them, ‘real time.' This real time was the ever-presence of God, sometimes called...
How to be a religious agnostic
The new atheist argument with religion goes nowhere fast, and nurtures the dangerous vice of intolerance. Mark Vernon asks how can such an agnosticism be fleshed out? Mark Vernon was an Anglican...
Speaker(s): Mark VernonDid Darwin help us to understand God better?
Two hundred years on, are we recognising that far from undermining faith, Darwin may help us understand it better? With Dr Allan Chapman, historian of science at Wadham College, Oxford, Mark Vernon,...
The Republic of Heaven: A Catholic Anglican future
‘The Catholic tradition' in the Church of England is not what most people see as a seed bed of hope for the church, and before it can be, some aspects which are not authentically Catholic need to...
Yes we can? What Obama means for us
Barack Obama's experience as a Community Organiser working with churches in Chicago helped him win the Presidency. Do we believe churches can make political change in our communities? Find out how...
How to be human (with Hieronymus Bosch)
What can a painting 500 years old tell us about life today? Find out, in the company of Thomas à Kempis, Terry Pratchett, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno and Hieronymus Bosch. Justin Lewis-Anthony is Rector...
We are strange: God is stranger
Bookshops are full of argument and counter-argument between atheists and Christians, but what could theology actually learn from a ‘new physics' that has given us parallel universes, multiple...
Speaker(s): Kester BrewinA plea for Christian piracy
They make corporations' blood boil, and children's pulses race: what is it about pirates that remains perennially fascinating, and what possibly could our faith learn from Somalian bandits, 17th...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin