The Grove at Greenbelt 2017
A guest blog from Greenbelter Barbara Doye, who is coordinating The Grove programme for the festival this year ... Do you find yourself breathing deeper and travelling further into a sense of the...
Panels at Greenbelt 2017
Here are some of the panels being hosted at Greenbelt Festival this August. There will be other conversations too – with the co-operative organisations in our Exchange venue, in the Amal venue and...
Green Church Awards 2017
A guest blog from our partner the Church Times ... Is your church championing renewable energy? Campaigning for climate justice? Looking for funding to get a green project off the ground? This...
A piece of Palestine at Greenbelt 2017
Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director, outlines the range of Palestinian programming at this year's festival and why a focus on Israel-Palestine remains fundamental to the festival's...
Greenbelt 2017: A few of our favourites things.
Just as we head into Easter weekend, we thought we'd share a few festival favourites who will be gracing the bill this summer for our 44th festival, The Common Good. It's good to have a degree of...
An Altar in the World: worship & spirituality at Greenbelt 2017
As we gather at Boughton House for our fourth Greenbelt there and our 44th festival overall, we look forward to what Corrymeela leader and poet Pádraig Ó Tuama describes as his "annual sacrament of...
This House Believes The 2015 Election Will Make No Significant Difference To The Future of Britain
Motion: This house believes the 2015 Election will make no significant difference to the future of Britain. For: Martin Newell (Catholic Worker Network) and Louise Donkin (SPEAK) Against: Gavin...
Speaker(s): Louise Donkin, Andy FlannaganThe Business of Salvation: Building holistic communities in the 21st Century
Steve is at Greenbelt to provoke us on the themes of the church and enterprise, the welfare state, inclusion, government, community, the bible and the shape of the future. Steve Chalke MBE founded...
Speaker(s): Steve ChalkeBluestone 42 and The Sacred Art of Swearing
James Cary talks about writing Bluestone 42 (BBC3) and the ethics of comedy, swearing and telling people to generally get stuffed in entertaining ways. Warning: session contains swearing. But we know...
Speaker(s): James CaryCombatants for Peace (CfP) UK tour 2013
Hosted by Encounters, in partnership with the Amos Trust Representatives of Combatants for Peace, Palestinian and Israeli, will share their personal stories of transformation from violence to...
Greenbelt 2011 Communion Service
Living under canvas for a weekend reminds us we are all travelling on a journey of faith, dreaming of our home with God, seeking a place of shelter and security. In bread and wine, we recognise and...
2young4punk
How and why does the continuing influence of punk inspire those of us simply too young to be inspired by it at the time. A conversation hosted by Nick Welsh and Nic Hughes (who weren't there first...
Speaker(s): Nick WelshBig Society 2: There’s no such thing as (the big) society
Or is there? What does the vision of a Big Society mean for the people expected to deliver it? From Blue Labour pioneer Maurice Glassman to community worker Ann Morisy, a panel of experts examines...
Medieval mystical spirituality and the 21st century church
Exploring the relevance that medieval writers such as Julian of Norwich and medieval texts such as The Cloud of Unknowing have for the modern church. What can they teach us about the nature of God...
Messy Spirituality Part 2 (the mess continues)
Mike argues that for much of our life, things are just a mess. So how do we keep going when things aren't going all that smoothly. Mike Yaconelli heads up Youth Specialities, an organisation that...