Eco Tee Bags
Emma Duck leads Eco Tee-Bags workshops at festivals and events and now in secondary schools in partnership with Leicestershire County Council.
Clay Modelling
Take a small piece of clay and a big bit of imagination and create your own mini-masterpiece to add to the ever growing collection of fantastic creations. Self portraits, stars, planets, animals...
Willow Weaving with Jon White
Jon White is a Basket Maker from the Malvern Hills and has 26 years experience of making willow baskets and teaching others. Jon has been influenced by Irish techniques and favours heavy rods to...
A Guide To Online Dating
How To Date Online dating can be the way to a new life, or it can be a confusing rollercoaster. What are the secrets of making it work? How do we make good choices? And how do we avoid the bad bits?...
Speaker(s): Jackie EltonGoth Eucharist
Cinematic States and the Stories We Tell
Join film critic Gareth Higgins on a journey through the American Dreamlife as explored in his new book Cinematic States. What are critics for, how do the stories we tell interact with our own...
Speaker(s): Gareth HigginsPreacher Girl: The peril and promise of proclamation
Writing a sermon can feel like a wrestling match between the preacher and the text; a match in which the preacher should not walk away before demanding a blessing from that text for their community....
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-WeberFriendship, the Forgotten Gift
The best friendships are kind, intimate, loving, affectionate and fun. If they offer so much, why are they often so low on our list of priorities? Clare Catford argues that as we learn to befriend...
As you set out for Ithaka / hope the voyage is a long one…
Like Odysseus, we're all trying to find our way home. In some ways it's a paradoxical search, driving us to leave the familiar behind and journey into the unknown. But what kind of home should we...
Church in the Naughties
Work, Worship and the Sabbath in a 24/7 culture. There is currently much discussion of the shape and organisation of the Church - postevangelical, alternative, emerging, liquid, virtual... What shape...
Why Do I Do This Every Day?
Why do I do this every day? Many adults still don't know what they want to be when they grow up. Fraser outlines the factors that contribute to career disaffection, and suggests some ways...
Speaker(s): Fraser DyerThe Seven Keys to Living Justl
Practical steps for applying social justice to our work, family, and community. David Batstone is active as a journalist, university professor, social activist and business entrepreneur. He is the...
Abraham under the “Teaching Oak”
The biblical story is far greener than we thought. How to embrace deep ecological insights without the fuzzy New Age cosmology. Ched Myers is an activist and theologian. He has written half a dozen...
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 uprooting of a nation Palestine
Known to Israelis as the War of Independence, the 1948 war is known to the Palestinians as The Nakba or Catastrophe. The creation of the Israeli state meant a million people were expelled from homes...