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Father Chris Ablon

Father Chris is a priest and core group member of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform, working on peace processes and conflict transformation.

Each year at Greenbelt we are reminded that we are better together; that if we want to walk a long way, then it's good to make the journey with others. So, in a spirit of partnership, here's a...

Greenbelt has just gone an even more beautiful shade of green. Once again A Greener Festival has awarded us Highly Commended for our work making the festival as sustainable as we can. You'll know...

Following the 2018 festival, from 50% of the generous giving you made at the communion service, we were pleased to be able to give away almost £20,000 in total to five great organisations. The...

A blog from Natalie Gibbs, our associate partner URC's Youth Moderator-elect Those of us who are fortunate enough to have been to Greenbelt Festival will understand what I mean when I say that...

A guest blog by our lovely friends at Church House Bookshop who run G-Books, our onsite book shop... We hope you've returned from Greenbelt refreshed and with somewhere drier to curl up with one...

Communion: Windrush and Carnival

When the "Windrush generation" arrived in the UK in 1948 they found themselves excluded from much of the social and economic life of Britain. Many experienced horrific racial violence and injustice....
Speaker(s): Winnie Varghese, Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir

Borders and Belonging

Brexit has resurfaced questions of British-Irish relations, particularly around the border between the two Irish jurisdictions. Taking the extraordinary text of Ruth from the Hebrew Bible, Pádraig...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

Dream, Pray, Act

Joanna Brown's book 'Jesus' began with a dream, a prayer and then a meeting with the Ethiopian painter Nebiyu Assefa. It took her to olive farms and building sites in Jerusalem and Palestine. Her...
Speaker(s): Joanna Brown

What the Movement for Black Lives Teaches Us About Jesus

The last person many think of when protesting injustice against black people on the streets of U.S. cities is Jesus, even though his entrance into Jerusalem and subsequent disruption at the Temple...
Speaker(s): Broderick Greer

A blog by Jackie Elton, CEO of Christian Connection and Single Friendly Church For many people, going to Greenbelt each year can feel like returning home to a community of family and friends. But...

A guest blog from Andy Robertson If you're packing for Greenbelt, don't forget your smartphone. In drop-in sessions (Saturday and Monday, 9-11am in the new Telescope venue) we'll have loads of...

Rachel Rose Reid

Rachel is the first European woman to be ordained by the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, which reclaims and renews Jewish earth-based, embodied spiritual practices, and feminine narratives and...

Margaret Hebblethwaite

Margaret Hebblethwaite is an author, journalist and theologian, with experience in Ignatian retreat-giving, biblical teaching to students, prison work, and English teaching to the rural poor in Latin...

Joel Baker

Joel Baker fell in love with London club culture as a teenager, started DJing and hasn't looked back since. At Greenbelt he's done it all; warming up for headliners on the mainstage, silent...