Peter Bazely & Friends
Peter describes his act as stand-up comedy, but others simply label it a cry for help.
The Depressives Of The Bible
25% of us suffer from mental health problems. Mercifully the Bible doesn't shy away from depicting real people with their real struggles. So what can those of us with depression, anxiety and other...
Speaker(s): Matt PageCaught In The Act
We may think we're not sexist but sometimes our instinctive reactions reveal values and behaviours at odds with what we say we believe. How can we unravel the ‘sayings and doings of...
Speaker(s): Jenny BakerThe Problem(s) With Worship
What has the experience of ‘contemporary worship' become? What problems did it solve – and create? Why is there a lot of ‘worship malaise' these days – and what needs to be done in the...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenThe Bible 3.0
The church that is emerging is discovering new ways of reading the Bible – and they make all the difference for critical issue like gender, sexuality, the environment, poverty, and peace. One of...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenWhat Will Religion Become?
What are the prospects for religion in tomorrow's world? What internal problems must religions solve? What external problems must they engage? How can Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenWhat Kind of Church is Emerging (And what is happening to the one we had)?
Graham Cray's role as leader of Fresh Expressions has given him a national and international view of some of the developments in the emerging church. What has changed? What should not change? Is a...
Faith Based Criminal Justice Interventions
An insight into the development and delivery of faithbased criminal justice interventions, aimed at educators, practitioners, and other related professionals. Martin Glynn is a criminologist with...
Abolitionist Conversations: Can technology and social media be a catalyst for real social change
Two of the foremost leaders in their fields, the professor David Batstone and Erik Lammerding, come together for a creative discussion that will explore innovative ways in which technology, social...
Dreams of home
Mia will explore ideas of home – particularly the idealised vision people have of home, origins and family versus the reality – illustrated with short readings from her work. She'll look at the...
An evening with Adrian Plass
Adrian Plass is displeased with flippancy. Just as well, some would say. For more than 25 years his benevolently subversive humour has been clearing away the kind of religious rubbish that...
Children’s & family lineup for GB17
Greenbelt is an inter-generational festival like no other. It's not just that we have lots of children and families onsite. We do. It's that as well as their parents and carers, often their...
8 men and a duck: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island
Travel writer Nick Thorpe blagged his way into a hare-brained 2500-mile Pacific raft odyssey after overhearing a conversation on a Bolivian bus. Today he reads from his recently published book, shows...
Restoring Community in an Individualised World
Social capital - commitment and trust between people has halved in four generations. While the church has been focused on its own decline the social commitments which have held society together have...
Alternative Worship – grit in the church’s shell
Alternative Worship has carved out an innovative and creative space in and on the margins of the church in the UK over the last decade, reimagining the possibilites for worship and church. But what...