Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality: happy bedfellows?
Mindfulness helps many to improve self-care. Tim (author of author of Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality – Making Space for God) explores what it offers by way of contribution – and challenge...
Speaker(s): Tim SteadWho Am I When I Forget Who I Am?
A theological evaluation of dementia, examining the nature of memory with a particular focus on the memory that we hold within our bodies, and offering new possibilities for hope and change even in...
Speaker(s): Professor John SwintonSatish Kumar in Conversation
Hear the amazing story of a one-time-monk who gave up everything to walk around the world for peace in the 1960s, eventually settling in Devon and helping to establish the Schumacher College as well...
Speaker(s): Satish KumarChristina Welch
Christina is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Winchester, where she leads the masters degree in Death, Religion and Culture; a distance learning programme. A Religious Studies scholar,...
Arriving + Departing Greenbelt 2017
We know you're getting excited about Greenbelt. We guess you're probably planning and packing ?, making lists and devising menus ?, so we've a few bits of information to help you get onto site...
Hello to the World
Pádraig Ó Tuama has spent 20 years trying to say hello. Join him for this session of prose and poetry as he reads from his latest book and continues greeting what is beautiful, what is true and...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaRead the Bible With Your Feet
Reading the Bible isn't always easy. How do we deal with the bits we wish weren't there – and dig for ‘a pearl of great price' instead? Reading not only with our eyes but with our feet...
Speaker(s): Lucy WinkettA Vocabulary for Pain
Reclaiming the unique Jewish-Christian tradition of lament as an antidote to upset, anger, depression and bewilderment, both at an individual and a corporate level. Once described in his...
Speaker(s): John BellKaren Rooms
Karen Rooms is the Canon Missioner at Leicester Cathedral with responsibility for developing the cathedral's social outreach, and Transition Priest in the Holy Spirit Parish Leicester. Karen...
Savi Hensman
Savitri Hensman was born in Sri Lanka in the early 1960s and lives in London. She is a writer and activist and works in the voluntary sector. Her book Sexuality, Struggle and Saintliness: Same-Sex...
Christian-Muslim Storytelling: Stories of shared faith from history presented by Khayaal Theatre
Khayaal is an award-winning theatre company dedicated to the dramatic exploration of Muslim literature for the stage, film, and education. Strengthening and enriching interfaith and intercultural...
John Wills
As a child of the 60's, John Wills grew up in the small East Northamptonshire town of Rushden, where he was able to witness the slow decline of the traditional town centre shopping. John was...
John Atherton
John works for Co-operatives UK in Manchester providing leadership and accountability for its membership and events functions. Cooperatives UK promotes, develops and unites the 7,000 co-ops in the...
USPG: The world church and ‘The Common Good’
A blog from Gwen Mtambirwa from our Associate, USPG ... As I write this it's just two months until Greenbelt 2017. It's three weeks since the terror attack at London Bridge (a mere 10-minute...
Asad Ali Jafri
Asad Ali Jafri is a cultural producer, global arts leader and interdisciplinary artist with a creative vision for sustainable social change. Since 2001, he has worked passionately with artists,...