IWD: reflection and celebration
Katherine and Paul, Greenbelt's Programme Manager and Creative Director, take time out to reflect on what International Women's Day means for them and for Greenbelt. Today is a day that we join...
Blessed are the Pink-Vested Peacemakers
How can we become peacemakers? In the Philippines, the church's radical mission of accompaniment and solidarity is landing its Bishops in jail, but it's also shining a light on the unjust...
Speaker(s): Father Chris AblonFather Chris Ablon
Father Chris is a priest and core group member of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform, working on peace processes and conflict transformation.
Who are we working with this year?
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...
A Greenerbelt
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...
Your giving from Greenbelt 2018
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...
One body: We’re all in this together
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...
G-Books: Your top pics from #gb18
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, Chine McDonaldBorders 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 TuamaDream, 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 BrownWhat 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 GreerTop 10 tips for doing Greenbelt on your own
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...
Family Gaming At Greenbelt
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...