The 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’s the purpose of marriage?
Is marriage a deep personal experience blessed by God or a tool used by the state? If it's about having kids, what about those that can't or don't want to? If it's about a lifelong...
Speaker(s): John Bell, Marika RoseWhat 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...
Our Lady of Greenbelt
What does Mary, the mother of Jesus have to do with Greenbelt? Are doctrines such as the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary examples of the Roman Catholic fear of sex and deification of...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaAbolitionist 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...
Poetry as a dream of peace
The Corrymeela Community tells a story of a woman who came to its house for refuge. In her luggage she brought a small hatchet. She was ready to believe they were people of peace, but just in case,...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaDreams 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...
Why aren’t there any women speakers?
is it just us, or does everyone struggle to find women contributors? Does it matter? What's stopping the wider participation of a more diverse range of people in church? How can we make sure there is...
Speaker(s): Jenny Baker8 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...
Speaker(s): Jenny Baker