Stars and Angels
How are we to understand the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke? As fairy stories, that we can safely discard, as factual accounts, or as Gospel Truth? Morna Hooker is a retired Cambridge...
Making UK poverty history
Make Poverty History helped raise our aspirations to make global poverty history, but while this battle goes on is it time to focus our at tention on poverty much closer to home? Niall Cooper is the...
Speaker(s): Niall CooperHungry forhope
Zimbabwe has gone from . breadbasket to basketcase in a generation. From the politics to the personal, how does a theology of hope address individuals in a complex world? Nick Baines is an author,...
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Sometimes in the Gospel Jesus appears to be 'economical with the truth'. Why? And what do Jesus lies teach us about living faithfully as Christians today? Nigel Varndell has worked at Christian Aid...
Failure, frustration and loss ; the common person’s path to holiness
Being a human being is problematic. If success is not a name for God' as Martin Buber once asserted, then how do we measure a life? Is there a way to experience our failure, frustration and loss as...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliMessage to a dying church
What if we could confess that after all these years, the truth remains that we're not very good at Christianity? We might be surprised to find that within our aging congregations is a capacity for...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliDoes theology matter for peaceful coexistence
Mona explores classical and contemporary Islamic thinking on God and faith, society and authority, pluralism and mission to ask how theology can be both a cohesive and a divisive force in...
Speaker(s): Mona SiddiquiThe Gospel of falling down
We hear a lot about the gospel of success, but most of us are more accustomed to failure. For all those who feel unworthy or just 'can't make the grade', Mark speaks with brutal honesty, and offers...
How to ensure your funeral is well attended
Love,' as Jean Vanier, once wrote, 'is to reveal the beauty of another person to themselves.' How do we become love? How does our legacy in this life become a legacy of love? Like other Yaconellis...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliMartyr Virgin Mystic Wife
What do Christian women have to say to 21st century British society? The feminisation of football and the first female Home Secretary are signs of a changing landscape. Where do we go from...
Speaker(s): Lucy WinkettAngels & Announcements
People in the bible always seemed to have it easy because God provided a clear instruction in the voice of an angel. Maggi will be taking a closer look at some of those stories to see what we can ....
Towards a Jewish Theology of liberation
What does the concept of liberation mean for Judaism and Jewish life? What does it mean to be faithful today as a Jew and what is the role of the prophetic in that fidelity? Marc Ellis is Professor...
Unholy alliance religion/atrocity in our time
Can religion tree itself of power? Instead should we be thinking of people of faith across religious lines who, distant from the ConstantInian formations of religion, come into a solidarity of...
Is Israel Different?
From its inception in 1948, questions have swirled arnund Israel 's existence and policies. How should it be regarded within the international community? And what do the different understandings mean...
The greatest environmentalists in history
What on earth has heaven got to do with earth? John sets out why we need another. Apostles Creed, and why creationism misses the point. John Smith is the founding director of Concern Australia and...