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Palestine – where to?

Prospects for a workable state of Palestine have continued to diminish, and humanitarian disaster looms, seemingly because of an exercise of democracy. A perspective that reflects both Palestinian...

Climate Change Ethics: The Jo-

If industrial civilisation carries on its energy hungry path the planet will overheat by at least 6 Centigrade by 2100. Will we be like Noah's neighbours, or take the Joseph option? Michael...

In step with the rhythm?

The ‘secular' world and the greeting cards industry keep their own liturgical calendar. From Fathers' Day to Halloween, should the church's year keep pace? Fusing the ancient and the new in...

Dirty Theology

Jesus is held up as purely divine, but enraged his contemporaries with his radical attitudes to dirt. What can we learn from this dirty theology he practised, and where are the Tricksters practising...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin

Single Women and the Church

By 2010 single women will outnumber married women in the UK. This session explores the lives of single women in society and church and asks how we might orient ourselves to this important and diverse...

Cultivating Wisdom – Women and Authority in a Post Feminist Society

After the death of Superwoman and the demise of the ladette, comes the ‘Female Chauvenist Pig'. Do Christian women have anything to contribute to a debate that has made men and women equal by...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett

Bambalela – Never give up

Kathy is the Leader of the Iona Community, and lives in Glasgow. She is a practical theologian, campaigner, writer and story-teller and the major focus of her work has been with social justice,...

Healing & Reconciliation POWs

How healing and reconciliation can heal 50 years of hurt and bitterness, and how forgiveness frees leading to physical healing. Keiko Holmes works for Agape, a reconciliation ministry described as...

God Bless Adam and Steve

The registering of civil partnerships creates a dilemma when both parties are Christians and ask for a blessing. The issue and the scriptures are here revisited. John Bell is an itinerant member of...
Speaker(s): John Bell

Reading the Everyday

We spend most of our lives with the mundane and the ordinary, but scratch the surface and everyday life is endlessly fascinating. Explore how we may learn to appreciate it. John Davies is a Church...
Speaker(s): John Davies

Division or Difference?

Can the Church in the developed and developing world share the same faith? John Gladwin has been Bishop of Chelmsford since 2004. He has had close links with Christian Aid and been a leading...

Too old for a Star Chart?

Worried about your appearance? Feeling confident? What does the future hold for you? An workshop for parents and their teenage kids to raise awareness about each others needs and boost confidence....
Speaker(s): Judy Reith

Freedom is coming

Kathy is the Leader of the Iona Community, and lives in Glasgow. She is a practical theologian, campaigner, writer and story-teller and the major focus of her work has been with social justice,...

Recycle your Church : green –

Worship in wellies? Prayers for the planet? Composting churchyard clippings? Come and consider how to be environmental and ethical in worship, work and witness. Taking home the 'green' in...

An Emasculated Jesus in a Defeminsed Church

An attempt to liberate Jesus from being a passive imp and the church from being masons in mufti. John Bell is an itinerant member of the Iona Community who has written a few songs, authored a few...
Speaker(s): John Bell