Conversations with four mystics
The differing spiritualities of Meister Eckhart (13th-century German mystic), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes and spiritualism), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace and Non- Violence) and Vincent Van...
Speaker(s): Simon ParkeA new South African spirituality of liberation
What does liberation theology mean in South Africa today? How does it work? Exploring a theological framework, in a new country post apartheid. Born in South Africa, Solomuza Mabuza is a pastor,...
The art of looking sideways at the Bible snippet
Language by gift and necessity is dualistic (distinguishing this from that) and metaphorical (it is pointing to the thing, but is not itself the thing). Jesus understood that much better than we do,...
The Art of Looking Sideways at the Church
Is there a “wisdom way” of looking at the support system that we call the church? How can we love it and not idolise it, learn from it and not ignore it, critique it without rejecting it, be a...
The art of looking sideways at us
The mind thinks it can look at things directly and understand them – which is a very big assumption.There is another way of knowing ourselves and one another that Fr Richard Rohr calls “non dual...
Praying through icons
Richard Chartres offers an illustrated exploration into the origin of the icon in the Christian tradition and invites you to consider them as a way into faith today. Richard Chartes became Bishop of...
Faith in politics?
How does Christianity underpin Britain's constitution? A look at the relationship between modern laws and morality and the Christian understanding of what it is to be a human. Described by Rowan...
What Is A Good Politician?
In an era in which MPs are under scrutiny as never before and their credibility and integrity have plumbed new depths, just what is a good politician? Are our expectations too high or are their...
Speaker(s): Peter OborneA church of passion and justice
Sometimes the church behaves not as a community of the redeemed but as a tribal institution. In the light of the debates around women's ministry, the full inclusion of LGBT persons and equality of...
The struggle for queer freedom in Africa
In most African countries, LGBT people face criminalisation and violence, which is at best unopposed by Africa's churches and at worst supported by them. Variously described as a “homosexual...
Sometimes The Cheese Is Falling Off Our Cracker
We all need tools in our life toolbox for the times we are sharp with the ones we love or for “difficult” relationships at work. Level 5 is a tool, a skill to have ready for emotional moments. It...
Buy Bye Childhood
Has the commercialisation of childhood won? To advertisers children are anything from small, absorbent consumer capitalists, to fulcrums of parent pester-power, and receptacles of prematurely adult...
It’s a Mad World
How Thatch- and then Blatcherism turned us into a nation of It Could Be You, Shop Till You Drop, credit-fuelled consumer junkies. Oliver James explains how a sane world can and will come...
How do you spell hell?
Dante's Vision of Hell has more mainstages than Greenbelt, and yet, at the pit of it all, there is an image of Luficer frozen in a lake of his own tears. This talk will use poetry, story and...
Internation Development: Does Theology Matter
A conversation about the theology that underpins the work of a Christian development organisation. Paula presents an approach based on relational theology and will include live comment from one of...