Search Results for: 34

Burma: Where is the change coming from?

The people of Burma live in a brutal military regime with no proper education or health care. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? What can we in the UK do to end their suffering? Zaw Lu Aung...

Communion

Songs, Signs and Stories from the Land long called Holy. On Sundays at Greenbelt we have a tradition: the main Festival programme has a lie-down for an hour and everyone is invited to meet together...

Troubled times: time to re-envision our faith

We may have invested much in worshipping Jesus, but how much in truly following him? We need a church that coaches us in the ways in which Christ lived his life rather than one that invests so much...

Toxic childhood

Has the commercialisation of childhood won? To advertisers children are anything from small, absorbent consumercapitalists, to fulcrums of parent pester-power, and receptacles of prematurely adult...

What are intersex conditions & what does the church say?

How can local congregations be welcoming and respectful of people with variant sex and gender? Susannah Cornwall writes and teaches on issues of queer and feminist theology, sexuality and disability.

Rooted in the living word

From Chaucer, Malory and Shakespeare, to Jane Austen and the First World War over half the great literary works produced are rooted in the Christian tradition. Suzanne examines how these living words...

WWJD

Could climate change create the moment when we unite in the spirit of community? Or will it be our suicide pact? In a world under threat we are challenged to ask WWJD? Described in the media as...

Our global search for spirituality

Our planet is marked by deep spiritual crisis, yet there are signs that we are experiencing a spiritual renaissance. Ursula explores the many meanings of spirituality, with a vision of hope and...

GB90-106 The thoughtful ‘Charismatic’

Real encounter with the divine bringing freedom and joy or weird and controlling cult of infantilising theology? Time to rethink the ‘charismatic movement' says Simon Hall, who knows it from the...

One-Minute Mystic

Building on his weekly Daily Mail column of the same name, Simon looks at how practical mysticism can become integrated in our lives - whatever our particular beliefs. Mysticism is the stream which...
Speaker(s): Simon Parke

The children of Helen House revisited

What would your response be if you'd met a two year old girl recovering from a brain tumour and was now in a coma being looked after by her parents at home? Pity? Offers of financial help? Sister...

Open houses in ‘not nice’ places?

If you have or are thinking of moving into a part of your city which is not the normal attempt to climb a property ladder, at least partly because you are trying to follow a biblical imperative and...

In conversation

Sally will be discussing her latest book and the art of writing for children. Sally Nicholls is the author of Ways To Live Forever, winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2008. It tells...