Why Talking About The Climate Crisis Might Be The Most Important Thing You Ever Do
Rise Up! The world's most transformative social movements started with a conversation – and we're not just talking chit-chat. Honest conversations about the challenges we face, that stir our...
Speaker(s): Christian AidDo I Stay Christian?
Like many of us, Brian McLaren has been struggling with what it means to call oneself a Christian, especially when the term can hold diametrically opposed meanings. He suggests that an unexamined...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenThe Power Of One
Does being the UK's first and only ever Green Party MP really make any difference? Come and hear from the widely respected Parliamentary representative for Brighton Pavillion, Caroline Lucas, about...
Speaker(s): Caroline Lucas, Less Waste LauraThe Soul Of Climate Activism
Opening by reading her 'Letter to the Earth', a confessional Caroline Lucas MP chats with Pádraig Ó Tuama about the inspirations that have sustained her decades-long public life in green politics...
Speaker(s): Caroline LucasThe Fire This Time – My Taxi Ride With James Baldwin
A belief in creativity and equality have been the hallmarks of Bonnie Greer's career. Combining passion, honesty and fascinating true stories from the arts and sciences, as well as her own life,...
Speaker(s): Bonnie GreerIn Conversation With Brian Eno, Ambient Atheist
In a career stretching from Roxy Music to Coldplay, from David Bowie and Grace Jones to U2, Brian Eno has produced the biggest acts in the world... but the highlight of his week is singing in a...
Speaker(s): Brian EnoWhy Your Beliefs Stopped Working And What To Do About It
Drawing from his 2021 release, Faith After Doubt, author/activist Brian McLaren will introduce a model for faith development that has helped many understand why they've reached a faith crisis -- and...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenSuperior: The Return Of Race Science
In conversation with scientist and writer Angela Saini about her much-lauded work on the murky history, science and politics of race – and how the far-right is attempting to repackage racism in the...
Speaker(s): Angela SainiLost In Work: Escaping Capitalism
Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure,...
Speaker(s): Amelia HorganIn The Metaverse As In Heaven
As we move towards the metaverse and Web3, how should we prepare? How will virtual, augmented and meta ‘realities' affect our spiritual experiences and religious rites? What new opportunities...
Speaker(s): Andrew JonesCommunion: …And Now, the Weather…
Every day on the news there are stories of doom and destruction; wars and rumours of wars; poverty, child abuse, corruption … and then a smiley soul slides on to tell us what the weather will be...
Speaker(s): Azariah France-Williams, Pip Herbert, Electric Cabaret, Peter Graystone, Christian Aid
…and now, the weather…
For our 2022 festival communion, we met to express the planet's fear and distress, to give words to creation's grief, and to ask for God's mercy. It was a service about climate care and climate...
Space to Breathe
Space to Breathe are a Sheffield based Wellbeing organisation bringing the creative arts, simple spirituality and positive psychology to conversations about Mental Health and Wellbeing. Space to...
Nikki Eriksen
Towards the end of a disastrous school career, Nikki was invited to join a History of Art class, and a new world opened. While pursuing a career in Community Work, and then Ordination, he kept up...
Pip Herbert
Pip has no formal art/design training, but has learned ‘on the job' over the last 50 years. Areas of work range from Stage and Set design for, Concerts/Presentation evenings/school plays,...