What good is a Church in the Inner City?
The pace of life is often fast moving in the city. It can be a place of noise, hustle and bustle. Often a place where one is anonymous – a “dogeat- dog” world. This talk will explore the role...
Ten Personal Decisions for the Common Good
The common good and the quality of our life together will finally be determined by the personal decisions we all make. The ‘commons' – those places where we come together as neighbours and...
Making a Meal of It
Open door, shared tables, community meals or eating with others? Whether sharing a cuppa and a piece of cake or sitting down to a major meal, join Rachel Turner and hear stories, ideas, passions and...
Forgiveness
In 2001, Ray and Vi Donovan's son was killed, with three men receiving long sentences for the crime. A decade later the couple met the murderers, in a properly facilitated Restorative Justice...
On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good.
Rev Jim Wallis shows us how to reclaim Jesus' ancient and compelling vision of the common good – a vision that affects and inspires not only our politics but also our personal lives, families,...
Making beautiful
Beyond the behaviour of others we are peacemakers and love makers. A workshop not for spectators but participants looking to grow our spiritual emotional social together. Seeking Shalom, making...
In the beginning was the relation: Creation
Suppose the creative word emerged from God's love for creation and grief at the violence and evil human beings have wreaked on the planet? A look at the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when the...
Dazzling Darkness – Being a trans, lesbian priest in the Church today
Dazzling Darkness – Being a trans, lesbian priest in the Church today Exploring her experience of changing sex, of being lesbian and chronically ill, and of being a Church of England priest, Rachel...
Speaker(s): Rachel MannIntroduction to community organising
Community organising builds the power of civil society in order to create long-term systemic change. It's what Barack Obama did before he become president but is an often misunderstood and...
The God Illusion: Christ and the Temple Curtain
In the beginning there was a sacred object that promised us satisfaction and wholeness; a sacred object that continues to make its presence felt in various religious and secular forms. In this talk...
Divine Decay: Living the ‘Death of God’
In contrast to the actual existing Church, which generally posits God as a guarantee of meaning, Peter will explore the idea of God as that which breaks meaning apart and the Christ collective as the...
Reading the Bible and doing theology to deal with violence and Intolerance.
For centuries theology and Bible reading have been at the service of exclusion, slavery, violence and intolerance. But they are also responsible for liberation, popular organisation, challenging...
Who is Pope Francis – and what will he mean for the Church and the world?
The election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope broke a number of precedents: the first pope from the New World, the first from the southern hemisphere, the first Jesuit and more. He has...
Speaker(s): Paul VallelyHope and Solidarity in the midst of inequalities and unjust structures from Brazilian perspective.
Brazil is still a very unequal country, but churches and faith groups are working hard to share and develop hope for the present and future. Paulo Ueti discusses these realities and tries to figure...
The Politics of the Common Good
It is assumed that the radical pluralism and diversity of our society mitigates against a politics of the common good. Maurice Glasman argues that in contrast there is a great need for a change in...