Powers of Imagination: Nurturing spiritual insights into unjust systems
Desperately Trying to Control the Universe
Kip takes us on an investigative journey through some artists' obsessions, a search for the universal in the particular, a pile of sweepings from the studio floor. Kip Gresham has been a...
Reading the bible is bad for your faith
The Reformation happened at the same time as the invention of the printing press. Some would see this as fortuitous, even divinely contrived. But over time our relationship to the Bible has changed,...
Speaker(s): John BellP is for power
We all vote, we all spend money, we all influence those closest to us and we all have or should have the possibility of holding accountable those who wield power on our behalf in the church or in the...
Speaker(s): John BellGod, Perhaps
Contrary to the most venerable axioms of theology, ought we to say that God does not exist but that God insists. Perhaps it is we who exist, not God, and it is our responsibility to see that God...
Why does the Left have all the best jokes?
Britain is not short of comedians, many of whom talk about ethics and politics. But almost all of these comedians are on the Left. James Cary, a comedy writer who is not a Leftie, thinks about why...
Speaker(s): James CaryFrom Investment Banker to Activist
Why would a former diplomat and investment banker give up his cosy existence to lead a Christian development charity and campaign for justice in the Middle East? Jeremy Moodey explains what motivated...
Speaker(s): Jeremy MoodeyBluestone 42 and The Sacred Art of Swearing
James Cary talks about writing Bluestone 42 (BBC3) and the ethics of comedy, swearing and telling people to generally get stuffed in entertaining ways. Warning: session contains swearing. But we know...
Speaker(s): James CaryGod is in the house
God is around the table, in the conversation, holding a glass of red. These conversations happen globally and there are so many that it's becoming a movement and it has a name – Mesa (Portugese...
Speaker(s): Fuzz KittoCinematic States and the Stories We Tell
Join film critic Gareth Higgins on a journey through the American Dreamlife as explored in his new book Cinematic States. What are critics for, how do the stories we tell interact with our own...
Speaker(s): Gareth HigginsWhat Kind of Church is Emerging (And what is happening to the one we had)?
Graham Cray's role as leader of Fresh Expressions has given him a national and international view of some of the developments in the emerging church. What has changed? What should not change? Is a...
How to make your church dementia friendly
A look at how dementia affects sufferers and other members of the family, and an exploration of the numerous practical ways in which churches can offer them hospitality and friendship. Trevor Adams...
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
According to Eric Kaufmann, religion is proving more robust than many predicted. Religious women bear more children than secular women and the most fertile regions of the world happen to be the most...
Unapologising
Traditional apologetics assumes that the people you're talking to know, more or less, what the thing they don't believe in is. But that's not a safe assumption in modern Britain. So how do you...
Speaker(s): Francis Spufford“The power of forgiveness for true reconciliation” A New Generation building peace and reconciliation in Burundi
Dieudonné forgave the people who killed his father during the Burundi genocide, some of whom were his neighbours. This has been embodied in a pioneering organisation he founded called New...