Under the radar
After 30 years of getting it right and sometimes disastrously wrong, Adrian and Bridget Plass believe that if Christian humour is not on the edge it's probably not anywhere. There's a very thin line...
Stories from people: Youth & the Criminal Justice System
Speaker(s): Akala
Silent Retreats: Finding God in All Things
The TV series The Big Silence offered people an experience of a silent retreat to get in touch with what was important to them. Ruth Holgate presents some of the key aspects of Ignatian Spirituality...
Imagine if your home was demolished
The personal story of a family's four house demolitions after they were refused permission to build on land that they own. Come and hear how Israeli authorities rarely grant permission to...
The Good News Is Better Than That
Everybody has a story, a narrative we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are doing here. The interesting part is when you are confronted with a different story, one that not only insists...
Changing the world one carnival at a time: Witnessing to God’s story through samba and Beethoven
Sometimes God's story gets lost amid glamour and show, or suffering and violence. Brazil has all of these. The world does, too. Have we lost track of the story and failed to live as God's...
Contemporary Issues in Science and Christianity
How do science and faith work together in practice? During the Test of Faith project Ruth Bancewicz spoke to nearly 20 working scientists, collecting their insights on how their faith affects what...
How Not To Read The Bible
The translators of the King James Bible made it look like a book, sound like a book, and walk like a book. Unfortunately, “a book” is exactly what the Bible is not: it is a library written in...
The Spirit Level: Inequality as the enemy between us
The more unequal a society is, the more ill health and social problems it has. Inequality increases status insecurity and competition and the prevalence of all the problems associated with relative...
Pure Undiluted Slog with Q & A
Whether you write or sing or play or give speeches or create in any way, for many the creative process has a way of bringing joy one moment and madness the next. So how do we tilt it in the joy...
Governance And Democracy Trends In Africa: Our fears, our hopes, our future
Africa is rapidly changing. The emergence of significant new trends in its governance and democracy have the potential to create fear and panic in what lies ahead for the continent. However, these...
Bye Buy Childhood
The Mothers' Union is campaigning to allow children to grow up free from excessive commercial pressures. This session looks at practical ideas to help parents and children to be aware of the...
Jacqui Smith in conversation
The former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith talks about her time in government and her recent documentary “Porn Again”. No doubt the subjects of being a woman at the heart of government and life after...
Gods Behaving Badly
From Britney and Brangelina to Tiger Woods and Michael Jackson, western society is obsessed with the idols and gods of the red carpet. Can our fixation on and devotion to celebrity culture itself be...
Emergence Christianity
Emergence Christianity is the new kid on the block, just as Protestantism was the new kid 500 years ago. And just as surely as Protestantism gave us Lutherans and Presbyterians and Baptists, so...