Ageing and Death: Approaching the threshold of the age to come
In most societies old people are revered because they provide a link with the past. They are the carriers of the community's memory. Yet the New Testament takes a different view. There, people like...
Faultlines and Phantasies
The past year has had its fill of environmental disasters and human tragedies. So how do Christians respond to these events? By saying they are God's punishment on disobedient people or evidence of...
Speaker(s): John BellThe Polyvalent Predicament
People have always been suspicious of the Bible. After science had a bash at its historical accuracy, theologians, sociologists, feminists and Uncle Tom Cobley found flaws. Yet the Church asserts it...
Speaker(s): John BellA Good Childhood
The Good Childhood Inquiry had some challenging things to say about childhood in Britain. Whether you agree or not, this conversation is a chance to find out more and actually get a word in edgeways....
Who do you think you are?
Is your church's history a mystery to you: irrelevant and boring? Or, do you struggle to worship in a listed building? Come and find out how your heritage – five years or 500 – could become an...
Sad Saints: Following Jesus feeling blue
There is still stigma surrounding depression, and a depressed Christian faces even more complicated prejudice and judgement- how can you possibly feel down when you have God on your side? Jo breaks...
Are We Home Yet?’
Is home where we pull up the drawbridge and keep out the stranger? Or a place of hospitality and refuge with room for them as well as us. Is home something we “do up” or open up? Do our dreams of...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber, Cole MoretonThe Magnificent Lady Bible Hunters: Sisters of Sinai
In 1892, Agnes and Margaret Smith made their way by camel and foot across the Sinai desert to St Catherine's Monastery, where they made one of the most important Bible finds of the century. This...
Home: It’s not where you come from
In our world of mass movement, migration and homelessness, we're all bigger than where we come from. What can we all do to ensure that we build cultures of welcome, hospitality and safety for all...
If I Am Only For Myself, Who Am I? The passage of a Jewish boat To Gaza
Flying the banners of the alternative voices of US, Canadian and European Jews, the boat Irene demonstrated to the world an implacable opposition to the Israeli occupation as it took part in a...
Wondering about Wonder
Wonder is more than an emotion, more than a thought. It is experienced by scientists, artists, theologians. It drives people to create new things, to make new discoveries. What does the experience of...
War: What is it good for?
“Absolutely nothing,” answered Edwin Starr, without mentioning that it protects our freedom and way of life from those who would destroy it. And, while war ruins countries and takes innocent...
Speaker(s): Simon BarrowShooting Economics
Through shooting economics for TV, Faisal Islam has begun to question how economics is presented on TV. He looks at how to visualise essentially nebulous financial concepts such as boom and bust,...
Hard House / Happy House
How would you design your own “smart” home? Come and hear about the “Homesense” design project, which brought the collaborative design methods of online communities to the physical...
Palestine and the Arab revolution: An overview of current events in the Middle East and the future for the Palestinians
A review of the recent changes in the Arab world and their effect on the Palestinian question. This session will give a picture of the current political situation, assess the significance of the...