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Faithfully Feminist: Why we stay

It is a common question asked of women who claim a feminist identity, membership in a particular religious tradition, and practise their faith in spite of gendered challenges. Hear the stories of...
Speaker(s): Julie Siddiqi, Catriona Robertson

Does The Way We Talk About Religious Persecution Matter?

Christians in places like Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria are reporting a rise in religious persecution, in the wider context of Islamic extremism and anti-Islamic attacks in Europe. How can the church...
Speaker(s): Grace Pengelly

After Bowie and Prince

With the untimely deaths of Prince and David Bowie, is the age of rock stars as avatars of our better selves, pointing to a world of possibility all over? Is all we're left with nostalgia and...
Speaker(s): Steve Lawson

Lemn Sissay In conversation

Come and hear poet Lemn Sissay in conversation with Martin Wroe on his life as a child in care and now as Chancellor of Manchester University and one of the nation's best-loved poets. His sense of...
Speaker(s): Lemn Sissay

Gungor In Conversation

Michael and Lisa Gungor, part of the driving force behind the progressive US Liturgists movement and wonderful music artists, get to share about their life and work and motivations with Martyn...
Speaker(s): Gungor, Martyn Joseph

Grace Wroe

Grace grew up at Greenbelt. Since graduating in social policy from Bristol University she has worked in a centre for vulnerable women in King's Cross, London and is now a Restorative Justice...

Christina Welch

Christina is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Winchester, where she leads the masters degree in Death, Religion and Culture; a distance learning programme. A Religious Studies scholar,...

Arriving + Departing Greenbelt 2017

We know you're getting excited about Greenbelt. We guess you're probably planning and packing ?, making lists and devising menus ?, so we've a few bits of information to help you get onto site...

The Hub : For ALL your campsite needs

As you make your way down into the campsite, you'll find The Hub just before the entrance to the Festival Village on the right-hand side.  The Hub is home for all your campsite needs. Whether it's...

Panel on Faith & Science

Skipping past the hackneyed scienceversus- faith debates, this panel conversation acknowledges science as God's gift and aims instead to focus on how we as communities, individuals and churches can...
Speaker(s): Tom McLeish, Abdul-Rehman Malik, Winchester University

Communion

Inspired by Pope Francis' ‘Laudato si' our Greenbelt Communion Service this year is conceived and shaped by Br Sam and the Franciscan community at Hilfield Friary in Dorset. They will be joined...

Body Shock

With so much focus on photoshopped body images, is it any wonder that we don't think we make the grade? How can we grow a healthy, relaxed attitude to the way we look as part of who we are?
Speaker(s): Siobhan O'Loughlin, Joanna Jepson, Steve Chalke, Judy Reith

STAYING ALIVE: A Conversation

Building on sessions that we've hosted at the festival over the past few years with artists like Bobby Baker and Jo Enright, hear author Matt Haig and disability rights advocate Katharine...
Speaker(s): Matt Haig, Katharine Welby-Roberts

The Real Benefits Street / The Truth about Sanctions

How did the government's ‘benefit sanctions' policy end up leading to hunger, destitution and desperation? Why are people on benefits being stigmatised? Joining Angela Neville, author of Can...
Speaker(s): Angela Neville, Niall Cooper

Twitter Vicars and the Sacrament of Social Media

Are you wearing your clerical collar online? How can you be a vicar on Twitter? Can you be a Facebook Father or a Snapchat Sister? Three well known social media lovers and working priests on managing...
Speaker(s): Giles Fraser, Kate Bottley, Rev. Richard Coles