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Best. Greenbelt. Gig. Ever.

A guest blog from longterm Greenbelter Peter Barrett... It all started with a rumour.  At Friday's Angels Reception someone mentioned that Pussy Riot had been holed up in a Brighton studio...

G-Books: Your top pics from #gb18

A guest blog by our lovely friends at Church House Bookshop who run G-Books, our onsite book shop... We hope you've returned from Greenbelt refreshed and with somewhere drier to curl up with one...

Image and Imagination: Divine and Human Creativity

What does it mean to be made in the imagination of a Creator God, and how might our imaginations help us sound the mystery of God's love? Malcolm uses golden moments from English poetry as a...
Speaker(s): Malcolm Guite

Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum

If you believe the news, you'd think that science and religion are locked in eternal conflict. Religious believers are often portrayed as irrational and dangerously "anti-science" . But beyond the...

The Truth About Poverty

What is the truth about poverty in the UK? Forget the stereotypes, the myths and the media hype. This is your chance to hear - and to share - the unadulterated truth about poverty. Members of Poverty...

Communion: Windrush and Carnival

When the "Windrush generation" arrived in the UK in 1948 they found themselves excluded from much of the social and economic life of Britain. Many experienced horrific racial violence and injustice....
Speaker(s): Winnie Varghese, Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir, Chine McDonald

But I’m not racist! Am I?

Winnie Varghese, Broderick Greer, Prof. Anthony Reddie At the end of a festival with more programming around racial inclusion and racial justice than ever, a panel of contributors of colour talk...
Speaker(s): Winnie Varghese, Broderick Greer, Anthony Reddie, Chine McDonald

The Lost Art of Seizing the Day

Carpe diem - seize the day - is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. Roman Krznaric delves into its many interpretations, examines how it has been hijacked and asks how we...
Speaker(s): Roman Krznaric

Borders and Belonging

Brexit has resurfaced questions of British-Irish relations, particularly around the border between the two Irish jurisdictions. Taking the extraordinary text of Ruth from the Hebrew Bible, Pádraig...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

How to Bunk a PE Lesson (And Then Fall in Love with Sport)

Journalist, author, campaigner and serial PE bunker, Anna Kessel MBE talks women, sport and exercise, covering everything from body image to the gender pay gap. Anna encourages women to ditch the...
Speaker(s): Anna Kessel

Manju Malhi

Manju Malhi is a TV chef and a cookbook author who was born in England to Indian parents. She grew up in West London surrounded by Indian culture, traditions and lifestyles. However, she spent...

Come away to come home

We're just about to welcome festivalgoers to the 45th edition of Greenbelt. And once again, I find myself in reflective mode – in the midst of the inevitable and relentless rush of last-minute...

Blessed are the peacemakers?

A guest blog from our associate partner, Oasis Trust At Oasis, we challenge the assumption that ‘peace' has outgrown us, becoming an unachievable ideal: a complicated, fleeting idea that has...

Top 10 tips for doing Greenbelt on your own

A blog by Jackie Elton, CEO of Christian Connection and Single Friendly Church For many people, going to Greenbelt each year can feel like returning home to a community of family and friends. But...

Bodily Fluids. And Other Good Questions.

A guest blog from Dr Marika Rose, of our associate, the University of Winchester During one of my Philosophy, Religion and Ethics lectures last year, we were asked to rank bodily fluids in order of...