A Woman’s Place is in the House… of Bishops
It's time to finish what we started and consecrate women as bishops in the Church of England. But how should we navigate these tricky waters? What will be the fall out? Joy has been working under the...
Theologian as Poet: Poet as Theologian
Brian explores, and reads from, some poems by C.S.Lewis and Wendell Berry. Brian McLaren has been active in networking church planters and pastors since the mid 1980s. His first book, The Church on...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenThe Complex Christ: Signs of Emergence in the Urban Church
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin
Four Quartets and the Spirituality of Regeneration
‘The point of intersection of the timeless with time, is an occupation for the saint.' How the poetry of TS Eliot shows that community regeneration is spiritual work. Alastair McIntosh grew up...
Speaker(s): Alastair McIntoshRhythm of the Saints
Exploring the traditional cycle of the Church year, from Advent to Lent, Easter to Ordinary Time, Maggi asks what contemporary relevance it has for emerging spirituality. Maggi Dawn is a former...
The greatest environmentalists in history
What on earth has heaven got to do with earth? John sets out why we need another. Apostles Creed, and why creationism misses the point. John Smith is the founding director of Concern Australia and...
How do you spell hell?
Dante's Vision of Hell has more mainstages than Greenbelt, and yet, at the pit of it all, there is an image of Luficer frozen in a lake of his own tears. This talk will use poetry, story and...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaThe Secret Life Of Human Beings
As human beings we soon realise that we are not one, but many. How do we live with the different parts within us: the judgement, lust, rage, and depression as well as the joy, passion and empathy?...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliCongregational Monasticism
Karen Ward is the urban abbess of Church of the Apostles, Seattle, which meets in the Fremont Abbey, an arts and community abbey for the Fremont neighbourhood of Seattle. An exploration of how new...
A poetic theology of the human
Using poetry and song that celebrate the ordinary things of our days, this event tells stories of pain, stories of hope and songs of lament and life. Pádraig Ó Tuama is the unofficial poet of...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaA theology of the human
Using an Ignatian approach to the Gospel, Pádraig looks at how Jesus interacted with people of difference, and considers current applications of this, with rising stereotypes regarding religious...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaWe are strange: God is stranger
Bookshops are full of argument and counter-argument between atheists and Christians, but what could theology actually learn from a ‘new physics' that has given us parallel universes, multiple...
Speaker(s): Kester BrewinA plea for Christian piracy
They make corporations' blood boil, and children's pulses race: what is it about pirates that remains perennially fascinating, and what possibly could our faith learn from Somalian bandits, 17th...
Speaker(s): Kester BrewinCan Obama pull off a two-state solution?
Many peace activists in Palestine/Israel believe that the two-state solution is gone, buried under the massive Israeli settlement blocs. Obama's last-ditch effort seems the last chance. What...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperChanging something so that everything remains the same
The church is awash with expressions of faith that appear to challenge church life. But what if these ‘new forms' are actually ensuring that nothing really changes? Peter explores the possibility...