Faith in a Failing Church
With churches diminishing in size, is it now time to close the doors for good and wait for God to do something different? Or is the desert time part of God's purpose? John Bell was born within...
Speaker(s): John BellFields of Praise – God and the Great Sporting Liturgies
Since Tertullian, religious imagery and sport have never been far away: the stadium shrines, devoted supporters, teams that have experienced resurrection and athletes who've achieved immortality....
Comedy in the Bible
The Bible is not generally considered a funny book. In fact, much comedy has been derived from its seriousness. And yet the Bible contains Whitehall farces, knock-about slapstick, wordplay, and...
Speaker(s): James CaryMind the Gap
Does inequality really matter? What could be a response? Is the Bible silent on the matter? Answers with examples from an inner city community in Liverpool. Ann and Jane have been working together...
The Strange But True Story Of Tawfiq Salsaa’s Walled Nativity
When Amos Trust marketed the Walled Nativity last December, it led to international press coverage, hundreds of orders, vitriolic emails and 38,000 hits on YouTube. Garth Hewitt tells the story of...
Speaker(s): Garth HewittWhat The Emerging Church And The Desert Mothers And Fathers Have In Common
Some emerging churches have reappropriated an ancient Trinitarian understanding of the faith as a model for church and spirituality in the 21st century. Could this understanding help us be and do...
Speaker(s): Ian MobsbyCrazy for God – 1
Growing up in a Christian community with L'Abri: a personal reflection. Frank Schaeffer It's embarrassing enough having any parent at all, but when your dad is regularly hailed as one of the...
Crazy for God – 2
The religious right and how I helped found it. Frank Schaeffer It's embarrassing enough having any parent at all, but when your dad is regularly hailed as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of...
Justice and mercy in a consumer world: thinking locally, acting globally
Justice and mercy are becoming commodities to be bought and sold; relationship and compassion are being squeezed out. How do we make real Jesus's call to love God and others and not be ripped off...
Irish soul
Once known as the ‘land of saints and scholars', Ireland is now in danger of being reduced to a ‘land of stocks and shares'. What does the Irish soul look like now, and what might its gifts...
Speaker(s): Gareth HigginsWhy Films Can Make Us Kill Each Other Or Save The World
Using clips from films such as Jaws, Secrets and Lies, Rocky and The Big Lebowski Gareth Higgins, author of How Movies Helped Save My Soul, brings his experience in Northern Ireland to bear on...
Speaker(s): Gareth HigginsThe power of the put on: questioning media
Mainstream media is carefully designed and redesigned to hold our attention by any means necessary. But more the more democratic forms of blogging, music and poetry afford us a landscape in which our...
The Party’s Over
The party's over Membership of political parties is falling rapidly. Is this a cause for alarm or celebration? ‘Counting ourselves out' can be a prophetic option for Christians in the UK today,...
Is Poverty Being Made History?
Douglas Alexander answers your questions on the UK's role in the global campaign to end poverty... and on what you can do to make a difference. Douglas Alexander MP was delivering Christian Aid...
Why politics matter
Mainstream politics is under fire as never before with people questioning its claim to be an effective tool for changing our world. The traditional political parties, it is claimed, are all much of a...