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Three Models of Moral Health: Conscience Before, During and After War

The influence of Church history and practice can help congregations explore how to understand the moral formation needed to prepare soldiers for combat, and how to reintegrate combat-traumatised...

School of Life: What kind of parent do you want to be?

Speaker(s): Judy Reith

Solitude

What's the difference between solitude and loneliness? How is solitude possible in my busy life and why would I want it anyway? Blaise Pascal observed, “All men's miseries derive from not being...
Speaker(s): Simon Parke

Giving up God for Lent: A New Kind of Christian is A New Kind of Atheist

Atheism for Lent is a six-week course designed to enrich our faith by acknowledging our experiences of God's absence. Find out what the course is all about, how it works, and why it suggests that a...

Paradise for People with Dementia

Paradise for people with dementia is to be treated as human beings. The session explains dementia and outlines the dominant approach: ‘person-centred care'. While it is valuable Christians need...

Paradise Postponed

If church is meant to be a foretaste of paradise, what is it like when you feel you're in Hell? Three women who have suffered, and continue to suffer mental health difficulties speak on church,...

School of Life: How to Find Fulfilling Work

Speaker(s): Roman Krznaric

Blessings and Rituals for the 21st century

People are choosing to bless babies and hold weddings and funerals without the church, in a way that seems less hypocritical, more celebratory and more in tune with their lives. How can the church...

Finding Paradise: The personal journey of a right-wing religious extremist

Hear the story of someone raised with Christian Zionist end-time theology and an ultra-literal interpretation of scripture. Someone who has been saved from a damaging theology, which was arrogant,...

First Steps Through The Menopause

A beginner's guide to the menopause: what it is, what to expect, and what help is available from conventional medicine, complementary therapies and self-help/lifestyle changes. First Steps Through...

Forgiveness, Justice and the elusive Quest for Reconciliation.

The wounds of history which result from war and conflict run deep. They feed and draw from the deep alienation at the heart of our fractured communities. Is there a better world where those who are...

72 Virgins and all that: The Search for Muslim Paradise

The years after the 9/11 attacks have spawned an army of selfstyled Islam experts. They seem to have all the answers about what makes Muslims tick and relish telling us how Muslim men salivate over...
Speaker(s): Abdul-Rehman Malik

Palestine/Israel: Moving from separation and exclusion to sharing and equality

Palestine/Israel is in desperate need of a bold vision that challenges a status quo shaped by ethno-religious exclusivity and exclusion. After facing hard facts about the reality on the ground, comes...

The Beauty in the Beast

Hugh Warwick once argued that the hedgehog was the most important creature on the planet but he was beset by others who claimed that their own particular species were just as significant. So began a...