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On Guerrilla Gardening

You could almost describe Richard Reynolds as the Banksy of the gardening world – just replace the spray can with a trowel. He (literally) wrote the book on guerilla gardening. Be inspired to sow a...
Speaker(s): Richard Reynolds

Thou shalt not be overcome: LGBT people, our allies, and the Christian church

Human sexuality is a subject that fascinates and preoccupies the Church. What are the implications of this on LGBT people and our friends and families who are often witness to, but rarely...
Speaker(s): Ruth Hunt

Jesus Crucified Himself, So You Don’t Have To

How do we spend ourselves on behalf of the poor and hungry without needing to check in to The Priory? Sara Hyde is gradually learning the truth that she knows the saviour of the world, but isn't...
Speaker(s): Sara Hyde

The Gospel According to William

Suppose we had no Bible. Suppose we only had the works of Shakespeare. Would we be able to find our way to Christian salvation from what we discover in his 38 plays and 156 poems? Peter Graystone is...
Speaker(s): Peter Graystone

Judas: Who Was He Really?

Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot. An essential but doomed character in the Passion narrative, and thus the entire story of Christianity, was Judas...
Speaker(s): Peter Stanford

Credo and Capes: What Comic Books Can Tell Us About Our Religious Lives

From superhero comics (including the first Muslim woman Marvel superhero) to complex graphical novels, comic books open up the possibility of imagined journeys to encounter other religions, cultures...
Speaker(s): Rae Hancock

Glimpsing Glory: Seeing God in the Everyday

In this talk we will be celebrating all things ordinary – and reflecting on how the God we encounter in the Bible is most often to be glimpsed in the most ordinary of situations, with the most...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

Pope Francis: the Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism

Paul Vallely lays bare the intrigue and in-fighting surrounding Francis's attempt to cleanse the scandal-ridden Vatican Bank, reveals what's preventing the church from tackling the sex abuse...
Speaker(s): Paul Vallely

Curiosity: Better for Christians than for Cats?

Curiosity is not always considered a virtue. Yet without it, Moses would not have turned aside at the burning bush and RS Thomas, in The Bright Field, says he missed his ‘pearl of great price'. A...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

Animism: Common Ground where Christians and Pagans Meet

‘Animists understand the world is filled with persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is lived in relationship with others' (Graham Harvey). Noel Moules believes this is also...
Speaker(s): Noel Moules

Jesus and Wild Nature

While comfortable in the city, Jesus was a wilderness person. In this talk we reflect on his call to a deep personal connection with the sacredness of all things – and what it means in practical...
Speaker(s): Noel Moules

Hello to the World

Pádraig Ó Tuama has spent 20 years trying to say hello. Join him for this session of prose and poetry as he reads from his latest book and continues greeting what is beautiful, what is true and...

Albion Awakes? Re-Earthing Britain

Faced with a rising tide of psychological unease and stress, and an ongoing ecological crisis, it is time to fix the disconnect between people and nature in the UK. Is re-localising food and energy...
Speaker(s): Michael Northcott

Writing Collaboratively: The Teenage Prayer Experiment

Miranda and her teenage son Noah began The Teenage Prayer Experiment by blogging. So what happens when you challenge young people to experiment with prayer, and to write up their results as a...

Mona Siddiqui in conversation with Cole Moreton

One of the foremost Western Muslim scholars, Mona Siddiqui talks about her life journey as a Muslim woman academic in Britain. A much-celebrated voice in our culture, she applies a uniquely probing...
Speaker(s): Mona Siddiqui, Cole Moreton