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Scars Across Humanity

Every three seconds, a young girl is married without consenting, somewhere across the world to a much older man. Along with female infanticide, domestic abuse, prostitution, rape and honour killings,...
Speaker(s): Elaine Storkey

Inter Act: Can Video Games be Spiritual?

Video games need interpretation like all art, but there are few places for grown-ups to find guidance on anything more than the latest way to shoot people in the head. Practical advice on where to...
Speaker(s): Andy Robertson

Satish Kumar in Conversation

Hear the amazing story of a one-time-monk who gave up everything to walk around the world for peace in the 1960s, eventually settling in Devon and helping to establish the Schumacher College as well...
Speaker(s): Satish Kumar

Inter Act: What we talk about when we talk about video games

Millions of pounds are spent creating video games, yet we speak meaningfully about them so falteringly. Can we start seeing games as profound and spiritual, while not sidestepping their violent...
Speaker(s): Andy Robertson

Student Christianity? – Is there another way?

Student Christianity is still dominated by theologically conservative groups and big ‘student churches', but research suggests this is not meeting the needs of Christian students. The small local...
Speaker(s): Student Christian Movement

Does The Way We Talk About Religious Persecution Matter?

Christians in places like Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria are reporting a rise in religious persecution, in the wider context of Islamic extremism and anti-Islamic attacks in Europe. How can the church...
Speaker(s): Grace Pengelly

Faithfully Feminist: Why we stay

It is a common question asked of women who claim a feminist identity, membership in a particular religious tradition, and practise their faith in spite of gendered challenges. Hear the stories of...
Speaker(s): Julie Siddiqi, Catriona Robertson

Grace Wroe

Grace grew up at Greenbelt. Since graduating in social policy from Bristol University she has worked in a centre for vulnerable women in King's Cross, London and is now a Restorative Justice...

Christina Welch

Christina is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Winchester, where she leads the masters degree in Death, Religion and Culture; a distance learning programme. A Religious Studies scholar,...

Arriving + Departing Greenbelt 2017

We know you're getting excited about Greenbelt. We guess you're probably planning and packing ?, making lists and devising menus ?, so we've a few bits of information to help you get onto site...

The Hub : For ALL your campsite needs

As you make your way down into the campsite, you'll find The Hub just before the entrance to the Festival Village on the right-hand side.  The Hub is home for all your campsite needs. Whether it's...

Body Shock

With so much focus on photoshopped body images, is it any wonder that we don't think we make the grade? How can we grow a healthy, relaxed attitude to the way we look as part of who we are?
Speaker(s): Siobhan O'Loughlin, Joanna Jepson, Steve Chalke, Judy Reith

Movements of the Spirit

How come so many of us lost confidence in political parties? Don't believe the system represents us? Aren't convinced our vote will change anything? But how come so many of us think new, looser,...
Speaker(s): Jeff Halper, Dave Andrews, Maya Evans

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...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

Angels and Cyborgs

As the Christian vision of a new heaven and a new earth gets displaced by science fiction imaginings of technological utopias, what does this shift from angels to cyborgs tell us about being human in...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose