Literature 40: looking back
Speaker(s): Andrew Tate
Life begins with cancer
Speaker(s): Anthony Wilson
What’s the purpose of marriage?
Is marriage a deep personal experience blessed by God or a tool used by the state? If it's about having kids, what about those that can't or don't want to? If it's about a lifelong...
Speaker(s): John Bell, Marika RoseWhat Women (In The Church) Want
What do women want for a church that has been run by men? How will things change as they become bishops? What would the Christian tradition look like if the patriarchs hadn't eclipsed the...
Speaker(s): Vicky Beeching, Rachel Mann, Lucy Winkett, Marika RoseThe Spirituality of the Long Distance Runner
An individual, private discipline that can also be conducted in large gatherings. A whole industry that markets products and solutions to its adherents. A religion, right? Yes: running. A...
Speaker(s): Jenny BakerLife Begins…when All are welcomed!
Lucy Winkett will chair a panel including John Bell, David Stephenson, Hazel Bradley and Richard Keagan-Bull to explore their own experiences of the challenge and gift of people with learning...
Speaker(s): Lucy WinkettRadical Theology: A Critical Discussion?
The radical theology movement is one that draws on new philosophical movements and is willing to embrace positions such as the death of God. But is this any more than an intellectual trip for a few...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin, Lucy Winkett, Marika Rose“The Hand that Made us is Divine” – an introduction to the music of Benjamin Britten
2013 marks the centenary of the birth of composer Benjamin Britten. Although Britten had an ambivalent relationship with organised religion, he often drew on the Christian heritage for inspiration....
Being real in a virtual world
What does it mean to truly be an individual in the digital age? Do Twitter and Facebook make us more ourselves? Does social media plunge us into an existential crisis, or drown out our need for one?...
Speaker(s): Vicky BeechingDazzling Darkness – Being a trans, lesbian priest in the Church today
Dazzling Darkness – Being a trans, lesbian priest in the Church today Exploring her experience of changing sex, of being lesbian and chronically ill, and of being a Church of England priest, Rachel...
Speaker(s): Rachel MannCan white middle class people be radical?
Radical theology situates itself outside of the church and alongside those who are excluded from and rejected by society. So what does it mean for Christians to engage with radical theology? And how...
Speaker(s): Marika RoseWhen Politics Fail: The grassroots movement that will bring peace to Israel and Palestine
The peace process to resolve the Israel/Palestine situation is not working. Might a global, grassroots movement accomplish what the political process has not? A look to the Gospels to provide the...
My Journey Towards Life In All Its Fullness So Far
Dave Andrews shares his own personal journey of seeking to live life “in all its fullness”; learning to share life with others in the Dilaram community in Afghanistan; and learning to live life...
Speaker(s): Dave AndrewsA Conversation About Community And Mission
Dave Andrews will discuss what forms of community are more helpful for mission; weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of neomonasticism as a model for community mission; and wonder out loud about...
Speaker(s): Dave AndrewsMy Magical Mystical Way Of Engaging My World
An approach to engaging a wide world of diverse groups of people, using some of Dave Andrews' amazing stories of the kinds of transformation that can occur in the chaos, mess and minutiae of...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews