Voices For The Voiceless
Frontline musician and eco-activist Theo believes that songs and music have always played a crucial part in empowering struggles for a better world, and explores how they work to amplify our voices...
Speaker(s): Theo SimonTravelling Light: The Isenheim Altarpiece And Its Influences On Contemporary Art
Focusing on Grünewald's masterpiece, Tina considers the artist's vision as a form of travelling light, a beam of inspiration which travels through time and continues to shine a strange light on...
Speaker(s): Tina BeattieWhen Certainty Fails
Poetry seeks to find words of meaning when other words fail. Pádraig Ó Tuama's poetry explores faith, gay identity, conflict and story, and intersperses it with anecdote, warmth and humour to...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaTravelling Heavy
Christianity doesn't travel light. It is weighed down with history, much of it shameful. What would it mean to deal with the burdensome history of Christendom and imagine our way into a lighter...
Speaker(s): Marika RoseCaught In The Act
We may think we're not sexist but sometimes our instinctive reactions reveal values and behaviours at odds with what we say we believe. How can we unravel the ‘sayings and doings of...
Speaker(s): Jenny BakerThe Importance Of Elsewhere: Travelling With Literature
Andrew explores the figure of the traveller from the book of Genesis to 21st-century fiction. Join him on the road and follow the literary journeys of, among others, John Bunyan, Jack Kerouac, Annie...
Speaker(s): Andrew TateSounding and Singing
Speaker(s): Malcolm Guite
Upend the Rainstick: Poetry and the music of the unexpected
Speaker(s): Malcolm Guite
Life begins with cancer
Speaker(s): Anthony Wilson
Literature 40: looking back
Speaker(s): Andrew Tate
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