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With Owen Jones, Kieran Smith (Director of Benefits Street) and Lily Caprani (The Children's Society) Chaired by Rhian Roberts When Benefits Street hit our screens it provoked responses from...
Speaker(s): Owen JonesThe Future Of Campaigning
With Mpho Tutu, Hannah Lownsbrough, Al Roxburgh (Christian Aid) and Tom Baker (BOND) Chaired by Ben Hewitt Defending funding for rural schools in Thailand. Stopping the US President fast-track...
Speaker(s): Ben Hewitt, Hannah Lownsbrough, Mpho Tutu, Alasdair Roxburgh, Tom BakerLifting The Weight Of Debt
With Tim Jones, Heather Roy, Michael Northcott and Katie Curtis Chaired by Kit Beazley 1 in 5 in the UK are living with serious debt. Across Europe public services are being slashed to pay for bank...
Speaker(s): Michael Northcott, Kit Beazley, Tim JonesVoices 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 TuamaWhat 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): Lucy Winkett, Vicky Beeching, Marika Rose, Rachel Mann“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 MannWhen 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 AndrewsWriting A Path Through Palestine
Bidisha's fourth book Beyond the Wall: Writing a Path Through Palestine documented her trip through the West Bank. In this talk she will let us in on what she saw in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nablus,...
Speaker(s): Bidisha