Tragedy or, the world of accidents
Is there any such thing as tragedy in the 21st century? What use is an old literary term worn thin by tabloid headlines about everything from sporting defeat to starvation? Is it possible to speak of...
Speaker(s): Andrew TateChristian Warriors
Should Christians join the military? Are Christian pacifists naively avoiding reality? Symon's faith inspires him to campaign against militarism; Mike's faith motivates his ministry as a Chaplain...
Palestine is still the issue…
We can't ignore it and it won't go away. The west's failure to be even-handed and abide by international law allows a dangerous sense of grievance to build - particularly in the Muslim world....
Joining the new conspirators
The global recession may be over, but the volatility isn't. This session will take you on quick tour of some of the new challenges facing us, the poor and the planet over the next decade. You're...
The Capital Problem
Credit crunch. Recession. Depression. Age of Austerity. Are we waking up to the fact that capitalism is finally broke? Is there a new, softer, kinder, gentler edition of socially responsible...
The Wounds Of Gaza
Surgeon Swee Ang returned to Gaza in early 2009, and was overwhelmed with the devastation she experienced. Her article on what she found there – The Wounds Of Gaza – proved hugely controversial....
South Africa After FIFA
After the Fifa World Cup, what are the hopes and struggles that lie ahead for South Africa in tackling the social divisions and ever widening gap between rich and poor. Born in South Africa,...
Faith in politics?
How does Christianity underpin Britain's constitution? A look at the relationship between modern laws and morality and the Christian understanding of what it is to be a human. Described by Rowan...
Buy Bye Childhood
Has the commercialisation of childhood won? To advertisers children are anything from small, absorbent consumer capitalists, to fulcrums of parent pester-power, and receptacles of prematurely adult...
The bluffer’s guide to Israel and Palestine
Nigel Varndell first went to the Occupied Palestinian Territories ten years ago and has been going back every year since. He has talked with politicians, soldiers, gunmen, religious leaders, NGO...
How do you spell hell?
Dante's Vision of Hell has more mainstages than Greenbelt, and yet, at the pit of it all, there is an image of Luficer frozen in a lake of his own tears. This talk will use poetry, story and...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaSeeking the Risen Christ
The image of a female Christ figure – the Christa – is a motif in feminist theology, and a surprisingly popular image in contemporary art. Yet most of these images depict a suffering figure,...
Speaker(s): Nicola SleeOur sound is our wound
We live in a noisy world. Where is the sound of Scripture or the voice of God? If we are listening for God's voice, how do we know if we have heard it? How can we live a different rhythm in the...
Speaker(s): Lucy WinkettPirates of the Charism
Admitting that there are strangenesses in myself, in God and in other people, how can we practically work out better ways of becoming, as one theologian put it, “the kinds of selves who live in...
Speaker(s): Kester BrewinOne and Other
From noisy neighbours to nervous political coalitions, fears about immigration, racism, fundamentalism and international terrorism – our fear of engaging “the other” is at the heart of so many...
Speaker(s): Kester Brewin