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 BrewinThe uprooting of a nation Palestine
Known to Israelis as the War of Independence, the 1948 war is known to the Palestinians as The Nakba or Catastrophe. The creation of the Israeli state meant a million people were expelled from homes...
The Be-attitude Revolution
The Beatitudes describe the kingdom of heaven as a place where the meek inherit the earth, the merciful receive mercy, those who hunger for justice are fulfilled and peacemakers walk proudly as sons...
Speaker(s): Dave AndrewsBe the Change Campaign
The exciting story of Dave and Ange Andrews' campaign for us to be the change we want to see in the world (wecan.be). Discover how you can be part of it. Dave and Ange Andrews have lived and...
Speaker(s): Dave AndrewsScrap Plan A, try Plan Be
Our world is in trouble because in a crisis we resort to Plan A, treating others as they treat us. Dave and Ange Andrews explore how we can reverse this cycle by trying Plan Be, treating others as we...
Speaker(s): Dave AndrewsLobbying Parliment on Israel/Palestine
Many people in Britain agree that the suffering and injustice being inflicted on the Palestinian people is deeply wrong, yet the political elite follows a US policy that colludes in Israel's...
How not to believe
How not to believe... and how to have faith. Can you be part of a faith tradition without assenting to it all? Be outside faith but still believe? Talking faith, doubt and uncertainty blues with...
Speaker(s): Brian DraperA poetic theology of the human
Using poetry and song that celebrate the ordinary things of our days, this event tells stories of pain, stories of hope and songs of lament and life. Pádraig Ó Tuama is the unofficial poet of...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaA theology of the human
Using an Ignatian approach to the Gospel, Pádraig looks at how Jesus interacted with people of difference, and considers current applications of this, with rising stereotypes regarding religious...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama