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 TuamaThe 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...
A 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 TuamaIsrael/Palestine: Health rights under occupation
How the Israeli occupation uses health as an instrument of control, with recent case studies, Miri explores action for change and ways of mobilisation. Miri Weingarten works for Physicians for Human...
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt
To explore the causes of climate change we have to go back to the time of Socrates. And is the only way to address it now to develop a Christian concept of time and space? Mike Edwards is CAFOD's...
Could the road from Gaza, Nablus and Fallujah lead to your door?
The occupied Palestinian territories have a significance for Israel beyond the religious and national: Israel's close co-operation with security firms and police forces in Britain bring closer to...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperIsrael/Palestine: How will a peaceful& just co-existence become a reality
Jewish, Muslim and Christian voices from the Holy Land look at options for a just peace and evaluate their chances for success.
Abandoning Gaza: Israel’s seige and international responsibility
Abandoning Gaza: Israel's siege and international responsibility Israel imposed a siege on Gaza in 2007, resulting in a humanitarian crisis which intensified during Operation Cast Lead, Israel's...