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Christian Aid: Campaign update

A blog from our partner Christian Aid As the autumn nights draw in Greenbelt 2018 is starting to seem like a distant memory for many of us. Christian Aid had an amazing time and we were delighted...

Room for More: Quaker Week leads to Quaker year!

A guest blog from Gill Sewell of our associate Quakers in Britain Did you visit the ResisTENT venue during Greenbelt 2018? If so, you'll have met some Quakers and maybe heard something about...

One body: We’re all in this together

A blog from Natalie Gibbs, our associate partner URC's Youth Moderator-elect Those of us who are fortunate enough to have been to Greenbelt Festival will understand what I mean when I say that...

G-Books: Your top pics from #gb18

A guest blog by our lovely friends at Church House Bookshop who run G-Books, our onsite book shop... We hope you've returned from Greenbelt refreshed and with somewhere drier to curl up with one...

Image and Imagination: Divine and Human Creativity

What does it mean to be made in the imagination of a Creator God, and how might our imaginations help us sound the mystery of God's love? Malcolm uses golden moments from English poetry as a...
Speaker(s): Malcolm Guite

Communion: Windrush and Carnival

When the "Windrush generation" arrived in the UK in 1948 they found themselves excluded from much of the social and economic life of Britain. Many experienced horrific racial violence and injustice....
Speaker(s): Winnie Varghese, Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir, Chine McDonald

The Gender Agenda

With Steve Chalke, Claire Birkenshaw and Toby Draper. This panel discussion will explore the lived experience of transgender people and consider the theology of gender identity, reassignment and...
Speaker(s): Steve Chalke

Life at the intersections: What is intersectionality and why is it important? 

Intersectionality has become a buzzword, but what does it mean in practice? Hear a panel of people living life at the intersections share about how having intersecting marginalised identities impacts...
Speaker(s): Shani Dhanda, Broderick Greer

But I’m not racist! Am I?

Winnie Varghese, Broderick Greer, Prof. Anthony Reddie At the end of a festival with more programming around racial inclusion and racial justice than ever, a panel of contributors of colour talk...
Speaker(s): Winnie Varghese, Broderick Greer, Anthony Reddie, Chine McDonald

Anti-semitism – where does it begin and end?

Rabbi Herschel Gluck, Lynne Segal, Daphna Baram, Robert Cohen. A panel conversation with four Jewish contributors sharing their thoughts on the fine lines between anti-semitism and silencing -...
Speaker(s): Lynne Segal, Rabbi Herschel Gluck, Daphna Baram, Robert Cohen

Nothing but the Truth

A freelance filmmaker, studio anchor, and correspondent, Sue worked for 12 years with Jon Snow on Channel 4 News. She then worked with Al Jazeera English in Afghanistan, before the Arab Uprisings...
Speaker(s): Sue Turton

Jews And Muslims Taking The Peace

After being involved in back-channel peace talks with Bosnians, Iraquis, Kosovans, Iranians and Sudanese, Rabbi Gluck turns his attention to the situation in his own backyard here in the U.K., to...
Speaker(s): Rabbi Herschel Gluck

Borders and Belonging

Brexit has resurfaced questions of British-Irish relations, particularly around the border between the two Irish jurisdictions. Taking the extraordinary text of Ruth from the Hebrew Bible, Pádraig...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

Life & Love, Faith & Doubt

Some days we feel completely at home, other days like strangers on earth. What if how we live matters more than what we believe? Come and catch some lifelines thrown our way by poets and prophets,...
Speaker(s): Malcolm Doney, Martin Wroe

Diversify six degrees of integration

What if actively seeking the unfamiliar was proven to be the key to a brighter future - both personally and for society at large? June considers the creation and negative impact of stereotypes, and...
Speaker(s): June Sarpong