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This isn’t the sort of thing that happens to someone like you

Speaker(s): Jon McGregor

How to be a journalist in the digital age

Bidisha is a writer, critic and TV and radio broadcaster. She signed her first novel deal, with HarperCollins, at 16. She writes for the Guardian, the Financial Times, New Statesman, New Humanist and...
Speaker(s): Bidisha

Literature 40: looking back

Speaker(s): Andrew Tate

Literature 40: looking forward

Speaker(s): Andrew Tate

Life begins with cancer

Speaker(s): Anthony Wilson

What’s the purpose of marriage?

Is marriage a deep personal experience blessed by God or a tool used by the state? If it's about having kids, what about those that can't or don't want to? If it's about a lifelong...
Speaker(s): John Bell, Marika Rose

Without football I’d probably be dead

Four inspirational stories of how – with the right protection, rehab and opportunities – children can leave street life behind and say to the world “I am somebody” through the power of...

The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass

Adrian Plass, a bemused Anglican, lives in a small market town. He is a writer and speaker who has produced more than 30 books in the past 20 years.

The world is the poor’s and everything in it?

In South America the church has proved itself as a vehicle of liberation of the poor. In what ways could this inform the church in the current economic recession? Does this focus remove biblical...
Speaker(s): Margaret Hebblethwaite

What 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 Spirituality of the Long Distance Runner

An individual, private discipline that can also be conducted in large gatherings. A whole industry that markets products and solutions to its adherents. A religion, right? Yes: running. A...
Speaker(s): Jenny Baker