On Not Being Saved
Stanley Hauerwas will read from his recently published memoir, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir, focussing on the sections that describe his inability to “get himself saved” and how this...
How I became a theologian
In this session Stanley will focus on the sections of his memoir that describe his formation as a Christian theologian. In 2001 Time magazine named him “America's Best Theologian”. He responded...
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....
Butchering Community
“The Butchers” bought a lamb at Smithfield market, butchered it on their dining table, cooked and served it for lunch, sharing with friends each Sunday of Lent. Come and hear what motivated the...
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,...
The Art of Looking Sideways at Christ
St. Augustine said that “If you understand it, then it is not God”. All religious language is necessarily metaphorical, which has a much better chance of leading us toward the mystical and...
Breaking the Chains of Injustice
Sami Awad is a Palestinian Christian living in Bethlehem. He is the executive director of Holy Land Trust, which seeks to empower the Palestinian community to develop spiritual, pragmatic and...
Robin Hood Tax
The Robin Hood Tax campaign is calling for a tiny tax on financial transactions to tackle poverty and climate change. Critics argue this is just another form of aid, maintaining power in global...
Conversations with four mystics
The differing spiritualities of Meister Eckhart (13th-century German mystic), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes and spiritualism), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace and Non- Violence) and Vincent Van...
Speaker(s): Simon ParkeA new South African spirituality of liberation
What does liberation theology mean in South Africa today? How does it work? Exploring a theological framework, in a new country post apartheid. Born in South Africa, Solomuza Mabuza is a pastor,...
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...
The art of looking sideways at the Bible snippet
Language by gift and necessity is dualistic (distinguishing this from that) and metaphorical (it is pointing to the thing, but is not itself the thing). Jesus understood that much better than we do,...
The Art of Looking Sideways at the Church
Is there a “wisdom way” of looking at the support system that we call the church? How can we love it and not idolise it, learn from it and not ignore it, critique it without rejecting it, be a...
The art of looking sideways at us
The mind thinks it can look at things directly and understand them – which is a very big assumption.There is another way of knowing ourselves and one another that Fr Richard Rohr calls “non dual...
Praying through icons
Richard Chartres offers an illustrated exploration into the origin of the icon in the Christian tradition and invites you to consider them as a way into faith today. Richard Chartes became Bishop of...