Rediscovering Community
Why did it disappear and how do we find it again? A provocative mini-manifesto with debate and discussion on the notion of community. Tobias Jones is the author of "The Dark Heart of Italy" and...
Speaker(s): Tobias JonesIs it too late to stop climate change?
Rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, apocalyptic weather forecasters ... maybe this time we've really gone too far and it's too late to stop climate change. Not so says Tony, and here's how and...
Jesus in Technicolor: introducing change
In our post-Christian age, Christians are once aga in trying to influence society from the margins. Using film clips, this talk will explore the potential for change in our churches and the wider...
The Beautiful Life: Ten new commandments
When we become disconnected from who we are it is a long Journey home. Simon offers ten new commandments to help us back to a beautiful life. Simon Parke was a priest in the Church of England but...
Speaker(s): Simon ParkeAn Interview with Sister Frances Dominica (hosted by Jonathan Mayo)
The women and men of the old orders walked with God into some of the places we never wanted to experience or imagine. Deserts. War . zones. Slums. Sister Francis has continued this tradition by...
How do children cope with death & greavement
We used to opt out of facing children's distress by saying 'children are resilient' but we realise now that children's grief is as profound and idiosyncratic as adult grief. Sister Frances draws on...
Extreme poverty and the MDGs
A fact-filled but easy listening briefing on global poverty and the millennium development goals. Have we been able to reduce AIDS and put more children in school? Where are we with malnutrition? Is...
Slavery today join the fight for freedom
Slavery has not gone away. Contemporary forms affect at least 12.3 million men, women and children in the 21st century. What can the campaign against the Atlantic slave trade teach us as we seek to...
Pie in the Sky – Can Believing in Heaven Change the World Now
Some Christians still look upwards like the disciples did when Jesus ascended. What did heaven mean at the time of the New Testament and how do we translate those beliefs into our modern...
Speaker(s): Paula GooderFaith With or Without God – Towards a Heretical Orthodoxy
Faith with/without God: towards a heretical othodoxy Today we witness a passionate debate between those who would claim that Christianity is true and those who would claim that it is not. Pete will...
Embodied mysticism: what does it mean to be
An idiosyncratic and improvisational journey through conver sation and percussive performance into knowing and not knowing, being and doing, silence and sound. Philip Roderick is a priest and...
Confront or walk away?
A look at how Christians can deal with conflict. Raj will draw on cases he is involved in and get people think ing about how they may cope with, resolve or even utilise situations they find...
More than eyes can see; a 9 month journey
Rhidian will be presenting thoughts and pictures from the incredible journey th at took him, his wife and two children to Africa, India and China. Rhidian Brook is a writer and broadcaster. His...
Stars and Angels
How are we to understand the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke? As fairy stories, that we can safely discard, as factual accounts, or as Gospel Truth? Morna Hooker is a retired Cambridge...
Making UK poverty history
Make Poverty History helped raise our aspirations to make global poverty history, but while this battle goes on is it time to focus our at tention on poverty much closer to home? Niall Cooper is the...
Speaker(s): Niall Cooper